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Grades 3–8 / 978-02965-8 / 2010 / 216pp / $22.50
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Katherine Bomer
Hidden GemsNaming and Teaching from theBrilliance in Every Student’sWriting
“Katherine Bomer willtransform the way weread student work.”— Thomas Newkirk
“�My�hope�is�that�as�teachers�we�can�respond�to�all�students’�writing�with�astonished,�appreciative,�awe-struck�eyes.”
— K at h e r i n e B o m e r
If�you’re� like�Katherine�Bomer,
you’ve grown weary of searching
for what’s wrong in student
writing, and you want better ways
to respond to pieces whose beauty
and intelligence doesn’t shine on
the first read. Now she shares how
she learned instead to search—
sometimes near the surface,
sometimes deep beneath—to
find, celebrate, and teach from
writers’ Hidden Gems.
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In�this�elegant,� �
practical�resource,�
Katherine�Bomer�shares�
how�to�search�students’�
writing—sometimes�near�
the�surface,� sometimes�
deep�beneath—to�find,�
celebrate,�and�teach�from�
writers’�Hidden Gems.
Katherine Bomer
Hidden GemsNaming and Teaching from theBrilliance in Every Student’sWriting
“Katherine Bomer willtransform the way weread student work.”— Thomas Newkirk Katherine Bomer is both a gifted
writer and a gifted teacher of writing. She
uses her writers’ eye to focus on craft not just
an instructional goal but as an instructional
tool that helps writers grow well beyond
the range of most assessments. “You don’t
get true, fire-in-the-belly energy for writing
because you fear getting a bad grade,” she
writes in Hidden Gems, “but because you
have something to say and your own way of
saying it.” An internationally known consultant
and frequent keynote speaker, Katherine
began her consulting career with the Teachers
College Reading and Writing Project. In
addition to Writing a Life, she is coauthor of
the Heinemann title For a Better World and
delivers on-site PD
through Heinemann
Professional
Development
Services.
Through protocols, sample assessments, and demonstrations
with student work, you’ll learn to bring the brilliant facets of
your writers to the surface as you:
◆ spot stylistic gems in unconventional or vernacular
writing
◆ uncover content and organizational gems even when
content isn’t engaging or significant
◆ respond by naming and celebrating writers’ gems
instead of hunting for mistakes
◆ give lasting compliments using the inspiring language
of published writers so students keep writing, revising,
and polishing their gems.
Join Katherine Bomer, “read young, unseasoned writers the
way we would Jimmy Santiago Baca or Naomi Shihab Nye,
and notice the quirky brilliance, the heartbreaking honesty,
and surreal beauty in even the slightest writing.” You’ll
discover that students perform remarkable feats in the craft
of writing, and that you can achieve remarkable results with
them when you uncover their Hidden Gems.