For K-5 Teachers! 
This innovative resource presents three increasingly complex levels of mini-lessons for each of 20 carefully selected non-fiction titles. The reading/writing connection allows for demonstration that enhances your K-5 curriculum. The books serve as models for illustrating and mastering the six basic expository skills needed for lifelong communication and for state assessments: Description, Explanation, Leads and Endings, Cause and Effect, Comparing and Contrasting and Fact and Opinion. All mini-lessons provide practice in the levels of knowledge required for ongoing, as well as, deadline writing. 
Literature Models To Teach Expository Writing * Takes you step-by-step through a writing workshop session * Provides a separate kindergarten, primary, and intermediate lesson for each modeled book * Includes charts and graphs * Adapts to the specific target-skill needs of your class * Allows you to teach writing across the curriculum * Lessons provide a framework for use with other non-fiction text

Literature Models to Teach Expository Writing

Education & Teaching

Susan Anderson-McElveen

Connie Campbell Dierking

Schools & Teaching

Maupin House Publishing

The writing/reading connection means more than having your students write under the influence of literature that they have read! Noted author and educator Connie Campbell Dierking shows you how to develop a literacy-connected classroom, including using oral storytelling to scaffold primary reading and writing. She supplies more than 50 mini-lessons organized by their classroom function to help you explicitly teach foundational literacy skills during writer s workshop or whole-class and small-group reading instruction. Dierking encourages you to make the most of the writing/reading connection by thinking about some basic questions when you re crafting your literacy instruction: * How can I connect the conversations in reading and writing workshop? * What can I learn about the readers in my classroom through their writing? * What can my students learn about reading through writing? * How can I teach young writers to support their readers? * How can I teach readers how to use a writer s supports intentionally? Transform your K-2 literacy instruction. Teach writing and reading together.

Teaching Early Writing and Reading Together: Mini-Lessons that Link K-2 Literacy Instruction

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Books by Connie Campbell Dierking

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Literature Models to Teach Expository Writing

Teaching Early Writing and Reading Together: Mini-Lessons that Link K-2 Literacy Instruction