Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8

161 Pages·2001·0.88 MB·English

by  Joann Portalupi

Nonfiction
Craft
Lessons
Teaching Information Writing K–8
JoAnn Portalupi
Ralph Fletcher
Stenhouse Publishers
Portland,Maine
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to Don Murray,
who continues to inspire us
with his passion for the craft of writing
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Contents
Alphabetical List of Nonfiction Craft Lessons vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Setting the Table for Nonfiction Craft 5
Adorning the Table: Nonfiction Literature
for Students 13
Nonfiction Craft Lessons K–2 19
Nonfiction Craft Lessons 3–4 49
Nonfiction Craft Lessons 5–8 79
Questions and Answers 107
Appendixes A–V 113
References 143
Topic Index 146
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Alphabetical List of
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
AddingSupportingDetails K–2 46
AiringtheOpposingPointof View 5–8 103
AnticipatingReaders’Questions K–2 30
AttendingtoSetting 3–4 71
BeginningwiththeSetting K–2 42
Creatinga“DescriptionCard”foranOld
ObjectorArtifact K–2 36
CreatingaGlossary 3–4 76
DefiningNewVocabularyinContext 5–8 96
DescribingYourSubject 3–4 61
DescribingYourSubject 5–8 89
DesigningaQuestion/AnswerBook K–2 39
DrawingonPersonalExperience K–2 40
DrawingaSeriesof PicturestoShowChange K–2 33
EndwithaBang! 5–8 106
EstablishingtheSignificanceof aFact 5–8 101
Exploratory:ActivatingPriorKnowledge 5–8 81
Exploratory:Collecting“DashFacts”onaTopic K–2 24
Exploratory:ComingUpwithGoodQuestions 5–8 82
Exploratory:ListeningforYourVoice K–2 27
Exploratory:MakingItLively 5–8 83
Exploratory:ObservingtheWorld K–2 21
Exploratory:OutliningtheBeginning,Middle,
andEnd 3–4 52
Exploratory:TakingNotes K–2 23
Exploratory:TakingNotesfromanIllustration K–2 25
Exploratory:TalkingAboutYourResearch K–2 26
Exploratory:TalkingBeforeYouWrite K–2 22
Exploratory:UsingQuestionstoOutline 3–4 51
Exploratory:WritingaFlashDraft 5–8 84
FiguringOutWhatIs(andIsn’t)True K–2 34
FocusingontheOne 3–4 56
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IncludingDetailedDrawings 3–4 73
IncludingQuotations 5–8 91
IntegratingPersonalExperienceintoan
ExpositoryText 5–8 99
IntroducingandUsingNewVocabulary 5–8 97
JazzingUpYourTitle 3–4 53
LabelingaPicture K–2 31
LeavingOutWhattheReaderAlreadyKnows 3–4 63
ListingProsandConsof anArgument 5–8 102
MakingaDiagram K–2 32
MakingTransitionsBetweenParagraphs 5–8 93
NarrowingYourFocus 3–4 55
PuttingtheReaderintoYourWriting 3–4 66
PuttingTensioninYourTitle 5–8 85
PuttingVoiceintoNonfictionWriting 3–4 65
RepeatingaKeyLine K–2 44
RevealingaSubjectThroughtheNarrator’sEye 5–8 92
SelectingFascinatingFacts 3–4 69
SharpeningYourLead 5–8 87
SpeakingDirectlytotheReader K–2 45
TakingPoeticLicense 5–8 105
TeachingInformationThroughaPoem 3–4 77
UsingAnecdotestoTeach 5–8 98
UsingaCharttoSummarizeInformation 5–8 94
UsingCommastoListMultipleFacts 3–4 64
UsingComparisons K–2 43
UsingComparisons 3–4 68
UsingaDraftBooktoLayOutInformation K–2 28
UsingHumor 5–8 104
UsingRepetitionforEmphasis 3–4 67
UsingSpecificswithHow-toWriting 5–8 90
UsingaStorytoTeachInformation K–2 41
UsingStrongVerbs 3–4 72
UsingSubheadingstoOrganizeInformation 3–4 60
UsingSubheadingstoOrganizeInformation 5–8 86
UsingSupportingDetailsandExamples 3–4 62
UsingTimeasanOrganizer 5–8 100
VaryingPlacementof TopicSentences 5–8 95
WritinganAcrosticInformationPoem K–2 38
WritinganAlphabetInformationBook K–2 35
WritingaBookBlurb 3–4 74
WritingaCaptionforaPhotographorDrawing 3–4 75
WritinganIntroduction 3–4 57
WritingaNarrativeLead 5–8 88
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WritinginParagraphForm 3–4 58
WritingaStrongLeadforaBiography 3–4 70
WritingSubtitlesThatTeach 3–4 54
WritingaTableof Contents K–2 29
WritingThroughaMask K–2 37
WritingaTopicSentence 3–4 59
WritingwithVoice K–2 47
AlphabeticalListofNonfictionCraftLessons ix
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