Description
Book SynopsisState tests are assessing reading and writing togetherAre you ready?
I wish students would interact with a text on their ownI wish it wasn't like pulling teeth to get them to elaborate their thinking. Wish no more, because bestselling author Gretchen Bernabei shows you how to guide students to be nimble at both short answer and extended responses. Her secret? Teach students text structures, and they can pour their swirling ideas about the text into cogent writing.
Using the accessible format of fables, Bernabei and Hover share lessons and an appendix full of fables so you can teach students five concrete ways to respond to text in any genre:
- Generate basic responses, using structures that support clarity
- Craft fiction inspired by the text to unveil literary knowledge and imaginative response
- Write essays about a theme or moral that display empathic and evidence-based interpretation
Trade Review
"These lessons help! When students have a choice, it allows them to answer a question based on the information that they know, and not based on what they think a teacher wants to hear." -- Ida Ferrazzano
"What is beautiful about using these text structures to respond to text is that students go back into the text to support their thinking. This is what we want. We sat them to support their responses with evidence from the text. This makes it easy." -- Malene Golding * Education Consultant and Adjunct Professor at University of Houston - Clear Lake *
"The results of using text structures? Miraculous!" -- Sheryl Stewart * Grade 9 Teacher, A&M Consolidated High School *
"One of the things I appreciate most is that these lessons will prepare students for the tests without the typical test-prep materials." -- Dawn Lyssy * Director of Elementary Instruction, Pearland ISD *
Table of Contents
PART I. BUILDING STRONG READERS AND WRITERS LESSON 1. RESPONDING TO READING LESSON 2. WRITING FICTION FOR READERS LESSON 3. WRITING ESSAYS ABOUT THE MORAL FABLE THEMES 1–10 PART II. ASSESSING STRONG READERS AND WRITERS LESSON 4. WRITING ANSWERS TO COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS LESSON 5. WRITING ANSWERS ABOUT THE AUTHOR’S CRAFT FABLE THEMES 11–20 PART III. USING NONTRADITIONAL FORMATS LESSON 6. THE QA12345 DIALOGUE LESSON 7. INFOSHOT (CUBING): SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW LESSON 8. BA-DA-BING LESSON 9. THREE-THINGS RESPONSE LESSON 10. ONE-LINERS FABLE THEMES 21–30
