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Finding the Heart of Nonfiction: Teaching 7 Essential Craft Tools with Mentor Texts [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 152 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 233x188x11 mm, weight: 272 g, Illustrations, black and white
  • Išleidimo metai: 05-Sep-2013
  • Leidėjas: Heinemann Educational Books,U.S.
  • ISBN-10: 0325046476
  • ISBN-13: 9780325046471
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 152 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 233x188x11 mm, weight: 272 g, Illustrations, black and white
  • Išleidimo metai: 05-Sep-2013
  • Leidėjas: Heinemann Educational Books,U.S.
  • ISBN-10: 0325046476
  • ISBN-13: 9780325046471
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
This resource for elementary teachers suggests specific titles in four nonfiction categories: expository, narrative, persuasive, and descriptive. Author Heard, founder of the Teacher's College Reading and Writing Project, gives advice on choosing from among the recommended mentor texts and using them in the classroom. She also provides specific lesson ideas, assignments, and projects, such as six-word memoirs, writing inspired by visual imagery, and using dialogue. Throughout the book, the author addresses how the assignments will help students meet the Common Core State Standards. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

"Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction."
-Georgia Heard

Humanity and warmth are the cornerstones of quality nonfiction writing. But how can students create them in genres that at first seem more informational than intimate? In Finding the Heart of Nonfiction, Georgia Heard shows how mentor texts can help students read for seven essential craft tools and then use them to create inviting nonfiction that keeps readers' interest.

Lyrical and practical, Finding the Heart of Nonfiction describes how to choose mentor texts, use them, and mine them for exemplary instruction. Between these suggestions and the instructional ideas, Georgia shows how students can write nonfiction that informs and inspires. You'll find thoughtful, immediately useful support as you:

  • introduce nonfiction with her handpicked, reproducible mentor texts
  • get students writing with the instructional ideas in Georgia's "Try This" sections
  • familiarize writers with nonfiction craft and text features
  • connect nonfiction work to the Common Core State Standards
  • collect mentor texts tailored to your students.

"My hope," writes Georgia, "is that you and your students will be inspired by the mentor texts I've chosen-but also inspired to seek out your own mentor texts and continue to explore the world through nonfiction." Trust Finding the Heart of Nonfiction and help your students write with purpose, voice, and passion.

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Acknowledgments xi
Introduction Mentor Texts: Opening the World to Writing xiii
Part 1 Nonfiction Mentor Texts: Learning to Write from Writers
1(36)
What Are Mentor Texts?
3(2)
My Nonfiction Mentor Texts
5(3)
Types of Nonfiction
8(1)
Expository Writing
9(1)
Narrative Nonfiction
9(1)
Persuasive, Opinion, and Argumentative Writing
10(1)
Descriptive Nonfiction
11(2)
Choosing Nonfiction Mentor Texts
13(6)
Try This Modeling with Your Own Mentor Texts
15(4)
Reproducible My Mentor Text Note-Taking Sheet
19(1)
Reading Nonfiction with Different Lenses
20(5)
Try This Using Different Lenses to Read
22(3)
Ways to Include Nonfiction Mentor Texts in the Classroom
25(1)
Read-Aloud and Immersion
25(2)
Student Nonfiction Anthologies
27(6)
Try This Creating Nonfiction Mentor Text Anthologies
28(2)
Try This Fitting It All in with Nonfiction Mondays
30(3)
Mining Mentor Texts for Craft Teaching Possibilities
33(4)
Part 2 Teaching 7 Nonfiction Craft Tools with Mentor Texts
37(86)
Keep It Simple
39(2)
1 Focus: The Hearth of Nonfiction Writing
41(10)
Ask Questions
43(1)
Focus on Your Interests and Passion
43(1)
Find Your Purpose and Audience
43(1)
Study Mentor Texts
44(1)
Distill Information
44(7)
Try This Distilling Information into a Six-Word Memoir
45(2)
Try This Studying Titles to Learn About Focus
47(2)
Try This Writing a Poem to Help Focus a Topic
49(2)
2 Turning Facts into Scenes: Writing with Imagery
51(9)
Try This Writing with Imagery (more experienced writers)
52(3)
Try This Writing with Imagery (less experienced writers)
55(2)
Try This Writing Photo-Essays: Being Inspired by Visual Imagery
57(2)
Reproducible Turning Facts into Scenes: Writing with Imagery
59(1)
3 Leads: The Doorway into Writing
60(8)
Types of Leads
61(5)
Try This Learning from Leads
64(2)
Reproducible Leads
66(2)
4 Point of View and Voice: Who Are We When We Write?
68(8)
Point of View
68(3)
Try This Studying Point of View
70(1)
Reproducible Point of View
71(2)
Voice: Who Are We When We Write?
73(2)
Try This Considering Voice
74(1)
Reproducible Voice: Who Are We When We Write?
75(1)
5 Precise Language: Details, Details, and More Details
76(19)
Sensory Words
77(2)
Try This Using Sensory Words
78(1)
Reproducible Sensory Words
79(1)
Precise Language: Concrete Nouns and Active Verbs
80(4)
Try This Using Precise Language
83(1)
Reproducible Precise Language: Concrete Nouns and Active Verbs
84(1)
Figurative Language
85(3)
Try-This Using Personification to Make Nonfiction Writing Come Alive
88(1)
Reproducible Figurative Language: Simile and Metaphor
89(1)
Reproducible Figurative Language: Personification
90(1)
Domain-Specific Vocabulary
91(4)
Try This Generating Domain-Specific Vocabulary
94(1)
6 Text Structures: Writing Bird by Bird
95(8)
Types of Nonfiction Text Structures
95(3)
Chapters and Sections: Breaking Writing into Parts
98(5)
Try This Structuring and Organizing Nonfiction
102(1)
7 Endings: Letting Words Linger
103(20)
Types of Endings
104(3)
Reproducible Endings
107(1)
Nuts and Bolts: More Tools of the Nonfiction Trade
108(1)
Using Nonfiction Text Features in Meaningful Ways
108(4)
Using Dialogue and Quotes from Primary Source Material
112(3)
Ensuring Truth and Accuracy
115(1)
Varying Sentence Length
115(5)
Citing Sources and Creating a Bibliography
120(3)
Conclusion 123(2)
Works Cited and Bibliography 125