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Using Literature to Enhance Writing Instruction: A Guide for K-5 Teachers
by Rebecca L. Olness
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| Grades | K – 5 |
| Type | Book |
| Pages | 216 |
| Published | October 2004 |
| Publisher |  |
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Learn how to use literature to teach your students the six traits that characterize effective writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.
This practical text gives you a variety of ideas and strategies for developing and integrating the traits into students’ writing, bibliographies of recommended children’s literature, assessment ideas, and sample lesson plans. Plus, you’ll get ideas on how to provide time for your students to read aloud and write every day.
Olness, R. (2005). Using Literature to Enhance Writing Instruction: A Guide for K–5 Teachers. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Once Upon a Link: A PowerPoint Adventure With Fractured Fairy Tales
What really happened to the three little pigs? Students will read and write fractured fairy tales. In composing and editing these tales, students focus on the six traits of writing.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Teaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales
From "once upon a time" to "happily ever after," students learn to recognize story structure in fairy tales and create a logical sequence of events when writing original stories.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Once They’re Hooked, Reel Them In: Writing Good Endings
It’s important to “hook” readers at a story’s beginning, but it’s equally important to keep them interested. In this lesson, students learn to write effective conclusions to their own stories.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Make a Splash! Using Dramatic Experience to “Explode the Moment”
Students will have a blast as they use descriptive language to write about an “explosive” and dramatic moment in their lives.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Fishing for Readers: Identifying and Writing Effective Opening "Hooks"
Good writers "hook" their readers in the very first sentences. In this lesson, students learn how to cast an attention-grabbing hook in their writing to effectively draw in readers' attention.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
This is My Story: Encouraging Students to Use a Unique Voice
What did the wolf think of Red Riding Hood? Once Upon a Fairy Tale offers his side of the story and more, providing vivid examples of how voice enlivens narrative. After comparing versions of the story, students apply the concept of voice to Fractured Fairy Tales and other writing activities.
