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Leads & Endings: Lessons, Strategies, Models, and Literature Connections That Help You Teach and Revisit These Important Craft Elements All Year Long (Teaching the Craft of Writing) - Softcover

Schaefer, Lola M.; Hurni-Dove, Kathleen

 
9780439444019: Leads & Endings: Lessons, Strategies, Models, and Literature Connections That Help You Teach and Revisit These Important Craft Elements All Year Long (Teaching the Craft of Writing)

Synopsis

This concise and thoughtful guide offers lessons and strategies for creating powerful leads and memorable endings. Drawing on quality children&#8217s literature, Kathleen Hurni-Dove shows how to use exemplars to inspire students and show them the variety of possibilities for leads and endings, which helps students move beyond Hi my name is ________ and The End. An essential resource for any writing teacher.

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About the Author

Lola M. Schaefer is the author of "Pick, Pull, Snap! Where Once a Flower Bloomed, " an NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts; "What's Up, What's Down?; This Is the Sunflower; " and "This Is the Rain, " which "Kirkus Reviews" called "as essential to library collections as rain is to summer sunflowers." She lives with her husband, Ted, on four acres in rural Indiana, quite far from any of the volcanic islands featured in this book.

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