Full Description
Standardized tests and college essay prompts demand that students produce quality analytical writing about abstract concepts. But how do you actually teach this kind of writing? Award-winning authors Gretchen Bernabei and Judi Reimer make it easy and fun. This book includes 35 engaging lessons that give students just the focused practice they need to craft effective, analytical writing for any situation.
Centered on classic fairy tales and designed for students of all ages, each lesson includes a writing prompt accompanied by a planning framework. Students write a truism, select or create a text structure, and write a kernel essay that serves as scaffolding for a detailed rhetorical piece. With practice, students move from depending on teacher guidance to becoming autonomous analytical writers. The teacher-friendly layout and built-in flexibility of the book empower you to
Use each fairy tale lesson for reading, for writing, or for both
Cluster lessons around a particular literacy concept or use each as a standalone lesson
Pair fairy tales thematically with other readings
Customize the text structure options to meet the needs of your individual students
Encourage students to create their own text structures
Teach students simple ways to expand their ideas into detailed, rich essays
Additional ideas for how to use the lessons, a complete collection of text structures, craft lessons on revision, and a list of conversation strategies are also included.
Put Text Structures From Fairy Tales to work in your classroom and soon your students will be writing happily ever after.
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
Lessons: Student Planning Pages with Fairy Tale Texts
Structure for Writing About Life Themes
1. Beauty and the Beast
2. The Bremen Town Musicians
3. Cinderella
4. Diamonds and Toads
5. The Elves and the Shoemaker
Structures for Explaining a Concept
6. The Emperor's New Clothes
7. The Fisherman and His Wife
8. The Frog Prince
9. The Gingerbread Boy
10. The Golden Goose
Structures for Character Analysis
11. Hansel and Gretel
12. Henny Penny
13. Jack and the Beanstalk
14. The Little Red Hen
15. Little Red Riding Hood
Structures for Analyzing a Theme in Literature
16. The Nightingale
17. One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes
18. The Princess and the pea
19. Puss in Boots
20. Rapunzel
Structures for Commentary About Plot
21. Rumpelstiltskin
22. The Sleeping Beauty
23. Snow White
24. Snow White and Rose Red
25. The Three Bears
Structures for Making an Argument
26. The Three Billy Goats Gruff
27. The Three Little Pigs
28. The Three Sillies
29. Thumbelina
30. The Tinderbox
Structures for Content-Area Writing
31. Tom Thumb
32. The Twelve Dancing Princesses
33. The Ugly Duckling
34. The Wild Swans
35. The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
Appendix
i. Complete Text Structures Collections
ii. 25 More Things to do With These Lessons
iii. Blank Student Planning Page for Black Line Master
iv. Text Chunkyard
v. Get Student Writers Talking: Conversation Strategies
vi. Steps for the Truism Braid Essay
vii. Reader Rubric with Words and Faces
viii. Intensity Scale
ix. What's Better... This? Or That?
x. Ms. Kern's Final Exam Project and Timetable
xi. Craft Lessons for Revision
a. Truisms
b. Adding Details
c. Sparkling Sentences
d. 11-Minute Essays
e. Ba-da-bing!
f. Writer's Toolbox with Dead Giveaways
g. Writing Book Reports
