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Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning: 101 Lessons & Mentor Texts--Narrative, Opinion/Argument, & Informative/Explanatory, Grades 4-9
Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning: 101 Lessons & Mentor Texts--Narrative, Opinion/Argument, & Informative/Explanatory, Grades 4-9
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Sometimes a student's best teacher is another student
Just as the pressure for students to perform well on state assessments escalates ever higher, and the call to raise students' achievement in narrative, opinion/argument, and informative/explanatory writing grows louder, Gretchen Bernabei and Judi Reimer publish Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning. If ever there were a book to answer every need, this is it.
You see, Gretchen and Judi have been concerned about adolescents' writing for years, and they have had amazing success using mentor texts by students to teach the ins and outs of writing in any genre. So with this book, they "hand over their file drawers" and provide you with 101 essays written by students with one-page companion lessons that address text structure, imagery, dialogue, rhetorical devices, grammatical structures, textual blends--all the different tools that writers use.
Organized into three major sections that align with the Common Core, STAAR, and other major state assessments, Fun-Size Academic Writing delivers succinct, powerhouse instruction on topics such as:
- How to choose a structure for argument, informational, or narrative writing
- How to read a piece and extract thesis statement and main points
- How to layer a wide range of details to support points
- How to use rhetorical devices and grammatical constructions for effect
- How to write from the point of view of a fictional character
The essays--also available in reproducible form on the companion website--demonstrate something striking, something imitable, something concrete. They give students a bank of choices to call upon as they write. The lessons are short, practical, and full of variety. Collectively, these essays and lessons have the potential to move the needle on American students' writing achievement once and for all. They show what has been done by students--and they reveal to you how your own students can do it, too.
Author: Gretchen Bernabei,Judith A. Reimer
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Published: 08/06/2013
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781452268613
In 2010, NCTE awarded Gretchen the prestigious James Moffett Award for her classroom research.
In addition, Gretchen is a sought-after presenter for workshops and staff-development seminars across the United States. Her schedule for summer 2012 is attached.
Judi Reimer is a teacher and writer living in San Antonio, Texas. She worked with Gretchen as copyeditor and personal assistant on her last two books. She taught 4th grade for North East ISD for 17 years, and continues to work with students and teachers in the district doing writing activities and test prep tutoring. As a freelance writer, she has written features and columns for Parents, Ladies′ Home Journal, and other national magazines. She has also written articles for Studies Weekly classroom publications, as well as doing standards correlations, assessments, and webinars for their parent company, American Legacy Publishing. (http: //www.studiesweekly.com/webinars.php).
Just as the pressure for students to perform well on state assessments escalates ever higher, and the call to raise students' achievement in narrative, opinion/argument, and informative/explanatory writing grows louder, Gretchen Bernabei and Judi Reimer publish Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning. If ever there were a book to answer every need, this is it.
You see, Gretchen and Judi have been concerned about adolescents' writing for years, and they have had amazing success using mentor texts by students to teach the ins and outs of writing in any genre. So with this book, they "hand over their file drawers" and provide you with 101 essays written by students with one-page companion lessons that address text structure, imagery, dialogue, rhetorical devices, grammatical structures, textual blends--all the different tools that writers use.
Organized into three major sections that align with the Common Core, STAAR, and other major state assessments, Fun-Size Academic Writing delivers succinct, powerhouse instruction on topics such as:
- How to choose a structure for argument, informational, or narrative writing
- How to read a piece and extract thesis statement and main points
- How to layer a wide range of details to support points
- How to use rhetorical devices and grammatical constructions for effect
- How to write from the point of view of a fictional character
The essays--also available in reproducible form on the companion website--demonstrate something striking, something imitable, something concrete. They give students a bank of choices to call upon as they write. The lessons are short, practical, and full of variety. Collectively, these essays and lessons have the potential to move the needle on American students' writing achievement once and for all. They show what has been done by students--and they reveal to you how your own students can do it, too.
Author: Gretchen Bernabei,Judith A. Reimer
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Published: 08/06/2013
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781452268613
About the Author
Gretchen Bernabei′s teaching career spans more than 28 years--and counting. She currently teaches English at the Eleanor Kolitz Academy in San Antonio. Gretchen has shared her experience with other teachers through seminars, journal articles and books, offering field-tested techniques for teaching writing. Her The Good Writer′s Kit for Hampton-Brown/National Geographic is a multi-component program for inspiring adolescent writers. Other recent publications include:
- Crunchtime: Lessons to Help Students Blow the Roof Off writing Tests and Become Better Writers in the Process (Heinemann)
- Publication to date units: 14,050
- First 12 months units: 6000
- Why We Must Run with Scissors (with Barry Lane)
- Reviving the Essay: Teaching Structure without Formula
- Lightning in a Bottle, a program featuring photographs on CD-ROM used to prompt and guide student writing.
- "The School Essay: Tracking Movement of the Mind" in Teaching the Neglected "R" Rethinking Writing Instruction in Secondary Classrooms (Heinemann)
- The Story of My Thinking: Expository Writing Activities for 13 Teaching Situations (forthcoming, Heinemann, fall 2012)
In 2010, NCTE awarded Gretchen the prestigious James Moffett Award for her classroom research.
In addition, Gretchen is a sought-after presenter for workshops and staff-development seminars across the United States. Her schedule for summer 2012 is attached.
Judi Reimer is a teacher and writer living in San Antonio, Texas. She worked with Gretchen as copyeditor and personal assistant on her last two books. She taught 4th grade for North East ISD for 17 years, and continues to work with students and teachers in the district doing writing activities and test prep tutoring. As a freelance writer, she has written features and columns for Parents, Ladies′ Home Journal, and other national magazines. She has also written articles for Studies Weekly classroom publications, as well as doing standards correlations, assessments, and webinars for their parent company, American Legacy Publishing. (http: //www.studiesweekly.com/webinars.php).
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