CORWIN PRESS COR9781071920862 Corwin Text Structures From Picture Books, Grades 2-8

Teach students the architecture beneath a successful story-and boost their reading comprehension and writing skills for a lifetime. Based on master writing teacher Gretchen Bernabei"s instructional model, the lessons offer a lively, high-impact mix of reading aloud, discussion, modeling, student writing, and peer share. Plus, readers have access to a complete companion website full of text structure reproducibles, reading response prompts, additional lessons and extensions, students samples, and links to demo videos. This book helps students generate their own writing, using a text structure harvested from the work of professional authors. The illustrative stories teaches students how to retell a story, using the text structure from the story. Generate reading responses, using structures that support clarity. Analyze a story to construct thematic statements, capturing the authors message and bigger themes. Author: Stephen Briseño, Kayla Briseño, Gretchen Bernabei