Patterns of Power En Espaol: Inviting Bilingual Writers Into the Conventions of Spanish, Paperback

When you use Spanish-language books as mentor texts in your bilingual classrooms to teach grammar and conventions, you offer your students mirrors in which they see themselves reflected in the characters, settings, and cultural representations. Student engagement and excitement increases, and they become better readers and writers.

In Patterns of Power en espa ol: Inviting Bilingual Writers into the Conventions of Spanish, Grades, 1-5, bilingual teacher and coach Caroline Sweet has adapted lesson sets from the bestselling book Patterns of Power: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language, Grades, 1-5 for use in the bilingual classroom. With these adaptations, you can teach Spanish-language conventions authentically using 10-minute lessons that cover key Spanish grammar topics.

Inside you'll find:

• 53 lessons focused on teaching the conventions of the Spanish language
• Lesson sets that use the popular invitational process from Patterns of Power
• Model sentences excerpted from authentic Spanish-language children's trade books
• Correlation to Spanish TEKS
• A Patterns-of-Power Planning Guide adapted for Spanish

Patterns of Power en espa ol allows your bilingual students to notice, discover, and celebrate author craft in both languages. Through an examination of conventions and trying them out on their own students embrace both reading and writing and discover the power in each language.

Jeff Anderson -- For nearly thirty years, Jeff has inspired writers and teachers of grades 1-10 with the power and joy of the writing process. He has written five books for Stenhouse Publishers. He also writes middle-grade novels.

Whitney La Rocca is an elementary literacy coach and has spent over 20 years working with young readers and writers. She enjoys delivering professional development and coaching teachers in best practices to empower children to create their identities in the world of literacy.

Caroline Sweet is a Bilingual Literacy Coach at LCpl Nicholas S. Perez Elementary School in Austin, Texas. She has been a bilingual educator for 14 years and was named 2011 Teacher of the Year in Austin Independent School District. Caroline first met Jeff when she was a student in his fourth-grade classroom in 1991.