Powerful Writing Structures : Brain Pocket Strategies for Supporting a Year-Long Writing Program.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: A Balanced Writing Program -- Writing Structures and Brain Pockets -- Introducing Brain Pocket Writing -- Elements of a Balanced Writing Program -- Formative Writing Assessment and Responsive Teaching -- Writing Joy -- Writing Goals -- Writing Routine -- Mini Lessons -- Word Work -- Independent Writing -- Anchor Books and Mentor Texts -- Writing Conferences -- Implementing Weekly Practice Writes -- Introductory Lesson -- The Importance of Planning -- Draft Day -- Revising and Editing -- 2: Memory Pocket Writing: Personal Narrative -- Walking Stories -- Walking Story Topics and Anchor Books -- Mini Lessons for Walking Stories -- Word Choice: Triple-Scoop Words -- Interesting Details -- Organization Drawers -- Sensory Details -- Similes -- Personification -- Event Stories -- Introductory Lessons -- Deconstructing Event Stories -- Planning Event Stories -- Mini Lessons for Event Stories -- Transition Words -- Stretching the Moment -- Effective Event Story Endings -- 3: Fact Pocket Writing: Nonfiction -- Introducing Nonfiction Writing -- Text Structures -- Text Features -- Descriptive Writing -- Introductory Lesson -- Mini Lessons for Description -- Dash Facts Research -- Putting the Facts Together -- Hook Your Reader with a Great Beginning -- Find Your Voice -- Too Much Icing -- Effective Endings for Description -- Descriptive Writing in the Content Areas -- Instructional Writing -- Introductory Lesson: What? What? How? -- Mini Lessons for Instruction -- The SAD Formula -- Text Features for Instruction -- How-To Tips -- Expert Writing -- Instructional Writing in the Content Areas -- How to Be an Animal -- How to Be People -- Indigenous Ways of Knowing -- Persuasive Writing -- Introductory Lesson: What? Why? Why? Why? What Was That Again? -- Mini Lessons for Persuasion.

The Language of Persuasion -- Planning -- Effective Introductions: The Top of the Diamond -- Focusing on the Why -- Effective Endings: The Bottom of the Diamond -- Persuasion in the Content Areas -- Catalogues -- Bubblegum Letters -- Famous People Persuasion -- Everyday Inventions -- Comparison Writing -- Introductory Lesson -- Mini Lessons for Comparison -- The Language of Comparison -- Independent Practice -- Comparison in the Content Areas -- Comparing Animals in Science -- Comparing Early Humans/Civilizations in Social Studies -- Explanatory Writing -- Introductory Lesson -- Mini Lessons for Explanation Writing -- Modeling Explanatory Writing -- Flow Charts and Diagrams -- Explanation Writing in the Content Areas -- Biography Writing -- Introductory Lesson: Who? What? Where? When? How? Wow! -- Mini Lessons for Biography Writing -- Time Lines -- Past Mini Lessons -- Biography of a Classmate -- Biography in the Content Areas -- Change Agents -- Author Biographies -- 4: Imagination Pocket Writing: Story Writing -- Introductory Lesson -- Mini Lessons for Story Writing -- What's the Problem? -- Character Development -- Planning the Plot -- The Story-Writing Process -- Final Thoughts -- Acknowledgments -- Professional Resources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- T -- V -- W.

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