is hosting a great "Linky Party" about your must have Go-To book for teaching. What a perfect topic?! My must have book that has changed my teaching is "Launching the Writer's Workshop (Primary Grades) by Kristina Smekens and Linda Schmidt. (The new revised primary book is now blue and the upper grades 3-12 book is yellow.) 
This book does an amazing job in giving you everything you need to successfully implement Writer's Workshop. Management, ideas, anchor (example papers), mini lessons, cd with reproducibles, and more! It has truly changed my life! I now feel like I am really teaching writing (not just having the kids write). My entire district has adopted this book as our "bible" for writing. We have Kristina (the author) or her sidekick Courtney come and present to our school each year on writing and the six-traits. We could not be happier with them, they have done an amazing job at teaching us teachers how to teach writing effectively and painlessly. Her website contains lots of great ideas too in the "Idea library." Her conferences are well worth your your time if you ever have a chance to attend. http://www.smekenseducation.com/
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