For Multiple Grades Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills is
your go-to guide for writing-craft instruction through exemplary and
accessible literature models. Writing-craft Target Skills--those
specific techniques that all good writers use to effectively craft clear
and compelling fiction and non-fiction--are best taught through explicit
modeling. Locating the appropriate mentor texts for every skill,
however, can be a daunting and time-consuming task. This innovative
resource puts more than 450 valuable literature models at your
fingertips and matches them to thirty-three fundamental writing-craft
Target Skills. To add variety and versatility to your K-8 writing
classroom, Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills includes a
wide assortment of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry selections, ranging
from picture books to intermediate texts. This revised and updated
second edition also includes more than seventy Spanish literature models
that are ideal for ESL/ELL writing-craft instruction. Save yourself time
and energy by referencing four literature-model matrices, which
alphabetically list fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and Spanish-text
models. Each genre-specific matrix identifies multiple writing-craft
skills so you can easily reference how to use many of the models to
teach a variety of writing techniques. Models for Teaching Writing-craft
Target Skills: Helps you fully utilize the strong connection between
reading and writing; Increases the power of modeling in your
writing-workshop lessons; Pre-selects and organizes a set of appropriate
literature models to help you teach writing craft effectively; and
Features Spanish literature models for teaching writing-craft skills to
ESL/ELL students.
