Text Structures

Author : Dianne Dillabough,Jeff Siamon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-10
Category : English language
ISBN : 0176337342

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Text Structures by Dianne Dillabough,Jeff Siamon Pdf

Written by a classroom teacher, this book provides an instructional approach to teaching students the structures of expository text in Grades 3?8. Using graphic organizers to visually depict the structures, the author takes a close look at seven patterns or structures: sequence, enumerative, compare/contrast, cause/effect and problem/solution, description, and question/answer. The book illustrates how to introduce children from Grades 3?8 to different text patterns or structures to assist them in both their reading and writing of expository text. Additional chapters examine the reading/writing connection; signal words; and essay writing. Designed as a teacher resource tool, lesson approaches, text samples and evaluation tools are provided as blackline masters in the book.

Author : Gretchen Bernabei,Jennifer Koppe
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506332864

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Text Structures From the Masters by Gretchen Bernabei,Jennifer Koppe Pdf

Text Structures from the Masters provides 50 short texts written by famous Americans driven by what Peter Elbow described as “an itch” to say something. By examining the structure of these mentor texts, students see that they too have an “itch” and learn how to use the text structure of each document to express it. Each 4-page lesson includes: A planning sheet that shows the structure of the mentor text Brainstorming boxes A method for “kernelizing” (outlining) their own essay Student examples

Author : Gretchen Bernabei,Kayla Shook,Jayne Hover
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506387956

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Text Structures From Nursery Rhymes by Gretchen Bernabei,Kayla Shook,Jayne Hover Pdf

It’s one of education’s greatest challenges: How do we shape our youngest students, who often are just learning how to hold a pencil, into capable writers within the span of a single school year? Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes offers the solution: a clear and actionable framework for guiding young students to write successfully in any style, from narrative to descriptive to persuasive. The key to the strategy lies in using familiar text structures to break down a story into its main components — for example, "Where I was," "Who I saw," and "What I thought" — in order to immediately thrust students into the role of the writer. This groundbreaking book provides 53 lessons, each centered around a classic nursery rhyme, and all the tools you’ll need to Capitalize on the story’s rhythm and rhyme to make an instant connection with your students Convey the story’s text structure using the lesson’s whimsical illustrations, providing a visual model that resonates with children Lead the classroom in creating new stories — in words, pictures, or both — utilizing the text structure you’ve defined Put each nursery rhyme to work as a springboard for important language-arts topics Fine-tune your approach at every step based on your preferred teaching style and students’ progress Put Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes to work in your classroom and discover how text structures, already a remarkable success in later grades, can also have a profound impact on younger students’ progress. Bonus! Includes eight downloadable paper dolls—1 man, 1 woman, 1 girl, 1 boy, and 4 animals. Your students can use the paper dolls to retell the nursery rhymes, illustrate their own stories based on a nursery rhyme, or even to act out stories from other books in your classroom library.

Author : Gail Saunders-Smith
Publisher : Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781934338384

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Non-Fiction Text Structures for Better Comprehension and Response by Gail Saunders-Smith Pdf

Non-fiction text structures organize information into comprehensible patterns. Knowing how to recognize and use these structures to navigate non-fiction text greatly improves students' understanding of what they read. Gail Saunders-Smith simplifies the process by providing teachers of grades 4-8 with: ways to teach each of the five non-fiction text structures: compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequence/procedure, question/answer, and exemplification; engaging whole-class and small-group activities using written, verbal, image, three-dimensional, and technology responses; study skills for locating, recording, and using information; tools for assessing student understanding, and explanations of the text features that organize information within the text structures; and mini-lessons for whole-class, small-group, and independent application of students' text structure knowledge. Examples, photographs, student samples, and graphic organizers support your teaching, and a bibliography of professional books and resources for locating leveled non-fiction texts make this a complete, ready-to-use guide for improving student comprehension.

Author : Gretchen Bernabei,Laura Van Prooyen
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781544398860

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Text Structures From Poetry, Grades 4-12 by Gretchen Bernabei,Laura Van Prooyen Pdf

Poetry is a joyful art form, but how do you teach students to joyfully read, analyze, and write poems? In Text Structures from Poetry, Grades 4-12, award-winning educator Gretchen Bernabei teams up with noted poet Laura Van Prooyen to light the path. Centered around 50 classroom-proven lesson and poem pairs, the mentor texts represent a broad range of voices in contemporary poetry and the canon. These unique and engaging lessons show educators how to "pop the hood" on a poem to discover what makes it work, using text structures to unlock the engine of a poem. This method enables educators to engage students in reading and re-reading a poem closely, to identify how the parts of the poem relate to each other to create movement, and to leverage what they have learned to write their own evocative poems. Each of the 50 lessons includes a mentor poem that serves as an excellent model for young writers, a diagram that illustrates the text structure of the poem, and several inspiring examples of student poems written to emulate the mentor poem. Easy-to-use instructional resources enhance instructor and student understanding and include: Teaching notes for unlocking the text structure of a poem and the engine that makes it work. Tips for exploring rhyme scheme, meter, and fixed forms. Instructional sequences that vary the ways students can read and write poems and other prose forms. Ideas for revising and publishing student poems. A "Meet the Contemporary Authors" section that includes fascinating messages from the contemporary poets. Teach your students to learn about poetry using the magic of poems themselves and lead the way to a rewarding love of poetry for teachers and students alike.

Author : Gretchen Bernabei,Jennifer Koppe
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506332840

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Text Structures From the Masters by Gretchen Bernabei,Jennifer Koppe Pdf

Text Structures from the Masters provides 50 short texts written by famous Americans driven by what Peter Elbow described as “an itch” to say something. By examining the structure of these mentor texts, students see that they too have an “itch” and learn how to use the text structure of each document to express it. Each 4-page lesson includes: A planning sheet that shows the structure of the mentor text Brainstorming boxes A method for “kernelizing” (outlining) their own essay Student examples

Author : Gretchen Bernabei,Jayne Hover
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781071901472

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Text Structures and Fables by Gretchen Bernabei,Jayne Hover Pdf

State tests are assessing reading and writing together—Are you ready? I wish students would interact with a text on their own...I wish it wasn’t like pulling teeth to get them to elaborate their thinking. Wish no more, because bestselling author Gretchen Bernabei shows you how to guide students to be nimble at both short answer and extended responses. Her secret? "Teach students text structures, and they can pour their swirling ideas about the text into cogent writing." Using the accessible format of fables, Bernabei and Hover share lessons and an appendix full of fables so you can teach students five concrete ways to respond to text in any genre: Generate basic responses, using structures that support clarity Craft fiction inspired by the text to unveil literary knowledge and imaginative response Write essays about a theme or moral that display empathic and evidence-based interpretation Answer open-ended questions by selecting a technique that reflects the text and their engagement Use non-traditional formats like graphics and spoken dialogue to showcase their learning The heat is on—beginning in third grade, state tests are now assessing reading and writing together. And that’s a good thing, but we’ve got some catching up to do. With Text Structures and Fables in hand, your students will swiftly and surely become text-savvy readers and writers.

Author : Sue Dymock,Tom Nicholson
Publisher : Teaching Resources
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Reading (Higher education)
ISBN : 0545011035

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Teaching Text Structures by Sue Dymock,Tom Nicholson Pdf

Two professors share their research-based, field-tested approach for helping students identify and analyze the most common expository text structures in order to better comprehend the nonfiction they read. Students gain valuable experience recognizing descriptive, sequential, problem-solution, and cause-effect patterns in texts. Using graphic organizers helps them visualize and remember key information in the article. Detailed lesson plans with companion reproducible articles and diagrams help teachers confidently put theory into practice. For use with Grades 46."

Author : Barbara Moss
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1572305460

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Exploring the Literature of Fact by Barbara Moss Pdf

Filling a crucial need for K-6 teachers, this book provides practical strategies for using nonfiction trade books in language arts and content area instruction. Research-based, classroom-tested ideas are spelled out to help teachers: *Select from among the many wonderful nonfiction trade books available *Incorporate nonfiction into the classroom *Work with students to develop comprehension strategies for informational texts *Elicit responses to nonfiction through drama, writing, and discussion *Use nonfiction to promote content area learning and research skills Unique features of the book include teacher-created lesson plans, extensive lists of recommended books (including choices for reluctant readers), illustrative examples of student work, and suggestions for linking nonfiction reading to the use of the World Wide Web.

Author : Patricia A. Antonacci,Patricia Antonacci,Catherine M. O’Callaghan
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412972833

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Developing Content Area Literacy by Patricia A. Antonacci,Patricia Antonacci,Catherine M. O’Callaghan Pdf

Strategies for Developing Content Area Literacy in Middle and Secondary Classrooms addresses the challenges facing students as they move from learning to read in the primary grades to reading to learn in the middle and secondary classrooms; and it will offer a description of the components for all effective adolescent literacy programs that should be required as part of the middle and high school curriculum. The heart of the book will offer classroom teachers in primary and secondary schools an easy-to-follow and comprehensive set of instructional strategies for students' development of literacy skills for reading, writing, and studying in the content areas.

Author : Sandra F. Rief,Julie A. Heimburge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780787988050

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How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy by Sandra F. Rief,Julie A. Heimburge Pdf

How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy offers you a handbook for teaching literacy to diverse students in grades 3-8. The balanced literacy method combines the best practices of phonics and other skill-based language instruction with the holistic, literature-based approach in order to help you teach reading, writing, and speaking in a clear and approachable format. This dynamic resource offers an easily accessible research-based approach to balanced literacy that is grounded in the innovative ideas developed by authors Sandra F. Rief and Julie A. Heimburge. The book includes detailed descriptions of what a balanced literacy classroom looks like and shows how to create a program from the ground up or give your existing program a boost. The book can be used across content areas and is filled with reproducible worksheets, activities, and other handy classroom tools. Some topics covered include: Shared book experiences Reading aloud Oral language and vocabulary development Guided reading for comprehension Modeled writing Reading and writing conferences Book clubs Content area reading and writing Ongoing assessments Enhancing literacy through technology

Author : Angela Carrasquillo,Stephen B. Kucer,Ruth Abrams
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 185359749X

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Beyond the Beginnings by Angela Carrasquillo,Stephen B. Kucer,Ruth Abrams Pdf

The book addresses the curricular, instructional, and assessment needs of upper grade elementary teachers who are struggling to promote literacy development in their English language learners. These students have already been transitioned, yet struggle with the increased literacy demands in the upper grades.

Author : Social Studies School Service
Publisher : Social Studies
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560042419

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Strategic Reading in U. S. History by Social Studies School Service Pdf

Author : Gary A. Troia
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781609180300

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Instruction and Assessment for Struggling Writers by Gary A. Troia Pdf

This unique book focuses on how to provide effective instruction to K-12 students who find writing challenging, including English language learners and those with learning disabilities or language impairments. Prominent experts illuminate the nature of writing difficulties and offer practical suggestions for building students' skills at the word, sentence, and text levels. Topics include writing workshop instruction; strategies to support the writing process, motivation, and self-regulation; composing in the content areas; classroom technologies; spelling instruction for diverse learners; and assessment approaches. Every chapter is grounded in research and geared to the real-world needs of inservice and preservice teachers in general and special education settings.

Author : David Wray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415277116

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Literacy by David Wray Pdf

This four-volume collection reprints key debates about exactly what it means to be literate and how literacy can best be taught. Rather than centering on the emotional reaction of mass media debates, this set focuses on research findings into processes and pedagogy. The themes covered include Literacy : its nature and its teaching, Reading - processes and teaching, Writing - processes and teaching and New Literacies - the impact of technologies.