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Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi
Year: 2007
Media: 192 pp/paper
ISBN: 978-157110-706-0
Grade Range: K-8
Item No.: WMW-0706
Price: $20.00
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Table of Contents | About the Author(s) | Reviews
This title is also available in e-book format Since its publication in 1998 Craft Lessons has become a mainstay of writing teachers, both new and experienced. Readers value the pithy, practical lessons—each printed on one page—and appreciate the instructional language geared to three grade-level groupings: K–2, 3–4, and 5–8. In the decade since Craft Lessons' publication the world has changed in many ways, yet one thing has remained constant: teachers continue to feel starved for time. With new curriculum mandates, daily specials, “pull-outs,” and precious time devoted to test preparation, the situation has never been worse, and the need for a succinct resource like Craft Lessons has never been greater. The features that made Craft Lessons so valuable have been augmented. This edition includes: - Seventeen brand new craft lessons; many based on veteran teachers' observations about typical student writing.
- Revisions to other craft lessons: model texts that have gone out of print have been replaced with current titles, and the resource materials sections have been expanded.
- New thinking about teaching elements of craft and the reading-writing connection.
- Two new indexes: a handy subject index to make it easier to find specific craft lessons, and an index that shows how these craft lessons can be integrated into Ralph and JoAnn's curriculum resource on the “qualities of writing”—Ideas, Design, Language, and Presentation.
The 95 lessons in this book provide a wealth of information for teaching leads, character, endings, stronger verbs, and much more. This new edition reestablishes Craft Lessons as the crucial “desert island book” for harried writing teachers everywhere.
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About the Author(s)
Ralph Fletcher is a friend of writing teachers everywhere. Born in Plymouth, Mass., he received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and his master's degree from Columbia University.
> More JoAnn Portalupi likes to introduce herself as a mother, teacher, writer, and artist. Each of these roles informs the work she does in the field of teaching writing.
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Reviews
Birmingham News - September 27, 1998
"Craft Lessons, with its age-specific lessons, is a practical text for the over-scheduled writing teacher (or interested parent) who wants to find ways to challenge young writers." Birmingham News, September 27, 1998 Education Book Reviews - April 2008
"This book is a valuable resource for teachers' libraries. The straightforwardness of the themes demonstrates the wisdom of experience, self criticism and methodological knowledge." Midwest Book Review - April 2008
"Craft Lessons continues to be an impressive collection of strongly recommended and thoroughly user-friendly curriculum resource material." Midwest Book Review, April 2008 Teacher Leaders Network - November 2008
"When the second edition came out, my first thought was, 'How could that book get any better?'...It is a polishing of the stone, and the result is a vibrant, beautifully simple resource." Voices from the Middle - September 2000
"This is not a book of minilessons, which might deny us the opportunity to take advantage of the teachable moments in our classrooms. Rather, this is a compendium of craft lessons that enables us to see how writers might develop..." September 2000
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