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Models for Teaching Writing-Craft Target Skills

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This is a must have book for every writing teacher and school library. This book provides teachers with resource lists of trade books and educational books which are excellent models of specific writing crafts and writing genres. It is very user friendly.

As a third grade teacher, this book has been very useful. It saves me a lot of time locating models for a specific craft. I found that a lot of the titles listed in this resource book were titles I already had in my personal library. I didn't need to buy a lot of new books but instead Models for Teaching Writing-Craft helped me use my personal library collection more effectively.

Mary Beth Teacher Tampa Florida

Models for Teaching Writing-Craft Target Skills is a great resource tool for teachers interested in writing instruction. In order to teach specific writing skills, teachers need to read an example of the writing skill from a published author's work. The problem is that teachers are already strapped for time, and perusing many books searching for a specific skill is a cumbersome task. This book identifies specific writing skills and provides examples of published books modeling that skill. For example, if you want to teach a writing lesson on strong verbs, you can go to the Models book and find a list of books using strong verbs. This book is a must-have for schools teaching writing through specific target skills. It even has a record-keeping system included for recording the locations of these books for the next time they're needed. It is a true time-saving tool for teachers.