59 Reasons to Write - Mini-lessons, Prompts, and Inspiration for Teachers

Informationen zum Autor Kate Messner is the award-winning author of more than a dozen current and forthcoming books for young readers. Her first novel, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z., won the 2010 E.B. White Read-Aloud Medal for Older Readers, while its follow-up, Sugar and Ice (Walker/Bloomsbury, 2010), was a Junior Library Guild selection. Kate is also the author of the popular Marty McGuire chapter book series and Silver Jaguar Society Mysteries with Scholastic. Kate lives on Lake Champlain, USA. Klappentext Only by engaging in the real work of writing can teachers become part of the writing community they dream of creating for their students. In her new book, 59 Reasons to Write, Kate Messner offers mini-lessons, writing prompts, and bursts of inspiration designed to get you writing every day, whether on your own or as part of a group. Zusammenfassung In order to teach writing effectively, teachers must be writers themselves. They must experience the same uncertainty of starting a new draft and then struggling to revise. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Getting Started; Chapter 3: Organizing; Chapter 4: Characters; Chapter 5: Point of View, Voice, and Mood; Chapter 6: Setting; Chapter 7: Plot and Pacing; Chapter 8: Flowing Between Nonfiction and Fiction: Finding the Story; Chapter 9: Poetry; Chapter 10: I'm Stuck!; Chapter 11: Revising and Critiquing; Chapter 12: Time to Reflect

Product details

• Authors: Kate Messner, Messner Kate
• Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.2015
• EAN: 9781625310033
• ISBN: 978-1-62531-003-3
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Language Arts / Handwriting, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: First / native language: Handwriting skills, Educational: writing skills: handwriting, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General