Gretchen S. Bernabei

A popular workshop presenter and winner of NCTE’s James Moffett Award in 2010, Gretchen Bernabei has been teaching kids to write in middle school and high school classrooms for more than thirty years. In addition to four other professional books and numerous articles for NCTE journals, she is the author of National Geographic School Publications’ The Good Writer’s Kit, as well as Lightning in a Bottle, a CD of visual writing prompts.

Books

Text Structures From Picture Books [Grades 2-8]

Lessons to Ease Students Into Text Analysis, Reading Response, and Writing With Craft

By: Stephen Briseño, Kayla Briseño and Gretchen S. Bernabei

Text Structures and Fables

Teaching Students to Write About What They Read, Grades 3-12

By: Gretchen S. Bernabei and Jayne Hover

Text Structures From Poetry, Grades 4-12

Lessons to Help Students Read, Analyze, and Create Poems They Will Remember

By: Gretchen S. Bernabei and Laura Van Prooyen

Text Structures From Fairy Tales

Truisms That Help Students Write About Abstract Concepts . . . and Live Happily Ever After, Grades 4-12

By: Gretchen S. Bernabei and Judith A. Reimer

Text Structures From the Masters

50 Lessons and Nonfiction Mentor Texts to Help Students Write Their Way In and Read Their Way Out of Every Single Imaginable Genre, Grades 6-10

By: Gretchen S. Bernabei and Jennifer L. Koppe

Text Structures From Nursery Rhymes

Teaching Reading and Writing to Young Children

By: Gretchen S. Bernabei, Kayla Shook and Jayne Hover

Grammar Keepers

Lessons That Tackle Students' Most Persistent Problems Once and for All, Grades 4-12

By: Gretchen S. Bernabei

Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning

101 Lessons & Mentor Texts--Narrative, Opinion/Argument, & Informative/Explanatory, Grades 4-9

By: Gretchen S. Bernabei and Judith A. Reimer