Getting to the Core of Writing

Essential Lessons for Every Third Grade Student

Vickie Wallace-Nesler, Jan McNeel, Richard Gentry

• Publisher: Shell Education
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781425895044
• Edition: 0

Inspire students to develop as writers in the third grade classroom with these engaging and creative writing lessons. This classroom-tested resource shows positive results in students'' writing and simplifies the planning of writing instruction. It contains detailed information on how to establish and manage daily Writer''s Workshop and includes consistent, structured instruction to encourage students to actively participate in the writing process. Specific lessons to help students develop the traits of quality writing are also included. This resource develops college and career readiness skills and is aligned to today''s standards.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Credits
• Page 3 - Table of Contents
• Page 4 - Table of Contents, cont.
• Page 5 - Introduction
• Page 5 - The Importance of Writing
• Page 6 - Traits of Quality Writing
• Page 7 - The Reading and Writing Connection
• Page 10 - The Purpose of Assessment
• Page 11 - How to Use This Book
• Page 11 - Planning Writing Instruction
• Page 14 - Components of Writer’s Workshop
• Page 15 - Implementing the Lessons
• Page 18 - Implementing Writer’s Workshop
• Page 19 - The Writing Conference
• Page 21 - The Writer’s Notebook
• Page 23 - Top 10 Tips for Creating Successful Writers
• Page 24 - Correlation to Standards
• Page 31 - Acknowledgments
• Page 32 - About the Authors
• Page 33 - Managing Writer’s Workshop
• Page 35 - Lesson 1: Components of Writer’s Workshop
• Page 38 - Lesson 2: Our Group Meeting
• Page 41 - Lesson 3: The Writing Folder
• Page 50 - Lesson 4: The Writer’s Notebook
• Page 52 - Lesson 5: Organizing the Writer’s Notebook
• Page 58 - Lesson 6: Sharing
• Page 62 - Lesson 7: Turn and Talk
• Page 65 - Lesson 8: Guidelines for Writer’s Workshop
• Page 68 - Lesson 9: Teacher and Peer Conferences
• Page 71 - Lesson 10: The Five-Step Writing Process
• Page 75 - Ideas
• Page 77 - Lesson 1: My Expert List
• Page 80 - Lesson 2: I Can Write Like That!
• Page 83 - Lesson 3: Collecting Ideas
• Page 86 - Lesson 4: People We Love
• Page 89 - Lesson 5: Fabulous Faunae
• Page 92 - Lesson 6: Story Seeds
• Page 96 - Lesson 7: Famous People I Admire
• Page 99 - Lesson 8: What Should I Write?
• Page 103 - Sentence Fluency
• Page 105 - Lesson 1: Popcorn Sentences
• Page 108 - Lesson 2: A Simple Sentence
• Page 111 - Lesson 3: The Compound Subject
• Page 114 - Lesson 4: Types of Sentences
• Page 117 - Lesson 5: The Compound Verb
• Page 120 - Lesson 6: The Compound Sentence
• Page 123 - Lesson 7: Rubber Band Sentences
• Page 127- Lesson 8: A Complex Sentence
• Page 131 - Organization
• Page 133 - Lesson 1: Name Poetry
• Page 136 - Lesson 2: 123 Paragraphs: Opinion
• Page 139 - Lesson 3: 123 Paragraphs: Story
• Page 142 - Lesson 4: 123 Paragraphs: Informing
• Page 145 - Lesson 5: Building a Story Mountain
• Page 152 - Lesson 6: Telling a Story
• Page 155 - Lesson 7: More Than “Once Upon a Time”
• Page 159 - Lesson 8: Circular Endings
• Page 162 - Lesson 9: Writing a Letter
• Page 166 - Lesson 10: It’s My Opinion!
• Page 170 - Lesson 11: Just Stating the Facts
• Page 174 - Lesson 12: Poetry Fun
• Page 177 - Word Choice
• Page 179 - Lesson 1: Be Specific!
• Page 182 - Lesson 2: Vivid Verbs
• Page 185 - Lesson 3: Amazing Adjectives
• Page 188 - Lesson 4: Banished, Boring Words
• Page 193 - Lesson 5: Transition Words
• Page 198 - Lesson 6: Super Similes
• Page 201 - Lesson 7: Awesome Adverbs
• Page 206 - Lesson 8: Interesting Idioms
• Page 209 - Voice
• Page 211 - Lesson 1: How Do You Feel?
• Page 216 - Lesson 2: Looking and Listening for Voice
• Page 219 - Lesson 3: Informing Interjections
• Page 222 - Lesson 4: Know Your Audience
• Page 225 - Conventions
• Page 227 - Lesson 1: The Capital Rap
• Page 230 - Lesson 2: Punctuation Takes a Holiday
• Page 233 - Lesson 3: See It! Say It! Spell It! Write It! Check It!
• Page 236 - Lesson 4: Editing with CUPS
• Page 240 - Lesson 5: Quotation Marks:“Who Said That?”
• Page 243 - Lesson 6: Caution Comma Chant
• Page 246 - Lesson 7: Using Editing Marks
• Page 250 - Lesson 8: Writing Traits Checklist
• Page 253 - Appendices
• Page 253 - Appendix A: Conferring Resources
• Page 261 - Appendix B: Assessment Resources
• Page 273 - Appendix C: Mentor Text List
• Page 280 - Appendix D: Additional Resources
• Page 285 - Appendix E: References
• Page 288 - Appendix F: Contents of the Teacher Resource CD
• Thank You Page