10 Essential Writing Lessons: A Mentor Teacher Shares Classroom-Tested Strategies and More Than 40 Mini-Lessons That Help Students Become Skillful Writers - and Meet the Common Core State Standards

Drawing on her 28 years of teaching experience, Megan Sloan has identified the top ten writing lessons upper elementary students need, and she shares them here, divided into step-by-step mini-lessons that guide you through modeling skills and strategies, leading shared practice, and launching students’ independent writing. Complete with mentor text lists, conferring tips, and assessment ideas, and aligned with the Common Core State Standards, you’ll find everything you need for writing success!

Through her careful "gradual release" methods, Megan Sloan walks students through five lessons that develop the writing process, and then through five lessons that apply those skills to specific types of genre writing! Aligned with the CCSS!