25 Quick Mini-Lessons to Teach Narrative Writing

25 Quick Mini-Lessons to Teach Narrative Writing

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  • Author: Dave Leochko
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 9780439063968
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 84

In this collection of engaging mini-lessons and companion reproducible pages, teacher Dave Leochko shares his favorite writing lessons--ones that have really helped his students become better writers. The classroom-tested lessons in this book take young writers through all the steps of the writing process, including getting an idea, revising a story, and conferencing with other writers, while also targeting specific skills, such as using punctuation correctly, varying sentence structure, making characters believable, and developing a plot. The reproducible pages feature activities that let students apply new skills, as well as writing tips and strategies they can collect and use a reference. For use with Grades 4-8.


Small Moments

Small Moments

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  • Author: Lucy Calkins
  • Publisher: Firsthand Books
  • ISBN: 9780325047249
  • Category : Children
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 170


Literature-Based Mini-Lessons to Teach Writing

Literature-Based Mini-Lessons to Teach Writing

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  • Author: Susan Lunsford
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 9780590433723
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 132

Using favorite picturebooks for her mini-lessons models, teacher Susan Lunsford shares 15 easy-to-do writing lessons. Mini-lessons include: Where do story ideas come from? Great First Lines, Exploring Settings, Painting Pictures with Words, Writing a Complete Story, and Great Endings. Her teacher-student dialogues make it all easy to replicate in your own classroom. Each mini-lessons includes follow-up strategies and activities and picturebook suggestions. Writing conference and management tips too! For use with Grades 1-3.


100 Writing Lessons

100 Writing Lessons

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  • Author: Tara McCarthy
  • Publisher: Teaching Resources
  • ISBN: 9780545110020
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Dip into this vast collection of quick writing lessons and activities to find exactly what you need-whether it's a lesson on using exact words, writing an essay, developing a plot, or organizing a report. You'll find dozens of ideas for teaching students the persuasive, narrative, descriptive, and expository writing skills they need. This comprehensive resource gives you the tools you need to successfully-and joyfully-teach writing. For use with Grades 4Ð8.


Mark Writing

Mark Writing

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  • Author: Angela Stockman
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780986104930
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 108

In Make Writing, everyone's favorite education blogger and writing coach, Angela Stockman, turns teaching strategies and practice upside down. She spills you out of your chair, shreds your lined paper, and launches you and your writer's workshop into the maker space! Who even knew this was possible?


The Best Part of Me

The Best Part of Me

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: Avenues
  • ISBN: 0316703060
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 44

An award-winning photographer captures children's thoughts about their bodies in striking b&w photos and disarmingly honest words.


Interactive Writing

Interactive Writing

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  • Author: Andrea McCarrier
  • Publisher: F&p Professional Books and Mul
  • ISBN: 9780325099262
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Interactive Writing is specifically focused on the early phases of writing, and has special relevance to prekindergarten, kindergarten, grade 1 and 2 teachers.


Duck on a Bike

Duck on a Bike

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  • Author: David Shannon
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 0545530032
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 42

In this off-beat book perfect for reading aloud, a Caldecott Honor winner shares the story of a duck who rides a bike with hilarious results. One day down on the farm, Duck got a wild idea. “I bet I could ride a bike,” he thought. He waddled over to where the boy parked his bike, climbed on, and began to ride. At first, he rode slowly and he wobbled a lot, but it was fun! Duck rode past Cow and waved to her. “Hello, Cow!” said Duck. “Moo,” said Cow. But what she thought was, “A duck on a bike? That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever seen!” And so, Duck rides past Sheep, Horse, and all the other barnyard animals. Suddenly, a group of kids ride by on their bikes and run into the farmhouse, leaving the bikes outside. Now ALL the animals can ride bikes, just like Duck! Praise for Duck on a Bike “Shannon serves up a sunny blend of humor and action in this delightful tale of a Duck who spies a red bicycle one day and gets “a wild idea” . . . Add to all this the abundant opportunity for youngsters to chime in with barnyard responses (“M-o-o-o”; “Cluck! Cluck!”), and the result is one swell read-aloud, packed with freewheeling fun.” —Publishers Weekly “Grab your funny bone—Shannon . . . rides again! . . . A “quackerjack” of a terrific escapade.” —Kirkus Reviews


Writing Genres

Writing Genres

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  • Author: Amy J Devitt
  • Publisher: SIU Press
  • ISBN: 0809387387
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 261

In Writing Genres, Amy J. Devitt examines genre from rhetorical, social, linguistic, professional, and historical perspectives and explores genre's educational uses, making this volume the most comprehensive view of genre theory today. Writing Genres does not limit itself to literary genres or to ideas of genres as formal conventions but additionally provides a theoretical definition of genre as rhetorical, dynamic, and flexible, which allows scholars to examine the role of genres in academic, professional, and social communities. Writing Genres demonstrates how genres function within their communities rhetorically and socially, how they develop out of their contexts historically, how genres relate to other types of norms and standards in language, and how genres nonetheless enable creativity. Devitt also advocates a critical genre pedagogy based on these ideas and provides a rationale for first-year writing classes grounded in teaching antecedent genres.


Mrs. Mack

Mrs. Mack

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  • Author: Patricia Polacco
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 0698118871
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 41

Patricia is thrilled when her father decides that she's finally old enough to learn to ride. But her dreams of having a beautiful horse of her own are dashed when he takes her to a stable in Dogpatch, the rundown section of town. Patricia is sure that she'll never learn anything in a place like that. But it's in Dogpatch that Patricia meets two individuals--kind, patient Mrs. Mack and a glorious chestnut mare named Penny--who help her overcome her fears, and change her life forever. Powerfully written, beautifully told, and brought to life with rich watercolor illustrations, this is a story that will touch the heart of everyone who reads it.