Full Description
A guide for teaching all your students the skills they need to be successful writers
The 25 mini-lessons provided in this book are designed to develop students self-regulated writing behaviors and enhance their self-perceived writing abilities. These foundational writing strategies are applicable and adaptable to all primary students: emergent, advanced, English Language Learners, and struggling writers. Following the SCAMPER (Screen and assess, Confer, Assemble materials, Model, Practice, Execute, Reflect) mini-lesson model devised by the authors, the activities show teachers how to scaffold the writing strategies that students need in order to take control of their independent writing.
Reveals helpful writing strategies, including making associations, planning, visualizing, accessing cues, using mnemonics, and moreOffers ideas for helping students revise, check, and monitor their writing assignmentsExplains the author's proven SCAMPER model that is appropriate for students in grades K-3
Let Richards and Lassonde two experts in the field of childhood education guide you through these proven strategies for enhancing young children's writing skills.
Contents
Foreword by
Susan B. Neuman ix
Introduction 1
Section I Developing Understandings About Writing Strategy Mini-lessons
CHAPTER 1 Teaching Writing Strategies in the Classroom 9 Steve Graham
CHAPTER 2 Incorporating the SCAMPERWriting Strategy Mini-Lesson Model into Your Writing Program 21 Cindy Lassonde and Janet Richards
CHAPTER 3 Architecture of a Mini-Lesson 33 Anne Marie Juola-Rushton
CHAPTER 4 The Role of Teachers Evaluations 45 Jane Hansen
CHAPTER 5 Writing Strategy Instruction for StrugglingWriters 55 Rochelle Matthews-Somerville and Eva Garin
Section II Inventing Strategies
CHAPTER 6 Noun Charts 75 Cynthia B. Leung
CHAPTER 7 Growing a Poem with Interview Buddies 83 Cindy Lassonde
CHAPTER 8 Let's Tell a Story 91 Janet Richards
CHAPTER 9 Writing Rockets andOther Graphic Organizers 99 Todd Sundeen
CHAPTER 10 Interest Charts 107 Susan Davis Lenski and Frances Ramos Verbruggen
Section III Drafting Strategies
CHAPTER 11 Reread So You Know What to Write Next 117 Deborah G. Litt
CHAPTER 12 Where Have I Seen ThatWord Before? 123 Ilene Christian
CHAPTER 13 Storyteller Blocks 131 Joyce C. Fine
CHAPTER 14 Adding Information 141 Jane Hansen
CHAPTER 15 To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme? 153 Cindy Lassonde
CHAPTER 16 Think, Draw, Write, and Share (TDWS) 161 Cynthia B. Leung
Section IV Polishing Strategies
CHAPTER 17 Act ItOut to Discover the Details 173 Joanne Durham
CHAPTER 18 Personal Editing Checklists 181 Janet Richards
CHAPTER 19 Adding Dialogue to Fiction and Nonfiction 189 Lori Czop Assaf
CHAPTER 20 Following Conventions for Writing Dialogue 199 Deborah Guidry and Neva Ann Medcalf
CHAPTER 21 Color-Coding Editing 209 Janet Richards
CHAPTER 22 Turning Up the Volume of Voice in Poetry 215 Cindy Lassonde
CHAPTER 23 STEP into the Shoes of a Reader 223 Noreen S. Moore
Section V Comprehensive Strategies
CHAPTER 24 Making Pictures 237 Gail Verdi and Susan Polirstok
CHAPTER 25 Comprehensive, Step-by-Step Composing for Nonfiction Writing 249 Janet Richards
CHAPTER 26 Mentoring Authors' Voices Through Readers' Theater 257 Timothy V. Rasinski and Chase J. Young
CHAPTER 27 Think Back, Look Forward 267 Tracy L. Coskie and M. Michelle Hornof
About the Authors 279
About the Contributors 281
Acknowledgments 287
Subject Index 289
Name Index 303
