1. Teaching with focus: the writer’s craft and genres
By Constance Bellamy Chiplock

2. Read Aloud
Teaching with the Writer’s Craft or Genre approach always begins with a Read-Aloud text.
Know your author. All author’s use a specific craft and genres target similar organization.
Begin sampling differing author’s and “find” their explicit “craft” or focus one genre at a time.
Students begin to understand what craft is after sampling authors and problem-solving what their craft is, as well as exploring different genres.

3. A Writer’s Craft: David Wiesner
David Wiesner’s Craft focuses on setting.
The sequential events of the story are organized by a tree falling down from a hurricane. The characters turn the tree into a pirate ship, a jungle, a space ship, etc.
This author uses his illustrations to tell a story.

4. A Writer’s Craft: Eric Carle
Eric Carle’s craft focuses on illustration and organization. He often focuses his craft on:
life-cycle
days of the week
Sequential numbers

5. Non-Fiction The Non-Fiction writer focuses on fact.
The book has organizational components such as:
table of contents
facts
real photos
index

6. Genres: Mystery Who dunnit? Character Development Evident Problem
Searching for the Solution

7. Genre: Comedy Main Character Humorous Encounters a situation
Problem-solves with humor
Dialogue

8. The Perspective
The Writer’s Craft, genre study or author’s study are approaches which easily can be applied to a blog.
The student can blog:
A writing piece modeled after an author’s craft.
A writing piece modeled after a genre and that list continues—historical fiction or cartoons, etc.
A comparison of pieces of a specific author.
Writing a different event, ending or sequence of events as one of the characters.
The examples are endless………..
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