Shannon Anderson

Writing from Scratch (eBook, PDF)

Lesson Plans to Boost Your Classroom Writing Instruction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Effective, engaging strategies that will boost your confidence in teaching writing

Writing from Scratch is a positive, encouraging book full of practical techniques for elementary teachers and students to get the most out of their writing time. Award-winning author Shannon Anderson presents specific, skill-based lessons through a running theme of baking and cooking. Each lesson, or "recipe," will help you serve up effective instruction on writing topics like idea generation, figurative language, plotting, and structure. This book is designed not just to develop student writing, but to develop students as writers. The experiences and guidance in Writing From Scratch will inspire you to plan a year-long curriculum-or jump in mid-year-for writing instruction that will make a difference for students today, and into the future.

• Get practical ideas for incorporating writing lessons into your elementary classroom
• Build writing exercises into content lessons, for added writing instruction
• Inspire students to get excited about writing and explore their identities as writers
• Gain the confidence you need to plan a full writing curriculum

Teachers in K-5 settings, as well as principals and education leaders, will benefit from this hands-on writing instruction guide. Perfect for solo use or as a guide for professional development, Writing From Scratch will have you cooking up fantastic writing lessons in no time!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 225
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781394281015
• Artikelnr.: 73252375

Autorenporträt

SHANNON ANDERSON is an award-winning children's author, educator, and speaker. She taught for 25 years, from first grade through college level, and was named one of 10 Teachers who Awed and Inspired by The Today Show in 2019. Anderson currently teaches at Franklin College as an Instructor of Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Note ix 
Cooking Success Tips xi 
How to Use This Book xiii 
01 Preheating the Oven 1 
Author Chair 1 
Writers' Notebooks 2 
Writing Folders 2 
Procedures 2 
Spelling 3 
Making the Most of Your Time 4 
02 Purposeful Planning 5 
Recipe: Apples to Apples 5 
03 Main Ingredients for Writing 9 
04 Recipes for Reviewing 11 
Recipe: Writing 11 
Recipe: Songs 16 
05 Generating Ideas 19 
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words 19 
Recipe: ME Page 20 
Recipe: Expert List 22 
06 Generating Focused Topics 25 
Recipe: Zooming In on Ideas 25 
Recipe: Narrowing Your Focus 26 
07 Adding Ideas: Elaboration Techniques 29 
Recipe: Adding Details and Dialogue 29 
Recipe: Adding Oomph to Persuade 31 
08 Organization 35 
Recipe: A Paragraph Has Legs 35 
Recipe: A Paragraph as Part of a Patio 37 
09 Organizing Fiction Writing 39 
Recipe: Two Rectangles + Four Squares Planner 39 
Recipe: Narrative Beginnings 42 
Recipe: Which Is the Real Intro? 43 
Recipe: Crafting Endings 44 
Recipe: The Mighty Middle of a Story 46 
Recipe: Story Spine Technique 48 
10 Developing Characters 51 
Recipe: Playing with POV 51 
Recipe: Switching POV 52 
Recipe: Inside and Outside Descriptions 54 
Recipe: Setting the Setting 56 
11 Organizing Informational Writing 59 
Recipe: Informational Beginnings 59 
Recipe: Research Writing 60 
Recipe: Text Feature Scavenger Hunt 62 
Recipe: Adding Text Features 64 
12 Playing with Structures 67 
Recipe: How- to Writing 68 
Recipe: Alphabet Structure 69 
Recipe: Compare and Contrast 70 
Recipe: Cumulative Structure 72 
Recipe: Diary Structure 73 
Recipe: Parallel Structure 74 
Recipe: Letters from Around the World 76 
Recipe: End- of- Year Letters 78 
Recipe: Question and Answer Format 79 
13 Word Choice 81 
Recipe: Strong Verbs 81 
Recipe: Precise Nouns 82 
Recipe: Vivid Descriptions 84 
Recipe: Sensory Details 85 
14 Using Figurative Language Devices 87 
Recipe: Let's Alliterate! 87 
Recipe: Noisy Words (Onomatopoeia!) 89 
Recipe: Best Hyperboles in the Entire World! 90 
Recipe: Personification Stations 93 
Recipe: What Is Assonance? 95 
Recipe: Similes Are as Easy as Pie! 96 
Recipe: Making Metaphors 98 
Recipe: Idiomatic Expressions 99 
15 Adding Humor 103 
Recipe: Pun- tastic Word Play 103 
Recipe: Comic Clash 104 
16 Making It Flow 107 
Recipe: Go with the Flow! 107 
Recipe: Transition Types 109 
Recipe: Trying Transitions 111 
17 Emotion 113 
Recipe: Voice Role- Play 113 
Recipe: Ewww and Awww Contest 115 
Recipe: Show, Don't Tell 116 
18 Grammar and Editing 119 
Recipe: Check, Please! 121 
Recipe: Dialogue Done Right 124 
19 Revising 127 
Recipe: Advise and Revise 128 
20 Assessment 131 
Recipe: Writing Review Rubric 132 
Recipe: Rubric- Ready 134 
Recipe: Collaborative Conferences 136 
Recipe: Teacher and Student Conferences 137 
21 Creative Writing Exercises 139 
Recipe: Quote- tastic! 139 
Recipe: Write It Down, Pass It Around 141 
Recipe: You've Got 30 Seconds! 142 
Recipe: Ode to Food 144 
Recipe: Cookbook 145 
Recipe: Vote for Me! 147 
Recipe: Stick with the Script! 149 
Recipe: I Didn't Know That! 151 
Recipe: Weighty Words 152 
Recipe: Picture Prompts 153 
Recipe: Squiggle Story 155 
Recipe: Fractured Fairy Tale 156 
Recipe: Tiny Teacher 157 
Recipe: Branching Narrative Story 159 
Recipe: Newscast 161 
22 Poetry 163 
Recipe: Rhyme Time! 163 
Recipe: Haiku 165 
Recipe: Cinquain 166 
Recipe: Shape Poems 168 
Recipe: Fingerprint Poem 171 
23 Other Writing Forms 175 
Recipe: Daily Journaling 175 
Recipe: Writing from the Wild 177 
Recipe: Biography Projects 179 
Recipe: Career Exploration Projects 180 
Recipe: Class News 182 
Recipe: Goal Setting 184 
24 End- of- Year Publishing Project 187 
Mentor Text List 191 
A Note to Teachers 193 
Acknowledgments 195 
About the Author 197 
Index 199