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Welcome
to the Home of Barry
Lane
and Discover
Writing
Barry
Lane
is an internationally known author and speaker, who travels the world sharing
his unique style of motivating students to become
better writers. This
site is your gateway to a host of teaching aids. This is also the home of
Discover
Writing Press, which
produces the books and audio and visual tapes and CDs by Barry Lane
and other
fine writers which support the classrooms of writing teachers worldwide.
Our mission is to
help teachers as they help their students
Discover
Writing!
But
How Do You Teach Writing?
A Simple Guide for All Teachers
240
pages with 100 illustrations, cartoons and reproducible forms.
Here
is authentic writing instruction that taps into the heart and soul
of teacher and their students to honor self expression and thinking.
Three sections include easy ideas to get you started, inspired
teaching across genres, and advice for assessment and teaching
revision, grammar, and punctuation.
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The
Giggly Guide to Grammar
by Cathy Campbell
featuring
Student
Edition (Textbook) and
Deluxe Teacher's Edition with CD
Shel
Silverstein meets Strunk & White...
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Sparklers
With CD
High
Scoring Test Essays and What they Teach us.
(160 pages)
Gretchen
Bernabei and Judy Reimer have collected high scoring student test
essays from 4th, 7th and 10 grades. Read these essays as models
for your students and try the 30 lessons Gretchen and Judy have
included to show your students that the best writing is not
formulaic and the best writers have something to say. |
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NEW!
Need ideas to get kids moving and learning? Check out a nine
minute QuickTime preview of Carol Glynn's new video course in kinesthetic
learning, Carol Out of the Box.
To let Carol out of the Box click HERE. (16 meg
file)
 To
download the QuickTime Viewer, click HERE
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51
Wacky We-search Reports
will teach you how to hunt for the best facts and turn them
into cartoons, parody performances, jokes, wacky poetry and much,
much more. And a
We-search report is one that you do with friends, so you won’t
ever feel alone again. |
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If you've come here
to purchase one of the many interesting items in our secure store, you may
click HERE now and browse our interesting collection of
books, CDs and other interesting classroom support items such as puppets and
book butterflies. |
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If you've come here
to register for one of our forthcoming conferences, you may click HERE
now to learn which cities and dates Barry and his other fine presenters
will be available. |
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To
bring Barry or one of his Discover Writing Team to your school, please
click HERE. |
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We receive questions from teachers with challenging problems in their classrooms, so
our ASK BARRY advice column is here to help. Just
click HERE. |
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Fresh out of
ideas?
Try our TEACHER CENTER, where you can find a host of
interesting lesson plans. |
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Do you
have a favorite teacher you would like to recognize? Give her a Miss
Foley Award . Send Barry an EMAIL
with one or two lines about why you love this teacher! |
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This site isn't
just for teachers. We frequently run Student Contests where
students can share their writing with us. Students ( and teachers ) can check it out by clicking HERE |
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Barry travels a
lot, and always tries to take some photos of other students and teachers
around the world. One of his more interesting foreign visits can be
seen by clicking HERE. |
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communicate with us, we want you to know we respect your privacy. Please review our Privacy Policy. |
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This is a site
which is constantly growing, so we've provided a SITE MAP in case
you get lost. You can click on it at any time to find out exactly
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Last, but not
least, there's a CONTACT link on every page. |
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How
to Contact Us:
Phone:
1-800-613-8055 8-5 EST
Fax: 24 hours at 1-802-897-2084
Snail
Mail:
DISCOVER WRITING COMPANY
PO Box 264
Shoreham, VT 05770
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