Text Structures from Fairy Tales : Truisms That Help Students Write about Abstract Concepts ... and Live Happily Ever after, Grades 4-12.
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- 9781544371900
- English language-Composition and exercises-Study and teaching (Secondary)-Activity programs
- English language-Composition and exercises-Study and teaching (Elementary)-Activity programs
- Nursery rhymes-Study and teaching (Secondary)-Activity programs
- Nursery rhymes-Study and teaching (Elementary)-Activity programs
- Composition (Language arts)-Study and teaching (Secondary)-Activity programs
- Composition (Language arts)-Study and teaching (Elementary)-Activity programs
- LB1576 .B476 2019
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Structures for Writing About Life Themes -- Lesson 1. Appearances -- Text Structure: Story of My Thinking -- Fairy Tale: Beauty and the Beast -- Lesson 2. Family -- Text Structure: Parts of a Whole -- Fairy Tale: The Bremen Town Musicians -- Lesson 3. Hardships -- Text Structure: Type of Something -- Fairy Tale: Cinderella -- Lesson 4. Power of Words -- Text Structure: Short- and Long-Term Effects -- Fairy Tale: Diamonds and Toads -- Lesson 5. Gratitude -- Text Structure: What the Characters Know About ______ -- Fairy Tale: The Elves and the Shoemaker -- Part II. Structures for Explaining a Concept -- Lesson 6. Peer Pressure -- Text Structure: Case Study -- Fairy Tale: The Emperor's New Clothes -- Lesson 7. Greed -- Text Structure: Comparing Notes -- Fairy Tale: The Fisherman and His Wife -- Lesson 8. Selfishness -- Text Structure: The Onion -- Fairy Tale: The Frog Prince -- Lesson 9. Confidence -- Text Structure: Reconsidering a Belief -- Fairy Tale: The Gingerbread Boy -- Lesson 10. Laughter -- Text Structure: Life Lesson -- Fairy Tale: The Golden Goose -- Part III. Structures for Character Analysis -- Lesson 11. Listening -- Text Structure: Evolution of a Term -- Fairy Tale: Hansel and Gretel -- Lesson 12. Fear -- Text Structure: Chain Reaction -- Fairy Tale: Henny Penny -- Lesson 13. Stealing -- Text Structure: Double Take -- Fairy Tale: Jack and the Beanstalk -- Lesson 14. Generosity -- Text Structure: News/Gossip: Tell Me, Tell Me -- Fairy Tale: The Little Red Hen -- Lesson 15. Distractions -- Text Structure: Change of Plans -- Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood -- Part IV. Structures for Analyzing a Theme in Literature -- Lesson 16. Love -- Text Structure: Wrong Assumptions -- Fairy Tale: The Nightingale -- Lesson 17. Humiliation -- Text Structure: Finding Out for Sure.
Fairy Tale: One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes -- Lesson 18. Tests -- Text Structure: Definition -- Fairy Tale: The Princess and the Pea -- Lesson 19. Reputation -- Text Structure: The 11-Minute Essay -- Fairy Tale: Puss in Boots -- Lesson 20. Companionship -- Text Structure: Tevye's Debate -- Fairy Tale: Rapunzel -- Part V. Structures for Commentary About Plot -- Lesson 21. Promises -- Text Structure: Story of My Thinking -- Fairy Tale: Rumpelstiltskin -- Lesson 22. Gifts -- Text Structure: Hindsight Reflections -- Fairy Tale: The Sleeping Beauty -- Lesson 23. Mistakes -- Text Structure: Surprise Ending -- Fairy Tale: Snow White -- Lesson 24. Kindness -- Text Structure: Ways to Do Something -- Fairy Tale: Snow White and Rose Red -- Lesson 25. Manners -- Text Structure: Description -- Fairy Tale: The Story of the Three Bears -- Part VI. Structures for Making an Argument -- Lesson 26. Groups -- Text Structure: Crossing My Path -- Fairy Tale: The Three Billy Goats Gruff -- Lesson 27. Cutting Corners -- Text Structure: Now and Later -- Fairy Tale: The Three Little Pigs -- Lesson 28. Information -- Text Structure: Finding the Truth Through Experience -- Fairy Tale: The Three Sillies -- Lesson 29. Place -- Text Structure: Curiosity -- Fairy Tale: Thumbelina -- Lesson 30. Friendship -- Text Structure: Five-Paragraph Essay -- Fairy Tale: The Tinderbox -- Part VII. Structures for Content-Area Writing -- Lesson 31. Home -- Text Structure: Learning From Mistakes -- Fairy Tale: Tom Thumb -- Lesson 32. Mystery -- Text Structure: Solving a Mystery -- Fairy Tale: The Twelve Dancing Princesses -- Lesson 33. Humility -- Text Structure: Something Changed -- Fairy Tale: The Ugly Duckling -- Lesson 34. Perseverance -- Text Structure: Making a Change -- Fairy Tale: The Wild Swans -- Lesson 35. Deception -- Text Structure: Discovering the Truth.
Fairy Tale: The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids -- Appendices -- 1. Complete Text Structures Collection -- 2. 25 More Things to Do With These Lessons -- 3. Blank Student Planning Page -- 4. Text Chunkyard -- 5. Get Student Writers Talking: Conversation Strategies -- 6. Steps for the Truism Braid Essay -- 7. Reader Rubric With Words and Faces -- 8. Intensity Scale -- 9. What's Better … This? Or That? -- 10. Ms. Kern's Final Exam Project and Timetable -- 11. Truisms -- 12. Adding Details -- 13. Sparkling Sentences -- 14. The 11-Minute Essay -- 15. Ba-da-bing! -- 16. Writer's Toolbox With Dead Giveaways -- 17. Book Report Essays -- References.
Uses 35 engaging fairy tale-based lessons to give students the focused practice they need to produce effective, analytical writing on demand.
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