Great Texts to Explore
betterworldbooks.com
This is a great text for the teachers of our youngest writers. It truly captures the importance of language in writing. If we think about the four vocabularies: receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, reading vocabulary, and writing vocabulary, the receptive and expressive are building blocks of the latter two. This text includes possible lessons for PreK and K teachers. This would be a great text to explore in our youngest grades before launching into Calkins Units of Study.
book123.net
This is a fabulous text that truly gets to the heart of the writing workshop and the development of young writers. The first chapter explores the debate of do children need to know how to spell in order to write. It offers a wealth of mini-lessons for our youngest writers. It also gives us a clear map of how writers develop. This text is a great read for teachers, and a wonderful resource to refer to again and again.
bookbyte.com stenhouse.com
These two books offer a wealth of information of different craft lessons as well as provides a "treasure chest" of mentor texts to use. Each chapter provides an opportunity for the teacher to "try on" what she has been reading about.
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