Writing about Reading: From Book Talk to Literary Essays, Grades 3-8Janet Angelillo introduces us to an entirely new way of thinking about writing about reading. She shows us how to teach students to manage all the thinking and questioning that precedes their putting pen to paper. More than that, she offers us smarter ways to have students write about their reading that can last them a lifetime. She demonstrates how students' responses to reading can
Ensure that your students will be readers and writers long after they leave you. Get them enthused and empowered to use whatever they read-facts, statistics, the latest book--as fuel for writing in school and in their working lives. Read Angelillo. |
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You Have to Have an Idea | 1 |
Thinking and Talking About Texts | 18 |
Literary Thinking Across Texts | 31 |
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ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT Students adhesive notes aloud Artemis Fowl ask students author profile begin book reviews Camp Green Lake characters chil children to write choose chunks connections conversations DAY Students decide draft dren E. B. White Esperanza Rising evidence facts genres of writing Gilly Hopkins grade Harry Potter ideas insights jottings landmark books landmark texts Lemony Snicket literary essays longer entries longer pieces longer writing look Louis Sachar Lucy Calkins mentor texts minilesson MODEL The teacher nonfiction paragraph partner partnerships plot read-aloud book readers notebook reading and writing reflect reread response Roll of Thunder scaffold sentences story strategies Students write take notes talk about books taught teach children TEACHING POINT Writers tell things think about books think and talk thought topic understand unit of study write longer writers notebook writing about reading writing workshop York