Strategies for Writing from Sources

by Jessica Hathaway

Overview

Students in today's classrooms must be able to draw evidence, reasons, and ideas from various sources. This invaluable classroom resource offers practical, easy-to-use strategies to help students analyze any text and use it as a source in their own writing. Sample lessons guide students to use the provided text both as a source for information as well as a mentor text. Each section includes 5 lessons tailored to the specific grade spans, and correlations to state standards for each grade span are also included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781425815462
Publisher:	Shell Education
Publication date:	01/01/2016
Series:	Professional Resources
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	4 - 18 Years

About the Author

Jessica Hathaway, M.S.Ed., earned her B.A. in Psychology from Pomona College and her M.S. in Education from Northwestern University, with a concentration in literacy. She has conducted classroom-based research on the integration of different learning modalities into literacy instruction and spent several years working in the Los Angeles Unified School District teaching early elementary, instructing art enrichment classes, and mentoring novice teachers. Currently, Jessica enjoys writing and publishing educational texts and spending time with her husband and two young daughters.