Teaching Real-Life Writing to Young Learners, Grades K-2: Easy Teacher-Tested Lessons That Help Children Learn to Write Lists, Letters, Invitations, H (Best Practices in Action) Book

Author Paula Jensvold shares her classroom-tested ways for teaching children how to write for different purposes. Through clear, step-by-step mini-lessons and sample student-teacher dialogues, she demonstrates how to introduce children to must-know forms of real-life writing, including lists, signs and labels, how-to procedures, messages, ads, cards, e-mails, letters, and thank-you notes, and then provides practice activities for each writing form. Includes ideas for differentiated learning, reproducible practice pages, and suggested book lists to connect with each type of writing.1. Teacher-tested lessons based on current research2. Explicit instruction in must-know forms of real life writing3. Writing forms include lists, signs and labels, how-to procedures, phone messages, ads, e-mails, cards, letters, and thank-you notes4. Student-teacher dialogues serve as teaching models5. Ideas for differentiated learning 6. Suggested book lists correlate with different writing forms7. Practice pages let children apply what they learnRead More