Mini Moves for Every Writer

Discover strategies to strengthen students' writing. Authors Sam Futrell and Rebekah O'Dell provide educators with small moves and mentor texts to help students hone their voice, craft with intention, and write with confidence. With targeted approaches, videos, and ready-to-use workbooks, this book supports students as they master 10 different writing skills while enhancing literacy in any content area.

Grades 6-12 teachers can use this book to:

Equip students with effective strategies to hone their writing in any content area Teach students how to make claims, define, use evidence, contextualize, and more Receive mentor texts across each skill in the areas of pop culture, mathematics, science, and history Employ flexible templates to adapt mini moves for group and individual instruction Share five moves that achieve each of the 10 skills

Contents:

Part 1: An Introduction to Mini Moves Chapter 1: The Case for Mini Moves Chapter 2: Mini Moves in Your Classroom Part 2: Moves for Every Writer Chapter 3: Moves That Introduce Chapter 4: Moves That Make a Claim Chapter 5: Moves That Define Chapter 6: Moves That Describe Chapter 7: Moves That Provide Evidence Chapter 8: Moves That Summarize Chapter 9: Moves That Contextualize Chapter 10: Moves That Add Voice Chapter 11: Moves That Conclude Chapter 12: Moves That Organize Afterword Appendix A: Mini Move Lesson Plan Templates Appendix B: All Moves by Content Area Appendix C: Writing Application Practice Appendix D: Moves Remix Appendix E: Connecting Your Standards to Mini Moves References and Resources Index