Text Structures and Fables:Teaching Students to Write About What They Read, Grades 3-12 (Corwin Literacy)

by: Gretchen Beabei (Author),Jayne Hover(Author)

Publisher: Corwin

Edition: 1st

Publication Date: 2022/11/11

Language: English

Print Length: 200 pages

ISBN-10: 1071894242

ISBN-13: 9781071894248

Book Description

State tests are assessing reading and writing together―Are you ready?The heat is on―state tests now assess reading and writing together. And that’s a good thing, but we’ve got some catching up to do in developing students’ facility with written response. With Text Structures and Fables, Gretchen Beabei and Jayne Hover share lessons and short texts to use right away. They haess the inviting format of fables to teach many ways to respond to texts in any genre. Students will lea easy structures for:Answering comprehension questionsConnecting theme or moral to self or worldAnswering questions about author’s craftShowcasing thinking in non-traditional formats such as graphicsAnd much more!

About the Author

State tests are assessing reading and writing together―Are you ready?The heat is on―state tests now assess reading and writing together. And that’s a good thing, but we’ve got some catching up to do in developing students’ facility with written response. With Text Structures and Fables, Gretchen Beabei and Jayne Hover share lessons and short texts to use right away. They haess the inviting format of fables to teach many ways to respond to texts in any genre. Students will lea easy structures for:Answering comprehension questionsConnecting theme or moral to self or worldAnswering questions about author’s craftShowcasing thinking in non-traditional formats such as graphicsAnd much more!