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    The writing strategies book : your everything guide to developing skilled writers with 300 strategies / Jennifer Serravallo.

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    • Title:The writing strategies book : your everything guide to developing skilled writers with 300 strategies / Jennifer Serravallo.
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    • Variant Title:Your everything guide to developing skilled writers with 300 strategies
    • Author/Creator:Serravallo, Jennifer, author.
    • Published/Created:Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2017]

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Elementary)
      Creative writing (Elementary education)
      Language arts (Elementary)
    • Description:xii, 410 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
    • Summary:The Reading Strategies Book made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students' needs to high-quality instruction. Now, in The Writing Strategies Book, Jen Serravallo does the same, collecting 300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, and grouping them beneath 10 crucial goals. "You can think of the goals as the what, "writes Jen, "and the strategies as the how." From composing with pictures all the way to conventions and beyond, you'll have just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's help you'll: develop individual goals for every writer; give students step-by-step strategies for writing with skill and craft; coach writers using prompts aligned to a strategy; present mentor texts that support a genre and strategy; adjust instruction to meet individual needs with Jen's Teaching Tips; demonstrate and explain a writing move with her Lesson Language; learn more with Hat Tips to the work of influential teacher-authors. She even offers suggestions for stocking your writing center, planning units of study, celebrating student writing, and keeping records. Whether you use Writing Workshop, 6+1 Traits, Daily 5's "Work on Writing," a scripted writing program, the writing exercises in your basal, or any other approach, you'll discover a treasure chest of ways to work with whole classes, small groups, or individual writers. -- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-409).
    • ISBN:9780325078229 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
      032507822X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: Goal 1 Composing with Pictures
      Strategy 1.1 Talk (as You Draw)
      1.2. Point Around the Pictures
      1.3. Reread Your Pictures So It Sounds like a Storybook
      1.4. Reread Your Pictures to Teach
      1.5. Add Detail to Make Pictures Easier to Read
      1.6. Label Your Pictures
      1.7. Look Back and Say, "How Can I Make This Clearer?"
      1.8. Make Your Picture Look like the Picture in Your Mind
      1.9. Left to Right
      1.10. You Can Come Back to a Piece and Do More
      1.11. Drew the People? Draw the Place!
      1.12. Writing Across the Pages
      1.13. Series of Pictures to Show Change
      1.14. Circles and Sticks
      1.15. Drawing with Shapes
      1.16. Touch, Then Draw
      1.17. Draw (the Best You Can) and Move On!
      1.18. Imagine It, Make It!
      Goal 2 Engagement: Independence, Increasing Volume, and Developing a Writing Identity
      Strategy 2.1 Create Your Best Environment
      2.2. Picture the End! (Or, Imagine It Done)
      2.3. Listen. Praise
      2.4. Use the Room
      2.5. Decide a Piece Is "Finished" (for Now)
      -and Self-Start a New One
      2.6. Writers Are Problem Solvers
      2.7. Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword
      2.8. Keep Your Pencil in Your Hand/Fingers on the Keyboard
      2.9. Partners Can Give Gentle Reminders to Stay on Track
      2.10. Silence the "It's No Good" Voice
      2.11. Make a Plan for Writing Time
      2.12. Reread to Jump Back In
      2.13. Keep Objects Close
      2.14. Seta "More" Goal for the Whole Writing Time
      2.15. Break Up Your Writing Time into Smaller Chunks
      2.16. Stuck with Writing? Read
      2.17. Imagine Your Audience
      2.18. Keep a Side Project
      2.19. Consult a Fellow Writer
      2.20. Experiment with Change
      2.21. Why Do You Write?
      2.22. One Bite at a Time
      2.23. Your Aim: Black on White
      2.24. Make It a Habit
      2.25. Live Like Someone Consumed by a Project
      2.26. Write to Vent, Then Turn to Your Project
      2.27. Be Realistic
      Goal 3 Generating and Collecting Ideas
      Strategy 3.1 Important People
      3.2. Moments with Strong Feelings
      3.3. Observe Closely
      3.4. Photo Starts
      3.5. Mapping the Heart
      3.6. Reread and Look for Patterns
      3.7. Writing to Change the World!
      3.8. Walk Your World
      3.9. Interview to Dig for and Uncover Topics
      3.10. Scrapbook Your Life (to Write About It Later)
      3.11. Mine Mentor Texts for Topics
      3.12. These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
      3.13. Start with a Character
      3.14. Listen for (and Write!) Music
      3.15. Jot Today, Write Tomorrow
      3.16. Give Yourself Exercises/Assignments
      3.17. Get Sparked by Setting
      3.18. Tour Your Home
      3.19. Always Times, One Time
      3.20. Ideas for Other Genres Might Be Hiding (in Plain Sight!)
      3.21. Borrow a (Spark) Line
      3.22. Found Poems
      3.23. Over and Over
      3.24. Wonder, "What If ... ?"
      3.25. Mix and Match Story Elements
      3.26. Word Mapping
      3.27. If It Could Go on Facebook, You Can Jot It in a Notebook
      3.28. Ask Yourself Questions (and Then Answer Them)
      3.29. Collect Triggers
      3.30. Subtopics Hiding in Topics
      3.31. Purposefully Wander
      3.32. Abstract Issues, Specific Examples
      3.33. Scan the Newspaper
      3.34. Read Something on an Unfamiliar Topic
      3.35. Person vs. Nature
      3.36. Find Characters and Ideas in the World
      3.37. Defining Moments
      3.38. Start with an Outlandish Claim
      Goal 4 Focus/Meaning
      Strategy 4.1 Make Your Pictures and Your Words Agree
      4.2. Focus in Time
      4.3. Find the Heart
      4.4. Write a Title
      4.5. Write About a Pebble
      4.6. Zoom In on a Moment of Importance
      4.7. Ask Questions to Focus
      4.8. Find Your Passion to Focus
      4.9. Imagine Your Audience and Consider Your Purpose
      4.10. Write a Poem to Try On a Focus
      4.11. Cut It to the Bone
      4.12. Underline One Line (That Says the Most)
      4.13. Their Topic, Your Idea
      4.14. Use a Search Engine to Find Connections
      4.15. Focus on an Image
      4.16. Find a Theme in Your Collection
      4.17. Craft an "Elevator Speech"
      4.18. Craft a Thesis
      4.19. "So What?" Rule
      4.20. Write "Off the Page"
      4.21. Focus on an Issue
      4.22. What Problem Are You Solving?
      4.23. Experimental Draft to Find Focus
      4.24. Let Available Sources Steer Your Focus
      4.25. Shape Your Focus with Active Verbs
      Goal 5 Organization and Structure
      Strategy 5.1 Pattern Books
      5.2. Say Say Say, Sketch Sketch Sketch, Write Write Write
      5.3. Add a Page, Subtract a Page
      5.4. Move a Page to a New Place
      5.5. All About or One Time?
      5.6. Teaching Texts: How-Tos
      5.7. Organize in Sequence
      5.8. Uh-Oh ... UH-OH ... Phew
      5.9. Beef Up the Middle
      5.10. Question
      Answer
      5.11. End in the Moment
      5.12. End with Last Words from the Character
      5.13. Start with a Table of Contents
      5.14. Parts of a Topic: Features and Characteristics
      5.15. Parts of a Topic: Kinds
      5.16. Moving from Chunk to Chunk
      5.17. Line Breaks
      5.18. Start with a Plan in Mind
      5.19. Create Urgency
      5.20. Nonfiction Leads
      5.21. Lead by Addressing the Reader
      5.22. Audiences for Information
      5.23. Draw Your Layout
      5.24. Outline, Reoutline, Outline Again
      5.25. Lay Out Pages to See the Architecture
      5.26. Take Scissors to Your Draft
      5.27. Draw Out (Don't Summarize) to Build Suspense
      5.28. Repetition/List Structure
      5.29. Multiscene Storyboarding
      5.30. Problem-Solution Structure for Persuasive Writing
      5.31. Moving Quickly (or Slowly) Through Time
      5.32. Take a Piece, Rework the Genre or Structure Several Times
      5.33. Headings, Subheadings, Sub-Subheadings
      5.34. Weight the Parts of Your Piece
      5.35. Coming Full Circle
      5.36. Seesaw Structure
      5.37. Conclude with the Big Idea
      5.38. Parallel Story
      5.39. Write the Bones, Then Go Back to Flesh It Out
      5.40. Leading with Contrast
      Goal 6 Elaboration
      Strategy 6.1 Pictures Teach, Words Teach
      6.2. Add More to Your Pictures (Then, Maybe More to Your Words!)
      6.3. Speech Bubbles Let Your Characters Talk
      6.4. Act It Out. Then Get It Down
      6.5. "Nudge" Paper
      6.6. Teach with Diagrams
      6.7. See the World like a Poet (Metaphor and Simile)
      6.8. Flaps and Carets
      6.9. "What Else Happened?"
      6.10. Prove It
      6.11. Take Notes from an Illustration or a Photo
      6.12. Cracking Open Nouns
      6.13. Show, Don't Tell: Using Senses to Describe Places
      6.14. Show, Don't Tell: Emotions
      6.15. Let Your Readers Know Who's Talking!
      6.16. Read Mentor Texts with Two Lenses: Information, Aesthetic
      6.17. Research from People (Interviews)
      6.18. Keeping a Research Notebook
      6.19. Read, Sketch, Stretch
      6.20. External Character Description
      6.21. Write the "Inside Story"
      6.22. Support Your Facts
      6.23. Partner Facts: Ask Yourself, "How?"
      6.24. Use a Refrain
      6.25. Cracking Open Verbs
      6.26. Exploring Options for Setting
      6.27. Picture Your Character
      6.28. Tell What It's Not (to Say What It Is)
      6.29. Be Patient, Go Slow
      6.30. Bring in the Periphery
      6.31. Use Empathy to Figure Out What to Add
      6.32. Writing Through a Mask
      6.33. How Does Your Character Talk?
      6.34. Character Dialogue and Dialect for Historical Accuracy
      6.35. Use Imagery to Make a Fact Come Alive
      6.36. Get the Sound (of Some Mentors) in Your Head
      6.37. Be Your Own Harshest Critic
      6.38. Mentor Sentence
      6.39. Talk to Yourself
      6.40. Character Gestures to Show Traits
      6.41. Anecdotes Can Teach and Give Evidence
      6.42. Rule of Threes
      6.43. Lie (to Tell the Truth)
      6.44. Weave in Symbolism
      6.45. Clue In the Reader to the Past (Flashback)
      Goal 7 Word Choice
      Strategy 7.1 Onomatopoeia: Sound Effects
      7.2. Write with Authority: Domain-Specific Vocabulary
      7.3. Precise Nouns
      7.4. Personify to Bring Objects to Life
      7.5. Verbs That Match the Meaning
      7.6. Shades of Meaning
      7.7. Alphabox
      7.8. Sneaky Sounds: Alliteration, Consonance, and Assonance
      7.9. Rhythm
      7.10. Read Aloud to Find "Clunks"
      7.11. Words That Match the Audience
      7.12. Revisit the Language Gems in Your Notebook
      7.13. Make Your Own Word
      7.14. Leave Only the Essential Words
      7.15. Rhyme Time
      7.16. Clever Titles, Headings, and Subheadings
      7.17. Hyperbole
      7.18. Vary Words to Eliminate Repetition
      7.19. Watch Your Tone
      7.20. Choose Your Pronouns
      7.21. Short Long Short
      7.22. Gut Check Each Word
      7.23. Not "So" "Very" "Nice"
      7.24. Know When to Keep an Adverb
      7.25. Work for More-Precise Language (by Taking Out Adjectives and Adverbs)
      7.26. Rewrite a Line (Again and Again and Again)
      7.27. Surprising Verbs
      7.28. Surprising Nouns
      7.29. Name Your Characters and Places
      7.30. Specific, Definite, Concrete: Allow Your Words to Call Up Pictures
      7.31. Omit Needless Words
      Goal 8 Conventions: Spelling and Letter Formation
      Strategy 8.1 Long or Short Word?
      8.2. Talk like a Turtle
      8.3. Consult the Alphabet Chart
      8.4. Write, Reread, Write, Reread, Repeat
      8.5. When's It Big? When's It Small?
      8.6. Penmanship Counts!
      8.7. Write Word Wall Words in a Snap!
      8.8. Vowel Charts for the Middles of Words
      8.9. Spell as Best You Can
      -on the First Go
      8.10. Use Your Resources to Spell
      8.11. Part-by-Part Spelling
      8.12. Chin Drops
      Contents note continued: 8.13. Visualize the Word and Have a Go
      8.14. Use Words You Know to Spell Unknown Words
      8.15. Read Your Writing Backward (and Catch Spelling Mistakes!)
      8.16. Circle and Spell
      8.17. Making It Plural (Consonants Plus -s or -es)
      8.18. Turn to Spell-Check
      8.19. Check for Homophones
      8.20. Apostrophes for Contractions
      8.21. To Apostrophe or Not to Apostrophe? (Possessives)
      8.22. Making It Plural (While Changing the Base Word)
      Goal 9 Conventions: Grammar and Punctuation
      Strategy 9.1 Make Lines for What You Want to Write
      9.2. Finger Space
      9.3. Read with Your Finger
      9.4. Repeated Rereadings to Check a Checklist
      9.5. Does It Sound like a Book?
      9.6. Ellipses
      9.7. To And or Not to And?
      9.8. Guess What! Complete Sentences
      9.9. Don't Overdo It!
      9.10. Colons
      9.11. Punctuating (and Paragraphing) Speech
      9.12. Pause for Periods
      9.13. Voice Comma
      9.14. Group Words for Comprehension: Commas
      9.15. Say It with Feeling!
      9.16. Paragraph Starters
      9.17. Read Your Draft Aloud and Listen
      9.18. Match the Number of the Subject to the Number of the Verb
      9.19. Knowing When You Need a New Paragraph
      9.20. Negative + Negative = Positive
      9.21. Irregular Verbs and Subject-Verb Agreement
      9.22. Eliminating Repetition with Sentence Combining
      9.23. Revising Run-On Sentences
      9.24. Creating Complex Sentences
      9.25. Creating Compound Sentences
      9.26. Dashes
      9.27. Play with Pauses
      9.28. I or Me? Us or We? They or Them?
      9.29. Parenthetic Expressions
      9.30. Verb Tense Consistency Within a Sentence
      9.31. Considering Sentence Length
      9.32. Semicolons
      9.33. Accentuate the Positive (Tightening Up Sentences)
      9.34. Rephrase for Clarity
      9.35. When Did the Action Happen? (Simple, Continuous, and Perfect Tenses)
      Goal 10 Collaborating with Writing Partners and Clubs
      Strategy 10.1 Use a Partner to Hear More Sounds in Words
      10.2. Using Partners to Make Writing More Readable
      10.3. Storytelling from Sketches
      10.4. Talk Around the Idea, Then Write
      10.5. Make Promises (You Can Keep)
      10.6. Partner Inquisition (to Get Your Thinking Going)
      10.7. Tell Me: Does It Make Sense?
      10.8. Partner Space
      10.9. Help Wanted/Help Offered
      10.10. POP (Praise, Question, Polish)
      10.11. Tell Me: Does It Match My Intention?
      10.12. Interrupt Your Partner
      10.13. Dig for Fictional Details with a Partner
      10.14. Form a Club
      10.15. Storytelling to Figure Out Point of View and Perspective
      10.16. Tell Me: How Does It Affect You?
      10.17. Code the Text
      10.18. Written Response
      10.19. Changes and Choices.
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