Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Intermediate Writing Grades 3-8

• Main Author: Rog, Lori Jamison
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Toronto Pembroke Publishers, Limited 2018
• Edition: 1

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The "Writingest" Generation -- The Minilesson -- How to Use This Book -- Chapter 1: Writing Workshop: A Predictable Structure Where the Unpredictable Can Happen -- How Can We Find the Time? -- Teaching Time, Writing Time, Sharing Time -- Supporting Independence -- Topic Self-Selection -- Managing Materials -- The Teacher's Role -- The Walkabout Conference -- The TAG Conference -- The Editing (Polish to Publish) Conference -- Writing Workshop and the Struggling Writer -- Technology Talk -- Chapter 2: Where Do We Start? -- Planning Units of Study -- Teaching by Text Form -- The Journey to Publication -- Planning a Genre-Based Unit of Study -- Sample Questions for Creating a Framework for a Text Form -- Rubrics -- A Sample Unit Plan for Personal Narrative -- Sample Unit of Study Objectives for Personal Narrative Writing -- Getting Started for the First Six Weeks -- Sample Assessment Rubric for Personal Narrative -- Chapter 3: Writing to Learn -- Effective Instructional Strategies -- Writing About Nonfiction Reading -- Struggling Writers and Writing About Reading -- Minilessons in This Chapter: -- The Gist and the 3 E's -- Write a Bad Response -- What's the Difference? -- Sum It Up! -- Focused Freewriting -- Chunk and Chew, Stop and Jot -- WITIK: What I Think I Know -- Chapter 4: Writing to Inform -- An Informational Writing Unit of Study -- Teaching an Informational Writing Unit -- Minilessons in This Chapter: -- Skinny Down the Topic -- Telegram Notes -- Terrific Topic Sentences -- Bookend Paragraphs -- Gems to Make Writing Sparkle -- The First Four Words -- Rubric for Assessment and Evaluation -- Chapter 5: Writing to Persuade -- Steps in Teaching a Persuasive Writing Unit -- Minilessons in This Chapter: -- Agree or Disagree? -- What, Why, and How Do You Know? -- Face the Facts
• Other People Might Say... -- AIM for a Great Opening -- End with an I, You, or We -- Loaded Words -- Rubric for Assessment and Evaluation -- Chapter 6: Content Minilessons: Topics and Details -- Minilessons in This Chapter: -- Topic Bingo -- Trifold Planner -- Listing or Layering -- Don't Tell Me, Show Me! -- Add an Anecdote -- Slo-Mo Writing -- Dabble in Dialogue -- "Stars and Wishes" Peer Conferences -- Chapter 7: The Writer's Craft: Writing with Rhythm and Flair -- Minilessons in This Chapter: -- TAP into Voice -- Vivid Verbs -- The Magic of Three -- Say it with a Simile -- What Does Red Sound Like? -- Pop in a Popper -- The VSS -- Flip the Sentence -- Chapter 8: Conventions: The Good Manners of Writing -- Grammar Rules We Thought We Knew (But Didn't) -- Is it Time to Stop Teaching Spelling? -- Word Study -- Minilessons in This Chapter: -- Be Your Own Editor -- Sentence Stretching -- Three Sentence Stories -- The Royal Order of Adjectives -- Possessive or Plural Word Sort -- Explode a Word -- The Five Ps of Paragraphing -- Resources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W