Strategies for Writing from Sources

Book excerpt: Students in today's classrooms must be able to draw evidence, reasons, and ideas from various sources. This invaluable classroom resource offers practical, easy-to-use strategies to help students analyze any text and use it as a source in their own writing. Sample lessons guide students to use the provided text both as a source for information as well as a mentor text. Each section includes 5 lessons tailored to the specific grade spans, and correlations to state standards for each grade span are also included.