Download or read book Traits of Writing written by Ruth Culham and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective, easy-to-use tools for trait-based assessment and instruction--just for middle school teachers. Includes printable reproducible forms!
Download or read book 6 1 Traits of Writing written by Ruth Culham and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to teach and assess student writing with this powerful model.
Download or read book Using Mentor Texts to Teach 6 1 Writing Traits written by Beverly A. DeVries and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, you’ll find a wealth of mini lessons designed to improve the quality of students’ writing. Each lesson uses a key mentor text and spotlights one of the 6 + 1 Writing Traits to allow students to focus on the essential aspects of good writing – content, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation. Inviting and practical, the lessons are concise and follow a consistent model for easy implementation. With seven lessons per chapter, each includes step-by-step guidance, open-ended prompts, and suggestions for additional suitable mentor texts. The chapters are organized by genre – including fiction, informational texts, and poetry – and feature graphic novels and graphic informational mentor texts to inspire and engage students. Aligned with the Common Core State Standards, this resource is essential for any K-8 or pre-service teacher who wants to instill in their students the skills to become independent, confident writers.
Download or read book Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing with the Traits written by Ruth Culham and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is an annotated bibliography of 150 picture books, chapter books, and young adult novels with teacher-tested lessons to strengthen students' writing in all six traits.
Download or read book Using Picture Books to Teach Writing with the Traits written by Ruth Culham and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 books to strengthen students' writing in all seven traits!
Download or read book Mentor Texts written by Rose Cappelli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'sfocus, 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.
Download or read book Writing Thief written by Ruth Culham and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culham demonstrates a major part of good writing instruction is finding the right mentor texts to share with students. Within this book, you'll discover more than 90 excellent mentor texts, along with straight-forward activities that incorporate the traits of writing across informational, narrative, and argument modes.
Download or read book 40 Reproducible Forms for the Writing Traits Classroom written by Ruth Culham and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Checklists, graphic organizers, rubrics and scoring sheets and more to boost students' writing skills in all seven traits.
Download or read book Teaching Nonfiction Revision written by Sneed B. Collard III and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a bestselling nonfiction children's book author pairs up with a nationally known writing teacher to discuss revision strategies? Magic. Sneed B. Collard III and Vicki Spandel blow the roof off everything you thought you knew about teaching nonfiction writing and the purposes for revision. Dozens of strategy lessons pulled from Sneed's professional writing experience followed by Vicki's classroom-savvy tips and exercises give you the nuts and bolts of teaching revision to make nonfiction writing more meaningful, useful, and enjoyable for the reader. Using a "big-to-small" process of revision, from Big Picture ideas down to individual words, Sneed and Vicki demystify revision and help students become clear, persuasive, compelling-even entertaining-writers. "With your encouragement and guidance," they write, "students will discover the joy of turning their first rough ideas into something readers cannot put down."
Download or read book Picture Books Model Lessons and More to Teach Writing with the 6 Traits written by Ruth Culham and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture books, model lessons, and more to teach writing with the 6 traits.
Download or read book Using Benchmark Papers to Teach Writing with the Traits written by Ruth Culham and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trait expert Ruth Culham has created a diverse set of papers grades 3-5, assessed and annotated them, and designed an interactive whiteboard CD of exemplars so teachers and students can use them as the focus of trait-based writing instruction. The papers are highlighted by key quality for each trait, making it easy for writers to see what works and what doesn't by simply pressing the color-coded buttons at the bottom of each projected paper on the white board. Can be used with overhead projectors as well.
Download or read book Nonfiction Mentor Texts written by Lynne R. Dorfman and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guides teachers through a variety of projects, samples, and classroom anecdotes that demonstrate how teachers can help students become more effective writers of good nonfiction.
Download or read book Oral Mentor Texts written by Connie Campbell Dierking and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oral Mentor Texts shows you a way to teach, reinforce and practice skills and strategies with all your students. These teacher-created stories support a wide range of literacy goals"--Back cover.
Download or read book Teach Writing Well written by Ruth Culham and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask great writers what the key to writing well is and they will tell you revision. Author Ruth Culham, both a successful writer and writing teacher, understands the challenges elementary teachers face when teaching writing and revision and now shares her knowledge in Teach Writing Well: How to Assess Writing, Invigorate Instruction, and Rethink Revision. Divided into two parts, Culham's book provides ways to teach that are both accessible to the teacher and student. You will find techniques to assess writing that are practical, and results driven. Inside you'll discover: Culham's "traits of writing" and how to use them to read and assess student work Ways to guide revision decisions using these traits as common language How to address challenges students may face within the different modes of writing (narrative, expository, and persuasive) Strategic lessons to teach the writer that scaffold students towards making their own craft decisions A chapter on mentor texts which can be used to model traits and key qualities for your students Teach Writing Well pulls best practices together and shows writing with fresh eyes.
Download or read book One Word from Sophia written by Jim Averbeck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Sophia wants for her birthday is a pet giraffe, but as she tries to convince different members of her rather complicated family to support her cause, each tells her she is using too many words until she finally hits on the perfect one. Includes glossary.
Download or read book The 9 Rights of Every Writer written by Vicki Spandel and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spandel invites nine published authors into a discussion of what makes writing work.
Download or read book Launching the Writer s Workshop written by Kristina Smekens and published by . This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
