The Informational Writing Toolkit: Using Mentor Texts in Grades 3-5 - Hardcover

Ruday, Sean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138832049 ISBN 13: 9781138832046

Verlag: Routledge, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

In order for students to write effective informational texts, they need to read good informational texts! In this practical book, you’ll find out how to use high-quality books and articles to make writing instruction more meaningful, authentic, and successful. The author demonstrates how you can help students analyze the qualities of effective informational texts and then help students think of those qualities as tools to improve their own writing. The book is filled with examples and templates you can bring back to the classroom immediately.

Special Features:

• Offers clear suggestions for meeting the Common Core informational writing standards
• Covers all aspects of informational writing, including introducing and developing a topic; grouping related information together; adding features that aid comprehension; linking ideas; and using precise language and domain-specific vocabulary
• Includes a variety of assessment strategies and rubrics
• Provides classroom snapshots to show the writing tools in action
• Comes with a variety of templates and tools that can be photocopied or downloaded and printed from our website, www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138832060

Bonus! The book includes an annotated bibliography―a comprehensive list of recommended informational texts, with suggestions for how to use them.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sean Ruday is an assistant professor of English Education at Longwood University and a former classroom teacher. He frequently writes and presents on innovative ways to improve students' literacy learning.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138832049
• ISBN 13: 9781138832046
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 158
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