Mentor texts: teaching writing through children's literature, K-6
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Main Author: Dorfman, Lynne R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Portland, Me. Stenhouse Publishers c2007
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Reinventing the writer with mentor texts -- Digging for treasure: discovering personal stories by connecting with read alouds -- What are you really writing about? Discovering the inside story -- When writers use a magnifying lens -- Creating powerful beginnings and satisfying endings -- Using scaffolds to organize texts -- Poetry: everybody can be a writer -- Choice, voice, and all that jazz -- Walk around in the author's syntax -- A treasure chest of books
In Mentor Texts, Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli show teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers, using literature as their foundation. The book is organized around the characteristics of good writing: focus, content, organization, style, and conventions. Rose and Lynne 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 314 p.)
ISBN:1571108386
9781571108388

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