Nonfiction Writing

"Young children need control over the various types of nonfiction texts. They need to take these into their lives. In these DVDs, we and other master teachers, model powerful ways to achieve this with real children in real classrooms." -Tony Stead and Linda Hoyt Through these instructional DVDs, Tony Steadand Linda Hoyt model the minilessons and extended writing units in their Explorations in Nonfiction Writingseries. Live-from-the-classroom video footage lets you eavesdrop on Tony and Linda as they, and other master teachers, teach primary students how to craft informative and engaging nonfiction texts. In the first DVD, Tony and Linda model more than a dozen ready-to-use strategies for supporting excellent nonfiction writing. They show how to provide appropriate scaffolds for budding nonfiction writers as they work with research stations, Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction (RAN) charts, and other research and recording techniques, as well as demonstrating writing lessons for math, science, and language arts. In addition to showing you how to address conventions and increase the volume of student writing, Tony and Linda also offer craft lessons that lift the quality of writing. In the second DVD, Tony and Linda model the planning and the payoffs involved in teaching extended writing units. Through selected clips, they first walk you through a collaborative, whole-class unit on report writing. Then they show you in detail how first-and second-grade students apply this new learning as they create their own individual reports. This DVD concludes by letting you peer in on a persuasive writing unit with kindergarteners. Offering rich opportunities for group analysis and discussion, these DVDs are ideally suited to support professional learning communities. This series includes: * Explorations in Nonfiction Writing: Grades K * Explorations in Nonfiction Writing: Grades 1 * Explorations in Nonfiction Writing: Grades 2 * Nonfiction Writing DVD: Intentional, Connected, and Engaging, Grades K-2 * Crafting Nonfiction: Les