Mastery in informational and expository writing is central to the success of intermediate and middle-school students. In Crafting Expository Papers, Susan Koehler explicitly explains five instructional steps that develop expository skills, from developing details and creating organization through writing effective expository paragraphs and papers, then revising and editing for publication. She includes lessons with specific Target Skills® to support your students’ progress, and suggests timelines that will help you plan your curriculum. Students proficient in the genre of expository writing are empowered to craft well-organized written responses on subject-area assessments and standardized tests. They are able to write well-supported reports and term papers and will be prepared to handle the majority of writing that the majority of people will do in their lives. But teaching your students how to compose expository papers also has a larger impact on their education―becoming a proficient writer is often the first step in becoming a proficient reader. Students who learn the nuances of crafting expository writing will recognize and comprehend that craft while reading and responding to informational texts. Throughout, Koehler’s comprehensive approach and clear instructions make this book a unique and valuable resource for any teacher of developing writers.

Crafting Expository Papers (Maupin House)

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Progress monitoring and Response to Intervention (RtI) are critical pieces of contemporary classroom practice. Purposeful Writing Assessment provides both of these elements in a quick, easy-to-use format. At the beginning of the year, administer a Comprehensive Writing Assessment to determine areas of strength and opportunities for growth in your students' knowledge about the writing process, writing craft, grammar, usage, and mechanics. Then, design your instruction to meet the specific needs of your students! Throughout the year, use targeted multiple-choice mini-assessments to monitor the progress of your students as you teach and practice genre-specific writing skills. After each mini-assessment, specific RtI lesson ideas are suggested. Select from these ideas to provide on-the-spot reteaching and intervention for struggling students. Purposeful Writing Assessment helps you design your instruction to meet your students' needs, and puts progress monitoring and intervention at your fingertips.

Purposeful Writing Assessment (Maupin House)

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For Multiple Grades Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills is your go-to guide for writing-craft instruction through exemplary and accessible literature models. Writing-craft Target Skills―those specific techniques that all good writers use to effectively craft clear and compelling fiction and non-fiction―are best taught through explicit modeling. Locating the appropriate mentor texts for every skill, however, can be a daunting and time-consuming task. This innovative resource puts more than 450 valuable literature models at your fingertips and matches them to thirty-three fundamental writing-craft Target Skills. To add variety and versatility to your K-8 writing classroom, Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills includes a wide assortment of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry selections, ranging from picture books to intermediate texts. This revised and updated second edition also includes more than seventy Spanish literature models that are ideal for ESL/ELL writing-craft instruction. Save yourself time and energy by referencing four literature-model matrices, which alphabetically list fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and Spanish-text models. Each genre-specific matrix identifies multiple writing-craft skills so you can easily reference how to use many of the models to teach a variety of writing techniques. Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills: Helps you fully utilize the strong connection between reading and writing; Increases the power of modeling in your writing-workshop lessons; Pre-selects and organizes a set of appropriate literature models to help you teach writing craft effectively; and Features Spanish literature models for teaching writing-craft skills to ESL/ELL students.

Models for Teaching Writing-Craft Target Skills, 2nd Edition

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