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Pawel Kuczynski. Google his stuff--just not in front of your class live. While he has a ton that can be used for classes, there are others that are too mature. Just FYI.

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Need some short nonfiction pieces?  Back matter is your friend!

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Need some short nonfiction pieces?  Back matter is your friend!

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These books (featured in Text Structures from Picture Books) all have back matter that can be used for a short nonfiction read.

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Each Kindness and The Invisible Boy

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Truism Braid Lesson from Text Structures from Picture Books

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Writing instruction can sometimes seem scattershot, as teachers try to cover a galaxy of craft techniques, ideas, intentions, and genres. The possibilities are endless-and that's the problem. In Text Structures from Picture Books, elementary and middle grade teachers tap into a well-ordered universe of inspiring and illustrative stories to help students frame their thinking and focus choices.

Using the bite-size format of picture books as a starting point, the authors share 50 low-prep, quick-access lessons to help you teach students seven concrete ways to respond to text in any genre. Through these lessons, students will be able to:

Generate their own writing, using a text structure harvested from the work of professional authors

Retell a story, using the text structure from the story

Generate reading responses, using structures that support clarity

Analyze a story to construct thematic statements, capturing the author's message and bigger themes

Write about a theme or big idea demonstrating empathic and evidence-based interpretation

Answer open-ended questions by selecting a technique that reflects the text and their engagement

Experiment with author's craft in their own writing

Based on master writing teacher Gretchen Bernabei's instructional model, the lessons offer a lively, high-impact mix of reading aloud, discussion, modeling, student writing, and peer share. Plus, readers have access to a complete companion website full of text structure reproducibles, reading response prompts, additional lessons and extensions, students samples, and links to demo videos.

State tests are now assessing reading and writing together. And that's a good thing-but we've got some catching up to do. Written for students beginning in second grade, Text Structures from Picture Books will help your students swiftly and surely become text-savvy readers and writers.

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Text Structures From Picture Books [Grades 2-8]

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Teach student writers all they need to know about reading, writing, and responding to texts with these 50 low-prep, high-impact lessons.

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Alphabatized List of Picture Books We Used

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Alphabatized List of Picture Books We Used

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Spend an hour with some of education's most influential thought leaders

Join us for a free hour of professional learning to discuss a range of critical issues and gain practical tools and evidence-based strategies.

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Rethinking Picture Books for New Connections and Deeper Writing Lessons

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Picture books offer a way for us to see ourselves, connect, and be exposed to different ideas, while scaffolding for deep learning across grade, abili...

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Corwin Connect Article: Powered by Picture Books

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Corwin Connect Article: Powered by Picture Books

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Powered by Picture Books - Corwin Connect

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Picture books can be leveraged across grade levels and language abilities to cover a wide gamut of literacy skills.

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Constructed Reading Response Question Stems

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Constructed Reading Response Question Stems

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We are two English teachers (and authors) who LOVE books. Check out our list and read along with us!

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Trailofbreadcrumbs.net--- A GOLD MINE OF RESOURCES FROM GRETCHEN BERNABEI!

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Trailofbreadcrumbs.net--- A GOLD MINE OF RESOURCES FROM GRETCHEN BERNABEI!

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Gretchen Bernabei has taught middle school and high school for 34 years. After earning her B.A. at Southwest Texas State University, she has devoted her professional life to learning, developing, and sharing best practices, particularly through the National Writing Projects. A sought-after speaker, Gretchen has authored Why We Must Run with Scissors: Voice Lessons in Persuasive Writing (2001, Discover Writing Press); Reviving the Essay: How to Teach Structure Without Formula (2005, Discover Writing Press); Lightning in a Bottle (2003, Trail of Breadcrumbs); Sparklers: High Scoring Test Essays and What We Learn from Them (2007, Trail of Breadcrumbs); The Good Writer's Guide (2006, Hampton-Brown/National Geographic School Publications); Crunchtime: Lessons to Help Students Blow The Roof Off Writing Tests and Become Better Writers in the Process (2009, Heinemann); The Story of My Thinking: Expository Writing Activities for 13 Teaching Situations (Heinemann, 2012); Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning (Corwin, 2013); Grammar Keepers (Corwin, 2014), Text Structures from the Masters (Corwin, 2016), Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes (Corwin, 2018), and Text Structures from Fairy Tales (Corwin, 2019).

For her work, NCTE honored her with the James Moffett Award in 2010.

She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

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Gretchen Bernabei has taught middle school and high school for 34 years. After earning her B.A. at Southwest Texas State University, she has devoted her professional life to learning, developing, and sharing best practices, particularly through the National Writing Projects. A sought-after speaker, Gretchen has authored Why We Must Run with Scissors: Voice Lessons in...

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PD in your jammies!

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Trail of Breadcrumbs exists to help English teachers improve upon their craft. Together with Gretchen Bernabei and her team of expert teachers, you can learn all the tools and tricks you need to help your students write authentically and read responsively, building a collaborative community of writers in your classroom.