Strategic writing mini-lessons for all students, grades 4-8. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Janet C. Richards, Cynthia A. Lassonde.
• Editors: Richards, Janet C, 1936-; Lassonde, Cynthia A
• Contents: 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;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Subjects: 372.62/3; Composition (Language arts)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452284293; 1452284296
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