Teaching evidence-based writing. Nonfiction : texts and lessons for spot-on writing about reading , with 100 best-the-test tips / Leslie Blauman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blauman, Leslie, author.

Series:

Corwin Literacy.

Corwin Literacy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts (Elementary)--United States.

Language arts (Elementary).

Composition (Language arts)--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States.

Composition (Language arts).

English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States.

English language.

Reading comprehension--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States.

Reading comprehension.

Critical thinking--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States.

Critical thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 183 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin Literary, [2017]

Summary:

One in a million. Yes, that's how rare it is to have so many write-about-reading strategies so beautifully put to use. Each year Leslie Blauman guides her students to become highly skilled at supporting their thinking about texts, and in Evidence-Based Writing: Nonfiction, she shares her win-win process. Leslie combed the ELA standards and all her favorite books and built a lesson structure you can use in two ways: with an entire text or with just the excerpts she's included in the book. Addressing Evidence, Relationships, Main Idea, Point of View, Visuals, Words and Structure, each section includes: Lessons you can use as teacher demonstrations or for guided practice, with Best the Test tips on how to authentically teach the skills that show up on exams with the texts you teach. Prompt Pages serve as handy references, giving students the key questions to ask themselves as they read any text and consider how an author's meaning and structure combine. Excerpts-to-Write About Pages feature carefully selected passages from current biographies, informational books, and articles on the topics you teach and questions that require students to discover a text's literal and deeper meanings. Write-About-Reading Templates scaffold students to think about a text efficiently by focusing on its critical craft elements or text structure demands and help them rehearse for more extensive responses. Writing Tasks invite students to transform their notes into a more developed paragraph or essay with sufficiently challenging tasks geared for grades 6-8. And best of all, your students gain a confidence in responding to complex texts and ideas that will serve them well in school, on tests, and in any situation when they are asked: What are you basing that on? Show me how you know.

Contents:

section 1. Evidence

section 2. Relationships

section 3. Main idea/Central idea

section 4. Point of view

section 5. Visuals

section 6. Words and structure.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781506379074

1506379079

9781071800836

1071800833

9781506379067

1506379060

9781506379081

1506379087

OCLC:

973928599