A popular workshop presenter and winner of NCTE's James Moffett Award in 2010, Gretchen Bernabei has been teaching kids to write in middle school and high school classrooms for more than thirty years. In addition to four other professional books and numerous articles for NCTE journals, she is the author of National Geographic School Publications' The Good Writer's Kit, as well as Lightning in a Bottle, a CD of visual writing prompts. Judi Reimer taught fourth grade in San Antonio, Texas, for seventeen years and continues to advise students and school districts. She has worked as a freelance writer, contributing columns and features for Parents, Ladies' Home Journal, and other national magazines. Judi has also written articles for Studies Weekly classroom publications and has been a freelance writer for American Legacy Publishing.
Request Academic Copy
Please copy the ISBN for submitting review copy form
Description
Dedication Introduction Lessons: Student Planning Pages with Fairy Tale Texts Structure for Writing About Life Themes 1. Beauty and the Beast 2. The Bremen Town Musicians 3. Cinderella 4. Diamonds and Toads 5. The Elves and the Shoemaker Structures for Explaining a Concept 6. The Emperor's New Clothes 7. The Fisherman and His Wife 8. The Frog Prince 9. The Gingerbread Boy 10. The Golden Goose Structures for Character Analysis 11. Hansel and Gretel 12. Henny Penny 13. Jack and the Beanstalk 14. The Little Red Hen 15. Little Red Riding Hood Structures for Analyzing a Theme in Literature 16. The Nightingale 17. One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes 18. The Princess and the pea 19. Puss in Boots 20. Rapunzel Structures for Commentary About Plot 21. Rumpelstiltskin 22. The Sleeping Beauty 23. Snow White 24. Snow White and Rose Red 25. The Three Bears Structures for Making an Argument 26. The Three Billy Goats Gruff 27. The Three Little Pigs 28. The Three Sillies 29. Thumbelina 30. The Tinderbox Structures for Content-Area Writing 31. Tom Thumb 32. The Twelve Dancing Princesses 33. The Ugly Duckling 34. The Wild Swans 35. The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids Appendix i. Complete Text Structures Collections ii. 25 More Things to do With These Lessons iii. Blank Student Planning Page for Black Line Master iv. Text Chunkyard v. Get Student Writers Talking: Conversation Strategies vi. Steps for the Truism Braid Essay vii. Reader Rubric with Words and Faces viii. Intensity Scale ix. What's Better... This? Or That? x. Ms. Kern's Final Exam Project and Timetable xi. Craft Lessons for Revision a. Truisms b. Adding Details c. Sparkling Sentences d. 11-Minute Essays e. Ba-da-bing! f. Writer's Toolbox with Dead Giveaways g. Writing Book Reports