Authors craft

Reading like a writer on the iPad - 3 activities to strengthen the writer's eye and teach author's craft Integrating technology during writing tends to be the most accessible. Most people have some level of comfort with planning lessons for students to type stories for publishing. The next logical step from there may be to think about publishing on a global scale through blogs or to write authentically via social media. Sorry friends, that is not what this post is about because you can read…

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The Very Ugly Bug isn't happy with how she looks and she wishes that she looked more like the grasshopper with his smooth green back, the shiny blue bug...

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Teaching students to write for a specific purpose is one of my favorite skills to teach. Students enjoy drawing sketches that illustrate different writing

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Author's Craft... A free lesson that uses a mentor text to teach upper elementary students about the craft of being an author, author perspective, word plays, and thinking "About the Text"

Everyone has their favorite mentor texts for teaching writer's craft, but check out this website to see it you can add some new books to your writer's craft repertoire: http://www.mauryk12.org/Literacy/writing%20mentor%20texts.htm Shannon Reynolds, 3rd grade teacher at Espy, shared this wonderful website with us. The website has categorized picture books/mentor texts and what writing craft/s you can teach with each book. You will find a book list for each category listed below: Creating…

When I attended the Pre-Ap Conference this summer, we were taught various ways to help students interact and understand the authors' tone, theme, etc. One of these exercises was called "DIDLS" (Diction, Images, Details, Language, Sentence Structure). I worked with them on a passage from The Wednesday Wars last week and it went SO WELL!! They got it!! Exercise: Gary D. Schmidt, author of The Wednesday Wars, Okay for Now, and many others has an incredible way of writing which makes you feel…

As the saying goes, a picture is worth 1,000 words, so it's no wonder so many authors incorporate symbolism into their writing. The visual nature of symbolism also makes it a fun concept to teach to students. Whether you are teaching symbolism as a new co