Writing Is Magic, Or Is It? Using Mentor Texts to Develop the Writer's Craft ebook

Writing Is Magic, Or Is It? Using Mentor Texts to Develop the Writer's Craft ebook
Author: Mary McMackin
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 142589755X

Students must study what accomplished authors have written and practice the styles, approaches, or methods they employ in order to become proficient writers. The practical, standards-based book dives deeply into the genres of poetry, narrative fiction, narrative nonfiction, informative/explanatory, and opinion/argument. Using close reading of mentor texts, analysis of specific writing strategies in those texts, and the application of those strategies in the student's own writing, students will be equipped for any type of writing.

Integrating the Arts Across the Content Areas, 2nd Edition ebook

Integrating the Arts Across the Content Areas, 2nd Edition ebook
Author: Lisa Donovan
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1087648564

Bring the arts back in the classroom! This book offers built-in teacher support with concrete strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in their classrooms. This book shows teachers how to build students’ creativity and critical thinking skills by using the arts in science, math, language arts, and social studies topics.

Integrating the Arts in Science: 30 Strategies to Create Dynamic Lessons, 2nd Edition ebook

Integrating the Arts in Science: 30 Strategies to Create Dynamic Lessons, 2nd Edition ebook
Author: Vivian Poey
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1087648521

Use the arts to inspire, engage, and motivate students in science class! This book provides useful strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in science topics. These teacher-friendly strategies bring science to life while building students’ creativity and critical thinking skills.

Integrating the Arts in Mathematics: 30 Strategies to Create Dynamic Lessons, 2nd Edition ebook

Integrating the Arts in Mathematics: 30 Strategies to Create Dynamic Lessons, 2nd Edition ebook
Author: Linda Dacey
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 108764853X

Use the arts to engage, motivate, and inspire students in math class! This book provides thoughtful strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in mathematics topics. These teacher-friendly strategies bring math to life while building students’ critical thinking skills and creativity.

Integrating the Arts in Language Arts: 30 Strategies to Create Dynamic Lessons, 2nd Edition ebook

Integrating the Arts in Language Arts: 30 Strategies to Create Dynamic Lessons, 2nd Edition ebook
Author: Jennifer M. Bogard
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1087648548

Use the arts to inspire, engage, and motivate students in language arts class! This book provides meaningful strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in language arts topics. These teacher-friendly strategies bring language arts to life while building students’ creativity and critical thinking skills.

Integrating the Arts in Social Studies: 30 Strategies to Create Dynamic Lessons, 2nd Edition ebook

Integrating the Arts in Social Studies: 30 Strategies to Create Dynamic Lessons, 2nd Edition ebook
Author: Jennifer M. Bogard
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1087648556

Use the arts to excite, inspire, and motivate students in social studies class! This book provides useful strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in social studies topics. These teacher-friendly strategies bring social studies to life while building students’ critical thinking skills and creativity.

Oral Mentor Texts

Oral Mentor Texts
Author: Connie Campbell Dierking
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780325053585

"Oral Mentor Texts shows you a way to teach, reinforce and practice skills and strategies with all your students. These teacher-created stories support a wide range of literacy goals"--Back cover.

The Writer's Portable Mentor

The Writer's Portable Mentor
Author: Priscilla Long
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2018
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 082636005X

Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story, or essay. It trains writers in observation and in developing a poet's ear for sound in prose. It scrutinizes the sentence strategies of the masters and offers advice on how to publish. This second edition is updated to account for changes in the publishing industry and provides hundreds of new craft models to inspire, guide, and develop every writer's work.

Writing with Mentors

Writing with Mentors
Author: Allison Marchetti
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780325074504

In Writing with Mentors, high school teachers Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O'Dell prove that the key to cultivating productive, resourceful writers-writers who can see value and purpose for writing beyond school-is using dynamic, hot-off-the-press mentor texts. In this practical guide, they provide savvy strategies for:--finding and storing fresh new mentor texts, from trusted traditional sources to the social mediums of the day --grouping mentor texts in clusters that show a diverse range of topics, styles, and approaches --teaching with lessons that demonstrate the enormous potential of mentor texts at every stage of the writing process.

Wonderbook

Wonderbook
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 867
Release: 2018-07-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1613124635

Now expanded: The definitive visual guide to writing science fiction and fantasy—with exercises, diagrams, essays by superstar authors, and more. From the New York Times-bestselling, Nebula Award-winning author, Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also embraces the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings, and visualizations to stimulate creative thinking. On top of all that, it features sidebars and essays—most original to the book—from some of the biggest names working in the field today, among them George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Charles Yu, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Karen Joy Fowler. For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added fifty more pages of diagrams, illustrations, and writing exercises, creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice. “One book that every speculative fiction writer should read to learn about proper worldbuilding.” —Bustle “A treat . . . gorgeous to page through.” —Space.com