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Introduction Mentor Texts: Opening the World to Writing |
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Part 1 Nonfiction Mentor Texts: Learning to Write from Writers |
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My Nonfiction Mentor Texts |
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Persuasive, Opinion, and Argumentative Writing |
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Choosing Nonfiction Mentor Texts |
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Try This Modeling with Your Own Mentor Texts |
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Reproducible My Mentor Text Note-Taking Sheet |
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Reading Nonfiction with Different Lenses |
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Try This Using Different Lenses to Read |
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Ways to Include Nonfiction Mentor Texts in the Classroom |
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Student Nonfiction Anthologies |
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Try This Creating Nonfiction Mentor Text Anthologies |
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Try This Fitting It All in with Nonfiction Mondays |
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30 | (3) |
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Mining Mentor Texts for Craft Teaching Possibilities |
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33 | (4) |
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Part 2 Teaching 7 Nonfiction Craft Tools with Mentor Texts |
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39 | (2) |
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1 Focus: The Hearth of Nonfiction Writing |
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Focus on Your Interests and Passion |
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Find Your Purpose and Audience |
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Try This Distilling Information into a Six-Word Memoir |
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Try This Studying Titles to Learn About Focus |
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47 | (2) |
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Try This Writing a Poem to Help Focus a Topic |
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49 | (2) |
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2 Turning Facts into Scenes: Writing with Imagery |
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51 | (9) |
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Try This Writing with Imagery (more experienced writers) |
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52 | (3) |
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Try This Writing with Imagery (less experienced writers) |
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55 | (2) |
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Try This Writing Photo-Essays: Being Inspired by Visual Imagery |
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Reproducible Turning Facts into Scenes: Writing with Imagery |
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3 Leads: The Doorway into Writing |
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60 | (8) |
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61 | (5) |
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Try This Learning from Leads |
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4 Point of View and Voice: Who Are We When We Write? |
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Try This Studying Point of View |
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Reproducible Point of View |
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Voice: Who Are We When We Write? |
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Try This Considering Voice |
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Reproducible Voice: Who Are We When We Write? |
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5 Precise Language: Details, Details, and More Details |
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Try This Using Sensory Words |
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Reproducible Sensory Words |
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Precise Language: Concrete Nouns and Active Verbs |
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Try This Using Precise Language |
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Reproducible Precise Language: Concrete Nouns and Active Verbs |
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Try-This Using Personification to Make Nonfiction Writing Come Alive |
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Reproducible Figurative Language: Simile and Metaphor |
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Reproducible Figurative Language: Personification |
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Domain-Specific Vocabulary |
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Try This Generating Domain-Specific Vocabulary |
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6 Text Structures: Writing Bird by Bird |
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Types of Nonfiction Text Structures |
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Chapters and Sections: Breaking Writing into Parts |
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Try This Structuring and Organizing Nonfiction |
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7 Endings: Letting Words Linger |
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104 | (3) |
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107 | (1) |
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Nuts and Bolts: More Tools of the Nonfiction Trade |
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108 | (1) |
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Using Nonfiction Text Features in Meaningful Ways |
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108 | (4) |
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Using Dialogue and Quotes from Primary Source Material |
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112 | (3) |
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Ensuring Truth and Accuracy |
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Citing Sources and Creating a Bibliography |
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Conclusion |
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Works Cited and Bibliography |
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