1st Edition
59 Reasons to Write Mini-Lessons, Prompts, and Inspiration for Teachers
By Kate Messner
Copyright 2015
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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In order to teach writing effectively, teachers must be writers themselves. They must experience the same uncertainty of starting a new draft and then struggling to revise. As they learn to move past the fear of failure, they discover the nervous rush and exhilaration of sharing work with an audience, just as their students do. Only by engaging in the real work of writing can teachers become part... Read more
Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Getting Started; Chapter 3: Organizing; Chapter 4: Characters; Chapter 5: Point of View, Voice, and Mood; Chapter 6: Setting; Chapter 7: Plot and Pacing; Chapter 8: Flowing Between Nonfiction and Fiction: Finding the Story; Chapter 9: Poetry; Chapter 10: I'm Stuck!; Chapter 11: Revising and Critiquing; Chapter 12: Time to Reflect
Biography
Kate Messner is the award-winning author of more than a dozen current and forthcoming books for young readers. Her first novel, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z., won the 2010 E.B. White Read-Aloud Medal for Older Readers, while its follow-up, Sugar and Ice (Walker/Bloomsbury, 2010), was a Junior Library Guild selection. Kate is also the author of the popular Marty McGuire chapter book series and Silver Jaguar Society Mysteries with Scholastic. Kate lives on Lake Champlain, USA.
