Text Forms and Features: A Resource for Intentional Teaching

by Margaret E. Mooney, Jerry Miller (Foreword)

In order to read and write a variety of text forms, students need to be exposed to and taught about those forms from an early age. Text Forms and Features lists the purpose, description, and key elements of many fiction and nonfiction text forms, from "Advertisements" to "Traditional Tales." Text Forms and Features is a companion to A Book Is a Present .

176 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2001

Reviews

[Erika]

Text that explicitly describes text forms and features of our common and not-so-common genres. Great resource for our genre units!

[Jen Munnerlyn]

This book has been ordered for the 2009-10 school year on the advice of Katherine Casey who led the NESA Literacy Coaching group meeting in Jordan in November, 2008.