Nonfiction Read & Write Booklets: Human Body (Grades 2–3)
Help students navigate nonfiction and develop reading, writing, and critical- thinking skills with ten instant fill-in booklets on the human body. Booklets features lively text, charts, diagrams, thought-provoking writing prompts, and more. Students read, write, and draw to personalize the booklets and demonstrate their comprehension. A highly motivating format!
Focused instruction on important nonfiction writing forms!
Nonfiction Writing provides 16 units of instruction and practice activities. Each unit focuses on a specific nonfiction writing form and includes guided lessons with accompanying student pages that target skills essential to that writing form. The units are grouped into three sections: expository, persuasive, and narrative writing.
The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing
The time is right for this new and groundbreaking approach. The most popular books on composition take a formalistic view, utilizing “templates” in order to mimic the sorts of rhetorical moves academics make. While this is a valuable element of a writing education, there is room for something that speaks more broadly. The Writer’s Practice invites students and novice writers into an intellectually engaging, active learning process that prepares them for a wider range of academic and real-world writing and allows them to become invested and engaged in their own work.
Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts into Books 5 Revised EditionWriting Nonfiction provides a roadmap. The reader will learn how to break a topic down into easy-to-attack projects; how and where to do research; a process that makes writing easy; how to improve material; how to evaluate publishing options and how to develop an individualized and workable plan
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Teaching Evidence-Based Writing: Nonfiction: Texts and Lessons for Spot-On Writing About Reading
For Evidence-Based Writing: Nonfiction, renowned teacher Leslie Blauman combed the standards and her classroom bookshelves to craft lessons that use the best nonfiction picture books, biographies, and article excerpts to make writing about reading a clear, concrete process. Students learn to analyze and cite evidence about main idea, point of view, visuals, and words and structure.