Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Intermediate Writing, Grades 4-6 Book

Finally-a resource to help you teach writing specifically to intermediate students! Bestselling author Lori Jamison Rog presents 40 of her favorite tried-and-true research-based writing minilessons, covering everything from planning strategies to crafting specific genres. Each minilesson is linked to one or more of the six traits of effective writing and includes - A specific learning goal - Sample student writing to use as models - Graphic organizers to support guided practice - 'Teacher talk' to show you the language you might use when presenting the lesson - Additional teaching ideas to take your instruction even further This is not a prescriptive writing program; rather, think of this as a menu of lessons from which you may choose, fully adaptable to meet your students needs and fit into your curriculum.