Teaching Complex Sentence Writing Using Children's Books: Grades 2 & 3 Volume 3: Standing Up for Civil Rights - Brossura

Parker, Tiffany M.

Brossura

ISBN 13: 9798991762243

Casa editrice: Crosswalk Education, 2025

Riassunto

Your students have great ideas.

You know this — you hear them during class discussions. Their thinking is rich, detailed, and thoughtful.

But then you ask them to write. And those rich, layered thoughts? Gone. Replaced by short, stiff sentences that barely scratch the surface of what they actually understand.

This isn’t a comprehension or motivation issue. Many students have the ideas—they just need help learning how to get those ideas onto the page.

Students do not need more random writing prompts. They need clear, repeated practice building sentences that carry meaning—connecting ideas, showing relationships, and expressing cause, contrast, and result. When students are taught how to write these sentences, writing stops being a mystery and starts being the natural extension of what they already think and say.

What's Inside:

• Sentence-writing activities specifically tailored to award-winning and well-respected children's books — allowing you to build writing skills while simultaneously building students' knowledge (each children's book is sold separately or you can check it out at the library)
• Every activity includes fully written prompts and sample responses — so you can model strong writing without creating examples from scratch
• Structures repeat across multiple book titles — providing students the focused practice they need so the mechanics become second nature and students can focus on what they want to say, not how to say it
• Approximately twelve activity types per children's book title — from Because-But-So Statements and Incorporating Dependent Clauses to Sentence Combining and Sentence Expansion, building increasingly sophisticated writing across the year

Featuring activities based on the following 17 children’s books (each sold separately):

• Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer, Leader, Legend by Justine and Ron Fontes
• The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage by Selina Alko
• Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins by Carole Boston Weatherford
• Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jean Marzollo
• Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President by Ann Malaspina
• Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
• I Am Martin Luther King, Jr. by Brad Meltzer
• I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote by Linda Arms White
• Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
• The Listeners by Gloria Whelan
• Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington by Frances Ruffin
• Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
• A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. by David A. Adler
• Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story by Ruby Bridges
• Separate Is Never Equal: The Story of Sylvia Mendez and Her Family by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney
• The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
• Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass by Dean Robbins

The Teaching Complex Sentence Writing Using Children’s Books Grades 2 & 3 series is perfect for:

• 2nd and 3rd grade teachers
• Homeschool parents and families who want writing practice connected to real children's books
• Reading and writing intervention teachers
• Literacy coaches

Everything fits within the teaching you're already doing. No new program. No extra planning. Just practical routines that work inside your existing read-aloud time — and build strong writing skills along the way.

Great thinking deserves strong sentences.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Crosswalk Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798991762243
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 123
• Contatto del produttore: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.it/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Lussemburgo