Using Literature to Enhance Writing Instruction: A Guide for K-5 Teachers
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With the strong emphasis on reading proficiency, many teachers are struggling to include writing instruction in their K–5 literacy programs. This book shows teachers how to make the most of the reading-writing connection by using children’s literature to improve their students’ writing. Author Rebecca Olness presents six traits that characterize effective writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. You’ll learn how to use these six traits—based on the Six-Trait Analytical Writing Model originally used to assess writing—to teach writing. The chapters describe the six traits and present ideas and strategies for helping students -find good ideas and details, -organize ideas, -express personality through voice, -choose the right words, -apprehend fluency and rhythm, and -edit for conventions. The chapters also provide assessments, sample lesson plans, and annotated bibliographies of children’s literature to guide your instruction. As you teach your students to recognize the six traits in the children’s literature they read, you’ll help them infuse the traits into their own writing. Use this book to immerse your students in reading and writing and, ultimately, help them become better writers.
Using Literature to Enhance Writing Instruction: A Guide for K-5 Teachers
Writing Children’s Books for Dummies
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The fun and easy way to write a childrens book that will impress any publishing house
The childrens book market can be difficult to crack for first-time authors. This friendly guide shows would-be J. K. Rowlings how to maximize their chances of success, offering practical, proven tips on developing book ideas, attending publishing conferences, writing a winning proposal, finding an agent, submitting to the right publisher, working with an editor, and more. It describes the differences between various types of childrens books and explains exactly what it takes to make the grade with each, including savvy advice on honing voice, descriptions, characters, plot, and pacing.
Writing Children’s Books for Dummies
Writing and Illustrating Children?s Books for Publication
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The world of publishing has changed dramatically in the ten years since Writing and Illustrating Children’s Books for Publication first started helping aspiring children’s book writers and illustrators. Presented in a lively, usable format, the book is still brimming with its popular features, and has been updated to include pertinent new information reflecting current realities and trends.
Combining supportive advice with hands-on activities, Writing and Illustrating Children’s Books for Publication, Revised Edition guides readers in successfully pursuing their craft with:
-Two perspectives on writing & illustrating children’s books for publication: that of a respected author/illustrator, and that of a successful editor/publisher -Real-life case histories of how noted authors and illustrators overcame obstacles and got published -Carefully-developed writing exercises, checklists, and targeted reading lists to get and keep writers writing and illustrators illustrating -In addition to the following all-new material: -Updated case histories and reading lists -Brand-new writing and illustrating exercises -Online tools and resources for research -An expanded section on illustration -Greater focus on writing fiction for middle grades and young adults -Information on communicating with and making submissions to publishers -Information and advice about changes in the marketplace since the first edition, including mergers in the publishing industry; name-brand literary properties (e.g., Harry Potter); and celebrity publishing
Whether used as an eight-week, self-taught course or as a treasury to focus on aspects of craft when and as needed, Writing and Illustrating Children’s Books for Publication, Revised Edition contains the tools necessary to create a publishable children’s book in a short amount of time.
Writing and Illustrating Children?s Books for Publication
