Contents: Writing workshop: are children choosing to write nonfiction? -- Patterns of intertextuality in nonfiction reports -- Strategic nonfiction writers: Caitlyn and Colin -- Experience-only nonfiction writers: Vanessa and Kristin -- Text-bound nonfiction writers: Kyle and Patrick -- Teaching nonfiction report writing: lessons learned
Summary
"This timely book explores the debate about how best to engage children in the writing of nonfiction and suggests many instructional strategies for K-6 classrooms. Using transcripts and descriptions of children's actual writing practices, the authors show that children willingly embrace nonfiction writing when the genre is given an important place in the classroom."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index
