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Here's valuable help for improving students' writing through a sound, illustrative combination of research-based authentic writing samples and positive coaching conversations. A guide, an incentive, and a model for success, this resource uses real classroom writing and pedagogical elements that provide specific context, research connections, teacher talk, and most importantly, students' writing examples to help teachers teach writing to preschool through grade 6 students. Writing Is Like Real Talk! encourages teachers to reflect on how they teach writing-and to use what they learn from students' writing to inform their instruction. In addition to the outstanding pedagogical aids, each chapter includes authentic writing samples and coaching conversations specific to students' needs. Armed with these classroom-based scenarios, instructors can enhance the development of teacher talk that acknowledges students as writers, facilitates students' meaning making, and enables students to move toward writer consciousness.
Contents
Table of Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iAcknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viSection 1: Developing Strategic WritersChapter 1 An Overview of Children's Writing Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 2 Coaching Conversation: Guiding Writing Through Strategic. . . . . . 25 Questioning Section 2: Children's Writing - Preschool Through Sixth GradeChapter 3 Coaching and its Conversations: The Seven Pedagogical Elements. 35 Chapter 4 Writing My Name - A Two-and-a-Half Year Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Chapter 5 A Grocery List - A Three Year Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Chapter 6 Holiday Gift List - A Four-and-a-Half Year Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Chapter 7 Picture Response with Name - Young Kindergarten . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Chapter 8 Visualization Response - Kindergarten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Chapter 9 Response to a Thanksgiving Story - Pre-first. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Chapter 10 Word Study and the Journal Prompt - First Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Chapter 11 Retelling of a Fable - First Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Chapter 12 Persuasive Writing: Taking a Vacation - Second Grade . . . . . . . . . 103Chapter 13 Acrostic Poem - Second Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Chapter 14 Book Response - Second Grade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Chapter 15 How Do Planes Work? - Second/Third Grade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Chapter 16 Lead Sentences - Third Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Chapter 17 Book Reviews -Third Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Chapter 18 Social Justice Project - Third Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Chapter 19 Erie Canal Newspaper Column - Fourth Grade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Chapter 20 Persuasive Writing: Dogs vs. Cats - Fourth Grade. . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Chapter 21 Personal Opinion Essay - Fourth Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Chapter 22 Letter from a Puritan Child - Fifth Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Chapter 23 Graphing the Ways to Eat Oreos - Fifth Grade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Chapter 24 Science Log: Nature's Palette - Fifth Grade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Chapter 25 Poet or Jazz Musician Biography Essay - Sixth Grade. . . . . . . . . . 203 Chapter 26 Diary Response to a Virtual Field Trip - Sixth Grade. . . . . . . . . . . 212Chapter 27 Science Clerihew Poem - Sixth Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Chapter 28 Math Journal: Teacher to Teacher Coaching - Sixth Grade . . . . . . 230 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
