Craft Moves
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Craft Moves

Lesson Sets for Teaching Writing with Mentor Texts

  1. 225 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Craft Moves

Lesson Sets for Teaching Writing with Mentor Texts

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About This Book

How do you choose mentor texts for your students? How do you mine them for the craft lessons you want your students to learn?In Craft Moves: Lesson Sets for Teaching Writing with Mentor Texts, Stacey Shubitz, co-founder of the Two Writing Teachers website, usestwenty recently published picture books to createmore than 180 lessons to teach various craft moves that will help your students become better writers.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 understanding of the selected craft move. A step-by-step guide demonstrates how to analyze a picture book for multiple craft moves.Shubitzintroduces picture books as teaching tools and offers ways to integrate them into your curriculum and classroom discussions. She then shares different routines and classroom procedures designed to help students focus on their writing during the writer's workshop as well as focusing how teachers can prepare for small group instruction.Using picture books as mentor texts will help your students not only read as writers and write with joy but also become writers who can effectively communicate meaning, structure their writing, write with detail, and give their writing their own unique voice.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781003841593
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Professional Development

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 Choosing Picture Books for Mentor Texts
  10. Chapter 2 Reading Picture Books for Pleasure and Purpose
  11. Chapter 3 Establishing Routines and Procedures for Writing with Mentor Texts
  12. Chapter 4 Small-Group Strategy Lessons: Talking with Students About Their Writing
  13. Chapter 5 Fiction Lesson Sets: Ten Texts, Thousands of Possibilities
  14. Chapter 6 Nonfiction Lesson Sets: Moving from Narrative to Informational Writing
  15. Afterword Invitation to Collaborate
  16. Glossary
  17. Bibliography
  18. Credits
  19. Index