Mentor Texts
eBook - ePub

Mentor Texts

Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6

  1. 382 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mentor Texts

Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6

About this book

In their first edition of Mentor Texts, authors Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli helped teachers across the country make the most of high-quality children's literature in their writing instruction. Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6, 2nd Edition the authors continue to show teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers by using literature as their foundation. The second edition includes brand-new Your Turn Lessons, built around the gradual release of responsibility model, offering suggestions for demonstrations and shared or guided writing. Reflection is emphasized as a necessary component to understanding why mentor authors chose certain strategies, literary devices, sentence structures, and words. Dorfman and Cappelli offer new children's book titles in each chapter and in a carefully curated and annotated Treasure Chest. At the end of each chapter a Think About It'sTalk About It'sWrite About It section invites reflection and conversation with colleagues. The book is organized around the characteristics of good writing focus, content, organization, style, and conventions. The authors write in a friendly and conversational style, employing numerous anecdotes to help teachers visualize the process, and offer strategies that can be immediately implemented in the classroom. This practical resource demonstrates the power of learning to read like writers.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781003843481
Edition
2
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Classroom Management

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction to the Second Edition
  9. Chapter 1 Reinventing the Writer with Mentor Texts
  10. Chapter 2 Digging for Treasure: Discovering Personal Stories by Connecting with Literature
  11. Chapter 3 What Are You Really Writing About? Discovering the Inside Story
  12. Chapter 4 When Writers Use a Magnifying Lens
  13. Chapter 5 Growing a Narrative from Beginning to End
  14. Chapter 6 Using Scaffolds to Organize Texts
  15. Chapter 7 Poetry: Everybody Can Be a Writer
  16. Chapter 8 Choice, Voice, and All That Jazz
  17. Chapter 9 Walk Around in the Author’s Syntax
  18. Chapter 10 A Treasure Chest of Books
  19. Afterword
  20. References
  21. Index