State tests are assessing reading and writing together—Are you ready?
I wish students would interact with a text on their own…I wish it wasn’t like pulling teeth to get them to elaborate their thinking. Wish no more, because bestselling author Gretchen Bernabei shows you how to guide students to be nimble at both short answer and extended responses. Her secret? ‘Teach students text structures, and they can pour their swirling ideas about the text into cogent writing.’
Using the accessible format of fables, Bernabei and Hover share lessons and an appendix full of fables so you can teach students five concrete ways to respond to text in any genre:
The heat is on—beginning in third grade, state tests are now assessing reading and writing together. And that’s a good thing, but we’ve got some catching up to do. With Text Structures and Fables in hand, your students will swiftly and surely become text-savvy readers and writers.
Table des matières
PART I. BUILDING STRONG READERS AND WRITERS
LESSON 1. RESPONDING TO READING
LESSON 2. WRITING FICTION FOR READERS
LESSON 3. WRITING ESSAYS ABOUT THE MORAL
FABLE THEMES 1–10
PART II. ASSESSING STRONG READERS AND WRITERS
LESSON 4. WRITING ANSWERS TO COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
LESSON 5. WRITING ANSWERS ABOUT THE AUTHOR’S CRAFT
FABLE THEMES 11–20
PART III. USING NONTRADITIONAL FORMATS
LESSON 6. THE QA12345 DIALOGUE
LESSON 7. INFOSHOT (CUBING): SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW
LESSON 8. BA-DA-BING
LESSON 9. THREE-THINGS RESPONSE
LESSON 10. ONE-LINERS
FABLE THEMES 21–30
A propos de l’auteur
With more than 30 years in education, Jayne Hover has taught elementary, middle, and high school and been an administrator in several roles. She loves helping kids develop confidence through writing and has been instrumental in improving scores drastically on state-mandated tests. Jayne is a co-author of Crunchtime (2009, Heinemann), Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes (2018, Corwin), and Text Structures and Fables, Teaching Students to Write About What They Read (2023, Corwin). She lives near San Antonio, Texas and enjoys spending time with her husband, Jim.
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