Using Literature to Enhance Writing Instruction

A Guide for K–5 Teachers

Rebecca Olness

Learn how to use literature to teach your students the six traits that characterize effective writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.

This practical text gives you a variety of ideas and strategies for developing and integrating the traits into students’ writing, bibliographies of recommended children’s literature, assessment ideas, and sample lesson plans. Plus, you’ll get ideas on how to provide time for your students to read aloud and write every day.

An IRA Book Club selection, October 2004

© 2005 | 216 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-560-5 | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-560-3

Also from Rebecca Olness:

• Using Literature to Enhance Content Area Instruction

Also of interest:

Informational Text in K–3 Classrooms

Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Beginning Writing, K-3

Setting the Stage for Creative Writing

Developing Reading-Writing Connections

Reading and Writing Literary Genres

Learning to Write, Writing to Learn

Related lesson plans:

Once Upon a Link: A PowerPoint Adventure With Fractured Fairy Tales

This Is My Story: Encouraging Students to Use a Unique Voice

Once They're Hooked, Reel Them In: Writing Good Endings

A–Z: Learning About the Alphabet Book Genre

Fishing for Readers: Identifying and Writing Effective Opening ‘Hooks’

Teaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales