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First Lessons for Beginning Writers: 40 Quick Mini-Lessons to Model the Craft of Writing, Teach Early Skills, and Help Young Learners Become Confident, Capable Writers - Softcover

Schaefer, Lola M.

 
9780545195706: First Lessons for Beginning Writers: 40 Quick Mini-Lessons to Model the Craft of Writing, Teach Early Skills, and Help Young Learners Become Confident, Capable Writers

Synopsis

This collection of mini-lessons is the perfect introduction to writing for our youngest learners. Writer and teacher Lola M. Schaefer shares her classroom-tested ideas for teaching children how to find and focus ideas, use drawing to brainstorm and organize, choose powerful verbs, and so much more. She also addresses spacing letters and words, spelling, punctuation, and other basic skills―all within the context of students' own writing.

  • Complete with models, think-alouds, and literature links, this rich resource will support writing workshop all year long!

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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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