How-to books
Subtitle: writing to teach others
By: Lucy Calkins, Laurie Pessah, and Elizabeth Moore ; photography by Peter Cunningham
Contributors: Pessah, Laurie, author; Moore, Elizabeth (Writing teacher)
Publisher: Firsthand, an imprint of Heinemann
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780325047225
Subjects: Composition and exercises; Exposition (Rhetoric); English language; Study and teaching (Early childhood)
Notes: "Grade K, Unit 3, information"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Writers study the kind of writing they plan to make; title: Writers use what they already know : touching and telling the steps across the pages; title: Writers become readers, asking, "can I follow this?"; title: Writers answer a partner's questions; title: Writers label their diagrams to teach even more information; title: Writers write as many books as you can; title: Writers reflect and set goals to create their best information writing; title: Writers emulate features of informational writing using a mentor text; title: Writing for your readers : using the word you; title: How-to book writers picture each step and then choose exactly right words; title: Elaboration in how-to books : writers guide readers with warnings, suggestions, and tips; title: "Balance on one leg like a flamingo : using comparisons to give readers clear directions; title: Writers write how-to books about things they learn, throughout the day and from books; title: Writing a series or collection of how-to books to teach others even more about a topic; title: Writers can write introductions and conclusions to help their readers; title: Writers use everything they know to make their how-to book easy to read; title: How-to books make wonderful gifts!; title: Preparing for the publishing party : writers do their best work now to share it later; title: Publishing celebrations : writers are teachers.