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Through these instructional DVDs, Tony
Stead and Linda
Hoyt model the
minilessons and extended writing units in their Explorations
in Nonfiction Writing series.
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.