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Corwin Literacy

6 total works

Cover of Text Structures From Poetry, Grades 4-12

"Pop the hood" on fifty poems to discover what makes them work and lead the way to a rewarding love of poetry for teachers and students alike.


Cover of Text Structures From Fairy Tales
This book teaches students how to write using a text structure to organize their writing, then how to choose a text structure. With a little practice, students go from completely dependent on teacher guidance to completely autonomous designers of their pieces. The scaffolding leads the student, but also the teacher, toward more student choices.

Cover of Text Structures from the Masters
By examining the structure of mentor texts, students learn how to use the text structure of each document to create their own essays. The techniques are simple to use and effective, enabling even struggling readers with the tools to understand the methods the writer is using.

Cover of Text Structures From Nursery Rhymes

It’s one of education’s greatest challenges: How do we shape our youngest students, who often are just learning how to hold a pencil, into capable writers within the span of a single school year?

Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes offers the solution: a clear and actionable framework for guiding young students to write successfully in any style, from narrative to descriptive to persuasive.

The key to the strategy lies in using familiar text structures to break down a story into its main components — for example, "Where I was," "Who I saw," and "What I thought"  — in order to immediately thrust students into the role of the writer. 

This groundbreaking book provides 53 lessons, each centered around a classic nursery rhyme, and all the tools you’ll need to

  • Capitalize on the story’s rhythm and rhyme to make an instant connection with your students
  • Convey the story’s text structure using the lesson’s whimsical illustrations, providing a visual model that resonates with children
  • Lead the classroom in creating new stories — in words, pictures, or both — utilizing the text structure you’ve defined
  • Put each nursery rhyme to work as a springboard for important language-arts topics
  • Fine-tune your approach at every step based on your preferred teaching style and students’ progress

Put Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes to work in your classroom and discover how text structures, already a remarkable success in later grades, can also have a profound impact on younger students’ progress. 

Bonus!
Includes eight downloadable paper dolls—1 man, 1 woman, 1 girl, 1 boy, and 4 animals. Your students can use the paper dolls to retell the nursery rhymes, illustrate their own stories based on a nursery rhyme, or even to act out stories from other books in your classroom library.
 

Cover of Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning
Gretchen Bernabei and Judi Reimer present 95 craft lessons based on real student essays. The premise of the book is that "kids learn from each other faster and more deeply than they learn from us." These real tests are an "instructional gold mine" for modeling narrative, argument, and analytical writing techniques. These are the main kinds of writing taught, tested, and even outlined in the Common Core Standards. An innovative, fun, and easy-to-use resource for teachers looking to improve their writing instruction.

Cover of Text Structures and Fables

Want to improve writing about reading? Use these lessons and concrete text structures designed to help students write self-generated commentary in response to reading.