Textual Analysis Made Easy : Ready-to-Use Tools for Teachers, Grades 5-8, Har...

by Taylor, C. Brian

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Textual Analysis Made Easy : Ready-to-Use Tools for Teachers, Grades 5-8, Hardcover by Taylor, C. Brian, ISBN 1138950645, ISBN-13 9781138950641, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In this new book, you’ll learn how to teach evidence-based writing using a variety of tools, activities, and sample literary texts. Showing elementary and middle school students how to think critically about what they’re reading can be a challenge, but author C. Brian Taylor makes it easy by presenting twelve critical thinking tools along with step-by-step instructions for implementing each one effectively in the classroom. You’ll learn how to: Design units and lesson plans that gradually introduce your students to more complex levels of textual analysis; Encourage students to dig deeper by using the 12 Tools for Critical Thinking; Help students identify context and analyze quotes with the Evidence Finder graphic organizer; Use the Secret Recipe strategy to construct persuasive evidence-based responses that analyze a text’s content or technique; Create Cue Cards to teach students how to recognize and define common literary devices. Th also offers a series of extra examples using mentor texts, so you can clearly see how the strategies in this book can be applied to excerpts from popular, canonical, and semi-historical literature. Additionally, a number of the tools and templates in th are available as free eResources from our website (), so you can start using them immediately in your classroom.

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781138950641
• Condition: Fine

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