Contains eighty lessons for teaching students the craft of nonfiction writing, each with a discussion of the lesson, directions on how to teach it, and resource material; grouped by grade level, including kindergarten through second, third and fourth, and fifth through eighth.
This book will help students breathe voice into lifeless "dump-truck" writing and improve their nonfiction writing by making it clearer, more authoritative, and more organized.
Nonfiction Craft Lessons Teaching Information Writing K-8
By flipping the traditional "reading lesson first, writing lesson second" sequence, Colleen Cruz ingeniously helps you make the most of the writing-to-reading connection with carefully matched, conceptually connected lesson pairs.
Linda Hoyt Nonfiction writers need to develop a broad arsenal of sentence structures so their writing is rich, varied, and fluid.
Each of the 184 lessons in the book includes a publisher's summary, a rationale or explanation of the craft move demonstrated in the book, and a procedure that takes teachers and students back into the mentor text to deepen their ...
Focused on the process and traits of being a writer and how to best address the needs and expectations of nonfiction readers, Linda Hoyt's" Crafting Nonfiction "offers targeted minilessons that will help you elevate craft, integrate trait ...
Since its publication in 1998 Craft Lessons has become a mainstay of writing teachers, both new and experienced. Readers value the pithy, practical lessons?each printed on one page?and appreciate the...
Lessons for the Writer's Notebook by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi provides a series of proven lessons that will help you introduce the writer's notebook into your classroom, sustain it in your curriculum, and eventually guide students ...
Mentor-text-based lessons on finding topics, organizing material, writing leads and endings, exploring genre, and more.
Focused on the process and traits of being a writer and how to best address the needs and expectations of nonfiction readers, Linda Hoyt's" Crafting Nonfiction "offers targeted minilessons that will help you elevate craft, integrate trait ...