Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills (Second Edition)

For Multiple Grades Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills  is your go-to guide for writing-craft instruction through exemplary and accessible literature models. Writing-craft Target Skills—those specific techniques that all good writers use to effectively craft clear and compelling fiction and non-fiction—are best taught through explicit modeling. Locating the appropriate mentor texts for every skill, however, can be a daunting and time-consuming task. This innovative resource puts more than 450 valuable literature models at your fingertips and matches them to thirty-three fundamental writing-craft Target Skills. To add variety and versatility to your K-8 writing classroom, Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills includes a wide assortment of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry selections, ranging from picture books to intermediate texts.  This revised and updated second edition also includes more than seventy Spanish literature models that are ideal for ESL/ELL writin