Corwin Text Structures From Picture Books, Grades 2-8

Teach students the architecture beneath a successful story-and boost their reading comprehension and writing skills for a lifetime. Based on master writing teacher Gretchen Bernabei”s instructional model, the lessons offer a lively, high-impact mix of reading aloud, discussion, modeling, student writing, and peer share. Plus, readers have access to a complete companion website full of text structure reproducibles, reading response prompts, additional lessons and extensions, students samples, and links to demo videos.

• This book helps students generate their own writing, using a text structure harvested from the work of professional authors.
• The illustrative stories teaches students how to retell a story, using the text structure from the story.
• Generate reading responses, using structures that support clarity.
• Analyze a story to construct thematic statements, capturing the authors message and bigger themes.
• Author: Stephen BriseÒo, Kayla BriseÒo, Gretchen Bernabei