Its one of educations greatest challenges: How do we shape our youngest students, who often are just learning how to hold a pencil, into capable writers within the span of a single school year? Text Structures from Nursery Rhymesoffers the solution: a clear and actionable framework for guiding young students to write successfully in any style, from narrative to descriptive to persuasive. The key to the strategy lies in using familiar text structures to break down a story into its main components for example, "Where I was," "Who I saw," and "What I thought" in order to immediately thrust students into the role of the writer. This groundbreaking book provides 53 lessons, each centered around a classic nursery rhyme, and all the tools youll need to Capitalize on the storys rhythm and rhyme to make an instant connection with your studentsConvey the storys text structure using the lessons whimsical illustrations, providing a visual model that resonates with childrenLead the classroom in creating new stories in words, pictures, or both utilizing the text structure youve definedPut each nursery rhyme to work as a springboard for important language-arts topicsFine-tune your approach at every step based on your preferred teaching style and students progress PutText Structures from Nursery Rhymesto work in your classroom and discover how text structures, already a remarkable success in later grades, can also have a profound impact on younger students progress. Bonus! Includes eight downloadable paper dolls1 man, 1 woman, 1 girl, 1 boy, and 4 animals. Your students can use the paper dolls to retell the nursery rhymes, illustrate their own stories based on a nursery rhyme, or even to act out stories from other books in your classroom library.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Corwin Literacy .

There are 280 pages in this book. This book was published in 2017 by SAGE Publications Inc .