The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing

[...]teachers are looking for resources that will provide them with guidelines and strategies for teaching the many forms of writing. According to her, this text type does not have to be a boring regurgitation of facts and figures that reads like a textbook, but rather should have voice and energy a...

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Published in:Language arts 2015, Vol.92 (6), p.450
Main Author: Oglan, Victoria A
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Standards
Elementary Secondary Education
Literacy
Mentors
Schaefer, David
State Standards
Students
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Vocabulary
Writers
Writing
Writing Instruction
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Summary:[...]teachers are looking for resources that will provide them with guidelines and strategies for teaching the many forms of writing. According to her, this text type does not have to be a boring regurgitation of facts and figures that reads like a textbook, but rather should have voice and energy and read like literature by revealing big ideas.
ISSN:0360-9170
1943-2402