Craft Lessons 2nd Edition,   ISBN:9781571107060

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I finally bought this book after hearing about it for years. Wish I had gotten it earlier. Fantastic mini lessons and useful mentor texts. Every 1st - 8th Language Arts teacher should have one on hand because you'll find yourself coming back to it again and again.

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It is so hard finding a book on writer's craft ideas. This covers all elementary grade levels up to 8th grade, with ideas that can be adapted for every grade. I can't wait to use the lessons contained as a spring board to my writer's workshop!

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Teaching children how to write is one of the fundamental tasks of all community schools be they public, private, or parochial. Now in an expanded and updated second edition, "Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K-8" is the collaborative work of professional writer Ralph Fletcher and classroom teacher Joann Portalupi, who have worked with teachers and children from New York City to Hilo, Hawaii. A curriculum supplement and mainstay of writing teachers, this newly augmented edition features seventeen additional craft lessons (many based on veteran teachers' observations about typical student writing), revisions to previous published craft lessons (model texts that have gone out of print and replaced with current titles, as well as expanded resource materials sections); new thinking about teaching elements of craft and the reading-writing connection; and two new indexes. Comprising a total of ninety-five lessons specific to developing student writing skills, "Craft Lessons" continues to be an impressive collection of strongly recommended and thoroughly 'user friendly' curriculum resource material.

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Unlike many other writing books that abound with theories and fluff, this book cuts straight to the core and gives you minilessons that you can implement in your classroom TODAY! It focuses on adding craft to writing, so don't expect it to be a full writing curriculum or talk about mechanics, but the lessons it provides are top notch. It contains different sections for grades 1 and 2 3 and 4 5 and 6, revisiting similar skills on different levels. A must for any writing teacher!

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I have enjoyed reading this book. What great ideas from other teachers and for the different age groups. I'm going to use these ideas for myself as I strive to write.