For Multiple Grades Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills is your go-to guide for writing-craft instruction through exemplary and accessible literature models. Writing-craft Target Skills--those specific techniques that all good writers use to effectively craft clear and compelling fiction and non-fiction--are best taught through explicit modeling. Locating the appropriate mentor texts for every skill, however, can be a daunting and time-consuming task. This innovative resource puts more than 450 valuable literature models at your fingertips and matches them to thirty-three fundamental writing-craft Target Skills. To add variety and versatility to your K-8 writing classroom, Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills includes a wide assortment of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry selections, ranging from picture books to intermediate texts. This revised and updated second edition also includes more than seventy Spanish literature models that are ideal for ESL/ELL writing-craft instruction. Save yourself time and energy by referencing four literature-model matrices, which alphabetically list fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and Spanish-text models. Each genre-specific matrix identifies multiple writing-craft skills so you can easily reference how to use many of the models to teach a variety of writing techniques. Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills: Helps you fully utilize the strong connection between reading and writing; Increases the power of modeling in your writing-workshop lessons; Pre-selects and organizes a set of appropriate literature models to help you teach writing craft effectively; and Features Spanish literature models for teaching writing-craft skills to ESL/ELL students.

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Susan Koehler is a National Board Certified Teacher, reading coach, and writing consultant. She has a master's degree in reading education and is certified in K-12 reading. Susan is currently a teacher at Holy Comforter Episcopal School in Tallahassee, FL. Susan has more than 20 years of experience teaching a variety of grade levels and also trains teachers with the CraftPlus Writing Program (available through Maupin House). She is the 2005 recipient of the Mary Brogan Award for Excellence in Literacy Education. Susan is the author of Crafting Expository Papers, Purposeful Writing Assessment, and The Complete K-5 Writing Workshop; the co-author of Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills (Second Edition); and the project editor for the CraftPlus Daily Writing Lessons.

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