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Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students, Grades 4–8
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Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students, Grades 4–8

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Foreword by Jane Hansen



January 2013 | 264 pages | Corwin
Short lessons with a big impact!Respond to your writersÆ needs with mini-lessons that will improve their craft and confidence. From the start, the ôI Can!ö chapter sets up writers to know what they can do, by learning to note and record their own strengths. Every chapter models strategies that foster studentsÆ self-regulated, independent writing, and includes adaptations that show how to adjust teaching for advanced writers, writers who struggle, English language learners, and extending the strategies across content areas. Each mini-lesson is laid out step by step for ease of use, including sections on:Materials neededModeling the lessonStudent practiceIndependent writing
 
Foreword by Jane Hansen
 
Introduction: Meeting Your Students’ Needs With Specific Writing Strategies by Janet C. Richards, Cynthia A. Lassonde
 
Section I. Strategic Inventing: Contemplating Ideas
 
1. Color-Coding Sources by Cynthia A. Lassonde
 
2. Developing Students’ Awareness of Their Strengths as Writers with an I-Can! Chart by Joanne Durham
 
3. Using a Blueprint Graphic Organizer to Build a Story by Jennifer A. Fontenot
 
4. Using Genre Charts to Guide Planning and Writing by Gabe Horn, Susan D. Martin
 
5. Reciprocal Text Structure Mapping for Expository Writing by Joyce C. Fine
 
6. Thanks for the Memories! Using a Sensory-Details Chart to Prepare to Write by Sandra Gandy, Mariah Kraus
 
7. Organizing an Expository Essay: Using Big Idea Checklists to Support Writers by Allison Stone, Joyce C. Fine
 
Section II. Strategic Drafting: Putting Ideas on Paper
 
8. Quilting Together an Expository Paper in Four Steps by Cynthia A. Lassonde
 
9. Team Writing to Foster Students’ Motivation to Write: Moving From Group Work to Independence by Janet C. Richards
 
10. Use Your Words: Learning to Paraphrase by Janet C. Richards
 
11. Creating Rounded Characters through Cartoon Connections by Krishna Seunarinesingh
 
12. Applying the Structure Strategy to Write Persuasive Texts by Bonnie J. F. Meyer, Jennifer Ireland, Melissa Ray
 
13. Buddies Build It Stronger: A Sentence-Combining Strategy by Todd Sundeen
 
Section III. Strategic Revising: Attending to Organization and Cohesiveness
 
14. Deconstruct Then Reconstruct a First Draft by Cynthia A. Lassonde
 
15. Portal Writing: A Strategy to Help Writers Rethink Their Writing by S. Rebecca Leigh
 
16. Conferring with an Avatar by Chase Young, Lynda Swanner
 
17. Writing Aloud: A Sound-Savvy Approach to Writing by Sandra K. Athans
 
18. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Revising With Photographs by Noreen S. Moore
 
Section IV. Strategic Editing: The Finishing Touch
 
19. Revising and Editing Through Primary Sources by Nancy Williams, Kathleen Muir
 
20. Code Switching, an Editing Strategy by Rebecca Wheeler
 
21. The Imagine, Describe, Resolve, and Confrim (IDRC) Strategy by Lindsay Sheronick Yearta, Katie Stover, Lynne Newton, Karen Wood
 
22. Probable Passages: Using Story Structure to Write and Revise a Predictive Passage by Katie Stover, Jean Vintinner, Crystal Glover, Karen Wood
 
References
 
Index
 
About the Authors
 
About the Contributors

“Teachers often worry about how to teach writing to students at different levels, especially to students who seem to struggle as writers. With those teachers in mind, this book provides tips about how to tailor instruction.”

Jane Hanson, Director
Central Virginia Writing Project

“This book is the most useful writing resource I have encountered in all my years of teaching. It is filled with practical strategies to produce writers with high-quality work product and high interest in the craft of writing.”

Linda Sarver, Teacher
Excelsior Springs, MO

"A true resource for the teacher of writing. The plethora of strategies is accessible and appropriate for each grade level and learning ability.”

Gary L. Willhite, Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

"Great resource! A variety of helpful strategies are offered by teachers in authentic classroom situations. Modifications of these lessons for struggling, ELL, and advanced students enable all to benefit."

Marsha Basanda, Fifth-Grade Teacher
Bell's Crossing Elementary, Simpsonville, SC

“As a Middle School Literacy Specialist with many years of experience in teaching reading and writing, I appreciate this book and highly recommend it as a tool for educators. The authors have compiled the most reliable and best proven practices for teaching writing and made them easily accessible for students’ immediate use. This book not only has tested methods that work for teaching writing, it has modifications for all students, including struggling and advanced writers. Best of all, you’ll discover practical approaches that provide actual mini-lessons with integrated Common Core Standards and ideas to generate purpose for writer motivation. Whether you teach English, Science, Reading, or any other area, your students can benefit from learning the writing strategies in this book.”

Bonnie Snyder, Literacy Specialist
Schoharie Central School, Schoharie, NY

Sample Materials & Chapters

Foreword by Jane Hansen

Chapter 1


Janet C. Richards

Janet C. Richards is a Professor of Literacy and Research at the University of South Florida, Tampa, where she teaches graduate courses in qualitative and transdisciplinary research, academic writing, literacy, and multicultural literature. She publishes extensively and was selected as a Lansdowne Visiting Scholar, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She also served as an International Reading Association Volunteer Literacy Scholar in emerging Eastern European and Central Asian nations, and is the Senior Editor of the Journal of Reading Education. More About Author

Cynthia A. Lassonde

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