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Reading With a Writer's Eye: Why Book Choice Matters
Author(s) -
Culham Ruth
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1002/trtr.1759
Subject(s) - fluency , reading (process) , psychology , quality (philosophy) , sentence , rhetorical modes , narrative , argument (complex analysis) , linguistics , literacy , mathematics education , pedagogy , epistemology , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry
Learning how to choose and use diverse literature for students to read and as an inspiration for their writing has never been more important, as more than 50% of today's students in U.S. classrooms do not identify as white. This teaching tip explores the importance of finding high‐quality diverse literature for all learners and how to use these books as mentor texts for writing based on the traits of writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. The author models combining high‐quality diverse literature and the traits for readers in a fully developed lesson plan that leads to writing in different modes (narrative, informational, opinion/argument), based on the picture book A Different Pond by Bao Phi.