title: Stella Tells Her Story
author:  Janiel Wagstaff 
description: What a clever idea! Janiel Wagstaff introduces children to Stella, an active second grader who learns to write in new genres. Teachers will love the easy-to-follow steps for writing informational, narrative and opinion pieces. For both teachers and students, the Stella Writes stories will be love at first read! --Jan Richardson, Literacy Consultant and Author. Author of The Next Step in Guided Reading.<br /><br />Students will recognize themselves as they read and revisit these books before and during writing workshop. The writing strategies that Stella and her classmates use are all research-based, kid-friendly, and will appeal to students writers no matter their experience or academic background. Stella is a must-have for any classroom that wants to add clarity and enthusiasm to the writing program. --Lola Schaefer, Literacy Consultant and Award Winning Children s Author. Author of Lifetime and several instructional books for teachers.<br /><br />If you are looking for the perfect way to introduce the three domains of writing (informative, opinion, narrative) to your students, then the Stella Writes series is it. In these books, Janiel expertly captures the writing process and what master teachers do so effectively. The text is kid-friendly, engaging, and a level above most books written to teach an educational concept. This is impressive. It is as if you're eavesdropping on one of her classrooms. And one thing is for sure, you will leave a better teacher having listened in! Not only are these books ideal for helping students master the Common Core State Standards for writing, but they will serve as a great reference tool throughout the year. I can easily picture teachers pulling out one of these books each time students are engaged in a formal writing project and using it to guide them step-by-step through the writing process. What I especially loved about the books are the insights into how skilled writers write what they think about at each step of the process, how they revise, the questions they ask themselves, the time they take to get it right, and other amazing tips tucked so nicely and naturally into each story. Stella Writes is a must-have writing resource for teachers and Stella will quickly become a primary-grade student s favorite writing mentor! --Wiley Blevins, Author, Researcher, Educator. Author of Phonics From A to Z and children s books like Max Has a Fish.
zlib_text: About the Book
  
  Stella works as an agony aunt for a teenage magazine. She lives on Pansy
  Island, a self-consciously arty community on the Thames, where her husband
  Adrian writes erotic novels in a summerhouse by the river, while her two
  teenage children prepare themselves for adult life in various ways not
  necessarily recommended in the pages of their mother’s advice columns.
  Stella’s friends assume that she has no problems of her own, and shamelessly
  come to her for the advice she dishes up for a living on the magazine; Stella,
  however, finds herself with a problem she cannot handle when Abigail, her rich
  and glamorous friend from university, comes to stay. Abigail has been deserted
  by her husband, and has decided that Stella’s life, and more particularly
  Stella’s husband (with whom she once had a fling in their younger days) will
  fill the gap nicely.
  
  Contents
  
  Cover
  
  About the Book
  
  Title page
  
  Dedication
  
  Chapter One
  
  Chapter Two
  
  Chapter Three
  
  Chapter Four
  
  Chapter Five
  
  Chapter 