Topic: Rebekah O'Dell

Marilyn Pryle and Rebekah O’Dell explain how reading responses can be an effective tool for helping students to engage meaningfully with a text.

Heinemann is a proud sponsor of the 2021 Literacy for All Conference. Check out this blog for a complete list of the Heinemann authors presenting this year.

Mentor texts from a variety of high-interest sources along with diverse authors can be a real game changer in secondary writing classrooms. 

Watch a FREE planning video and download a FREE study guide from Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O’Dell, coauthors of A Teacher’s Guide to Mentor Texts.

It helps to start small. A beautifully crafted sentence is filled with interesting decisions the writer has made, and there’s so much to learn.

We can prepare our students for academic writing tasks when we invite them to make the kind of writing real writers make.

How to Make Your Writing Workshop Thrive - Whether In Person, Online, or a Blend of Both by Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O'Dell.

...there is no better way to honor your teaching and increase the repertoire of what you can offer students.

Today on the Heinemann Podcast, a special read aloud from Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O’Dell, co-authors of Beyond Literary Analysis: Teaching Students to Write with Passion and Authority About Any Text.

In this video, Allison & Rebekah explain how simple it can be to get the creative juices flowing with inspiration from 'analysis in the wild'.

This book is for teachers who want to revive the art of analytical writing in their classrooms—from teachers of middle-grade writers who are making their first foray into analytical writing to teachers of experienced twelfth-grade writers who are looking ahead to college where their professors will expect much, much more.

In this video, Allison & Rebekah explain how they've shied away from the bread and butter literary analysis approach, and instead push their students to write with passion and authority about topics they care about, effectively bringing their whole selves to their writing.

Even the most disengaged student is passionate about something, and we can leverage that passion to help nurture their writing life.

Allison Marchetti & Rebekah O'Dell firmly believe that analysis is everywhere, and your students can write it.

By introducing a new definition of text, usher out the dreaded five-paragraph essay and introduce something entirely different that students will want to write.

If you’re tired of boring literary analysis assignments, Beyond Literary Analysis, show how students can write authentic arguments based on their own interests.

Out of the dark tunnel of boring literary analysis assignments, they lead you into a world where students learn to write fresh, compelling, authentic arguments based on their own unique interests.

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