Susan Koehler

Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills, 2nd Edition Susan Koehler Revised and Updated Second edition

For Multiple Grades

Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills is your go-to guide for writing-craft instruction through exemplary and accessible literature models.

Writing-craft Target Skills--those specific techniques that all good writers use to effectively craft clear and compelling fiction and non-fiction--are best taught through explicit modeling. Locating the appropriate mentor texts for every skill, however, can be a daunting and time-consuming task. This innovative resource puts more than 450 valuable literature models at your fingertips and matches them to thirty-three fundamental writing-craft Target Skills. To add variety and versatility to your K-8 writing classroom, Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills includes a wide assortment of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry selections, ranging from picture books to intermediate texts.

This revised and updated second edition also includes more than seventy Spanish literature models that are ideal for ESL/ELL writing-craft instruction.

Save yourself time and energy by referencing four literature-model matrices, which alphabetically list fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and Spanish-text models. Each genre-specific matrix identifies multiple writing-craft skills so you can easily reference how to use many of the models to teach a variety of writing techniques.

Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills:
-Helps you fully utilize the strong connection between reading and writing
-Increases the power of modeling in your writing-workshop lessons
-Pre-selects and organizes a set of appropriate literature models to help you teach writing craft effectively
-Features Spanish literature models for teaching writing-craft skills to ESL/ELL students