Reading with Writing in Mind

Nancy Charron; Marilyn Fenton; Margaret Harris

doi:10.5771/9781475840063

Summary

Good writing begins with good reading. This book is written on the premise that students must embrace reading as a part of the full process of good writing. It may be used by classroom teachers (Grades 6-12) individually or collectively as members of a professional learning community, by pre-service teachers in a literacy course, or by other educators working to support literacy in the classroom. Interdisciplinary discussions relate to all types or genres of reading and writing.

This book offers practical lessons and ideas for teaching and motivating all learners using Universal Design for Learning principles. Formatting provides additional ideas for challenged students, including students with special needs, accelerated learners, and English Language Learners, and is aligned with Common Core State Standards for content subjects as well as for language arts. It takes ideas that were formerly reserved for the upper echelon of students in English language arts and reformulates teaching approaches to reach students across the learning spectrum and in all disciplines. All teachers need to be involved in raising the literacy bar, and this book provides activities and strategies for use in the classroom that can promote success for all learners.

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Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-4004-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-4006-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 126
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Introduction No access
1. Activity 1.1: Take Time to Notice—Looking and Learning No access
2. Activity 1.2: Take Time to Notice—An Artist’s Choices No access
3. Activity 1.3: Take Time to Notice—Comparison of Two Works of Art No access
4. Activity 1.4: Noticing the Writer’s Choices—Reading Poems No access
5. Activity 1.5: Noticing the Writer’s Choices—Reading Fiction No access
6. Activity 1.6: Noticing the Writer’s Choices—Reading Nonfiction No access
7. Activity 1.7: Determining Connotation vs. Denotation—Taking theTemperature of Words No access
8. Activity 1.8: Identifying Three Kinds of Questions No access
9. Activity 1.9: Using the I-Search Paper No access
1. Activity 2.1: Using the SOAPSTone Strategy No access
2. Activity 2.2: Role Playing No access
3. Activity 2.3: Using Primary Documents No access
4. Activity 2.4: Using Letters, Diaries, and Other Primary Sources No access
5. Activity 2.5: Applying the Concept of Essential Questions in ContentAreas No access
6. Activity 2.6: Implementing Socratic Seminars No access
7. Activity 2.7: Reviewing the Textbook No access
8. Activity 2.8: Journaling No access
9. Activity 2.9: Authentic Content Area Writing No access
1. Activity 3.1: How Meaning Is Constructed in E. B. White’s “Once More tothe Lake” No access
2. Activity 3.2: Form Supports Meaning No access
3. Activity 3.3: Conversion of a Narrative to an Essay No access
4. Activity 3.4: Finding Significance in Literature No access
5. Activity 3.5: Brainstorming in Response to Essential Questions No access
1. Activity 4.1: Checklist for Close Reading No access
2. Activity 4.2: The Face-Off No access
3. Activity 4.3: The Scaffolded Oral Presentation No access
4. Activity 4.4: Panel Discussion No access
5. Activity 4.5: Staging the Trial No access
6. Activity 4.6: Defending Preference No access
1. Activity 5.1: Less Is More No access
2. Activity 5.2: “Found” Poetry No access
3. Activity 5.3: From Prose to Poetry No access
4. Activity 5.4: Playing with Meter No access
5. Activity 5.5: Learning from e.e. cummings No access
6. Activity 5.6: Poems Using Metaphor No access
7. Activity 5.7: Letter Poem No access
8. Activity 5.8: History and Poetry No access
9. Activity 5.9: Songs as Poetry No access
10. Activity 5:10: Inference No access
6 Providing Literacy Access to AllStudents No access Pages 105 - 108
7 Reading and Reflecting on One’s OwnWriting No access Pages 109 - 116
8 Closing the Literacy Loop No access Pages 117 - 118
References No access Pages 119 - 124
About the Authors No access Pages 125 - 126