Crafting Creative Nonfiction: From Close Reading to Close Writing

• Published in: The Reading teacher Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 49 - 58
• Main Author: Dollins, Cynthia A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newark Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: 2-Childhood; Animals; Childrens Writing; Creative nonfiction; Creative Writing; Creativity; Editing; Elementary education; etc.; Genre studies; Genres; Grade 3; Information; Informational text; Instructional models; Instructional strategies; Literary elements; Literature-based instruction; Mentoring; Narratives; Nonfiction; Process Approach (Writing); Reading Comprehension; Reading teachers; Specific subject areas (math; Specific subject areas (math, art, etc.); Students; Style; Teaching Methods; teaching strategies; text features; text structure; Text types; Writer's workshop; Writing; Writing across the curriculum; Writing Improvement; Writing instruction; Writing process; Writing processes; Writing strategies; Written narratives

A process writing project in a third‐grade classroom explored the idea of using nonfiction mentor texts to assist students in writing their own creative informational texts about animals. By looking at author craft and structure during close reading activities with nonfiction Twin Texts, students we...