Textual Analysis Made Easy

<p>In this new book you’ll learn how to teach evidence-based writing using a variety of tools activities and sample literary texts. Showing elementary and middle school students how to think critically about what they’re reading can be a challenge but author C. Brian Taylor makes it easy by presenting twelve critical thinking tools along with step-by-step instructions for implementing each one effectively in the classroom. You’ll learn how to:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Design units and lesson plans that gradually introduce your students to more complex levels of textual analysis;</li> <p> </p> <li>Encourage students to dig deeper by using the <i>12 Tools for Critical Thinking</i>;</li> <p> </p> <li>Help students identify context and analyze quotes with the <i>Evidence Finder</i> graphic organizer;</li> <p> </p> <li>Use the <i>Secret Recipe</i> strategy to construct persuasive evidence-based responses that analyze a text’s content or technique;</li> <p> </p> <li>Create <i>Cue Cards</i> to teach students how to recognize and define common literary devices.</li> </ul><p>The book also offers a series of extra examples using mentor texts so you can clearly see how the strategies in this book can be applied to excerpts from popular canonical and semi-historical literature. Additionally a number of the tools and templates in the book are available as free eResources from our website (http://www.routledge.com/9781138950658) so you can start using them immediately in your classroom. </p>