Ways of Writing with Young Kids

Bundled together for the first time to apply reading and writing across the curriculum, these two outstanding resources provide practical direction for teaching reading outside of reading class. Making Non-Fiction and Other Informational Texts Come Alive: A Practical Approach to Reading, Writing, and Using Non-Fiction and Other Informational Texts Across the Curriculum offers a fresh approach. The book mirrors the features that are traditionally found in non-fiction--illustrations, diagrams, insets, boxed materials--to help clarify and explain the concepts being presented. It will help you utilize nonfiction books in a balanced literacy program. Packed with ideas and suggestions for the classroom, Pike and Mumper offer everything you need to know in order to use non-fiction in the classroom, from using it in literature circles, as models for writing, or for research purposes. Ways of Writing with Young Kids outlines how to help children write creatively and express ideas using many genres and styles of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry writing; conventionally learn the purposes of writing, mechanics and rules of grammar; and confidently discover the power of writing as a means of communication.Edwards, Sharon A. is the author of 'Ways of Writing with Young Kids', published 2004 under ISBN 9780205446513 and ISBN 0205446515.