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Crunchtime: Lessons to Help Students Blow the Roof Off Writing Tests--and Become Better Writers in the Process Book

Crunchtime: Lessons to Help Students Blow the Roof Off Writing Tests--and Become Better Writers in the Process
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  • Crunchtime: Lessons to Help Students Blow the Roof Off Writing Tests--and Become Better Writers in the Process
  • Written by author Gretchen S. Bernabei
  • Published by Heinemann, August 2009
  • Watch an overview by Gretchen. Book study groups and professional learning communities, click here to save when you order 15 copies of Crunchtime. A $315 value for $267.75. Save $47.25. "Our schools should be accountable, but do they have
  • In this eagerly-anticipated teacher resource, master teachers Gretchen Bernabei, Jayne Hover, and Cynthia Candler share writing lessons that are healthy for kids, promote lifelong literacy, and, coincidentally, will help your students blow the roof off of
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Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction Gretchen Bernabei xvii

The Thermometer Rubric xvii

Sharing Within the Profession xviii

Two Teachers Jayne Hover Cynthia Candler xviii

But Shouldn't Test Writing Be the Same as Real Writing? xix

Knowing the Research xx

Part 1 From Idea to Draft (Gretchen's Story) 1

Chapter 1 Selecting a Topic 7

Levels of Personal Experience 7

The Quicklist 14

Student Spotlight Guadalupe 22

Chapter 2 Organizing and Prewriting Structures 24

The Talking List 24

Writing a Kernel Essay with Text Structures 28

The Flipbook 36

The Fake Flipbook 54

Student Spotlight Esequiel 59

Part 2 Revision and Development (Cynthia's Story) 61

Chapter 3 Writing with Style 65

Expanding a Sentence: Revision Stations 65

Telling the Story, Asking Questions 73

The F.I.T. Chart 77

Sparkling Sentences 84

Truisms with Picture Prompts 88

Ba-da-bing Sentences 98

Student Spotlight William 102

Chapter 4 The Devil's in the Details 104

Great Beginnings 104

Common Mistakes and Quick Fixes 109

Preparing the Final Copy 112

Part 3 Crunchtime Tools and Minilessons (Jayne's Story: Teaching Writing or Teaching Testing?) 115

Chapter 5 Countdown to the Test 121

KISS (Keep It Surprisingly Simple): The Concept 121

KISS Lesson Plans for Writing 123

Chapter 6 Minilessons with High-Scoring Student Papers 130

Appendix

Research on Foundations of Effective Writing Instruction 137

Beliefs and Experiences 139

Student Chart for Brainstorming "Bank Experiences" 141

Student Topic Lists 142

Quicklists for Other Genres 144

Connecting Life Experiences to Life Truths 146

A Memory Chart 147

The Story of My Thinking Chart147

Evolution of a Term Chart 147

Discovering a Lie Chart 147

Tribute to a Person Who Taught Me Something 148

Backfire Chart 148

Metamorphosis Chart 148

Cause and Effect Chart 148

Expository, I-Search, and Literary Analysis Text Structures 149

Sample Pages of a Flipbook 150

Revision Stations 151

Cause and Effect (If...Then...) 152

Student Self-Check Flipbook 153

Student Self-Check Flipbook Final Copy 154

Scoring Guide 155

The Fake Flipbook 156

Where's the BEEF? 158

F.I.T. Chart 159

KISS Lesson Plan 160

Writer's Toolbox 161

Minilessons 162

Works Cited 165


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