Text Structures from the Masters: 50 Lessons and Nonfiction Mentor Texts to Help Students Write Their Way In and Read Their Way Out of Every Imainable Genre
Using powerful historical documents as a springboard for reading and writing instruction, this session reaches students in social studies and history classrooms as well as those in ELAR instruction. Lessons may include:
· Write your own: “Picking up the Pieces”
· Connection: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation
· Itches and Scratches: Busting myths about academic writing
· Write about a character: “A Bad Situation a Lot of Us are In”
· Connection: Lester Hunter’s song
· Write refusals: “No, Thank You”
· Connection: Letter to William and Mary College, the Indians of the Six Nations
· Write persuasively: “Problem-Solution Message”
· Connection: The Declaration of Independence
· Ways to use this book across content areas