Foreword |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction to the Second Edition |
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Chapter 1 Reinventing the Writer with Mentor Texts |
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How Mentor Texts Fit into the Curriculum |
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Chapter 2 Digging for Treasure: Discovering Personal Stories by Connecting with Literature |
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Welcoming Responses to Read-Alouds |
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Filling Our Treasure Chests |
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Drawing and Talking to Find Topics |
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Finding Topics from a Memory Chain |
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Finding Topics and Using Senses to Create First Memories |
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Every Picture Tells a Story |
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Developing a "What If" Story |
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Chapter 3 What Are You Really Writing About? Discovering the Inside Story |
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Exploring Writing Territories |
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Students Discover Their Territories |
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Moving from a Territory to a Specific Topic |
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Heart Mapping to Find Writing Topics |
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The Point Versus the Topic |
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Using Classroom Conversations to Discover the Inside Story |
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Using an Inverted Triangle to Find a Specific Writing Topic |
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Creating a Neighborhood Map |
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Finding the Point of Your Story |
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Chapter 4 When Writers Use a Magnifying Lens |
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Slowing Down Time in Writing |
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Descriptions: Digging Deeper |
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Using Anecdotes to Reveal Details |
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Moving from Here to There |
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Adding Details Through Questioning |
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Using Illustrations to Add Details |
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Building Content Through Showing, Not Telling |
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Building Content with Dialogue |
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Examining Details for a Good Fit |
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Chapter 5 Growing a Narrative from Beginning to End |
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Understanding and Controlling Narrative Time |
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Introducing Characters Through Settings |
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Weather Leads: A Good Place to Start |
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Transitioning to the Middle |
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The Importance of a Road Map |
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Creating a Physical Description of a Character Using Roald Dahl |
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Adding a Satisfying Ending |
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Building an Ending Using the Final Illustration(s) |
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Chapter 6 Using Scaffolds to Organize Texts |
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Organizational Scaffolds in Children's Literature |
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Global Structures Versus Substructures |
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Structures That Complete a Circle |
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Alphabet, Numbers, Colors, and More! |
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Inside a Character's Head: Letters and Journals |
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Using a Seesaw Structure to Organize Writing |
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Using a Repeated Refrain as a Scaffold to Create Paragraphs |
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Writing in the Persona of Another |
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Using an Adjective Scaffold |
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Using Similes to Organize Text |
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Chapter 7 Poetry: Everybody Can Be a Writer |
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Using Scaffolds for Writing Poetry |
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Creating Your Own Scaffolds |
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Exploring Color Through the Senses |
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A Place for Poetry in Every Classroom |
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Using the Endless Step Pantoum for Found Poetry |
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Creating Haiku with Personification |
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Creating a List Poem Focusing on Senses |
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Creating a Question Poem with the Senses |
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Chapter 8 Choice, Voice, and All That Jazz |
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Making Use of Special Vocabularies |
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One-of-a-Kind Word Choice |
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Applying Word Choice Strategies |
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Attending to Our Nouns and Verbs |
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Identifying the Person in the Writing: Voice |
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Sentence Fluency: The Ebb and Flow of Language |
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Avoiding Cliches: Creating Unique Figurative Language |
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Discovering Our Writing Voices |
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Adding Hyphens to Stylize Your Writing |
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Developing an Understanding of Metaphor |
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Using Word Pairs to Create Rhythm |
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Just the Right Rhythm: Using the Power of Three |
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Using Effective Repetition to Emphasize How a Character Is Feeling |
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Chapter 9 Walk Around in the Author's Syntax |
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Analyzing and Modeling Syntax from Mentor Texts |
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Developing a Sense of Sentence |
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Word Splash: Building Descriptive Sentences |
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Improving Sentences with Participial Phrases |
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Studying One Author's Use of Conventions |
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Colons and Epithets: Explorations of Style |
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Hey! Study Those Interjections |
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Embedding Grammar Study in Writing Work |
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Using the Syntax of an Author |
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Using a Variety of End Punctuation |
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273 | (2) |
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Exploring Variations in Print |
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Writing Sentences with Compound Predicates |
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Using Parentheses in Our Writing |
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280 | (3) |
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Chapter 10 A Treasure Chest of Books |
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This chapter demonstrates how to read like a writer and study a mentor text to help students grow as writers. It contains a bibliography of mentor texts organized according to the writing traits addressed in each chapter |
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Afterword |
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References |
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Index |
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