Good writing = good thinking. 💡 And when students learn to sustain a cogent line of reasoning, they’re not just writing better essays—they’re learning how to transfer their brilliant thoughts onto paper.
In this new video (a true labor of love ❤️), I break down the reasoning moves inside beloved children’s books like The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, and Are You My Mother? 📚
🌟 Bonus: In the description, you’ll find a slide deck with teacher notes that unpack the line of reasoning in each story. In fact, the slide deck includes everything you’ll need – exemplars, directions, definitions … a step-by-step breakdown.
🎨 And the grand finale? Students get to write their own children’s books while practicing sustained reasoning. To show what this looks like in action, I even wrote two exemplars: Clara the Cow Wants to Become a Big Mac 🐄🍔 and Ricky the Race Car 🏎️.\
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