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\nTeachEngineering: Using Nanoparticles to Detect, Treat and Protect from Skin Cancer\n

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\nYoung scientists take on the role of biomedical engineers as they accept the challenge of using nanoparticles to help detect, treat, and protect people from skin cancer. Researchers perform hands-on activities to become familiar with the...\n
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\nKindergarten Writing Rubrics\n

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\nHere is a set of three kindergarten writing rubrics designed to meet the Common Core writing standards for opinion, informative, and narrative writing pieces. They each include four levels of performance—beginning, developing,...\n
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\nRevision Techniques for Writing\n

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\nHow can you help your class improve their writing? Start by showing a student example on the overhead. Read through the paragraph in a think-aloud format, commenting on areas that need improvement. Then, as a class, work together to make...\n
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\nVaried Beginnings: Research Process / Narrative Writing Techniques\n

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\nWhat's the best way to start a story? Learners write a memoir using effective openings. They research the process and work through a list of hooks to use in their writing. They use at least two hooks to begin their personal memoir. A...\n
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\nCharacterizations: Indirect and Direct\n

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\nConnect literature to narrative writing by researching descriptive writing techniques. Elementary and middle schoolers identify the importance of a narrator and voice in the storytelling process. They read writing samples and identify...\n
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\nReviewing Proper Writing Techniques\n

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\nStudents use proper writing techniques to write an effective description of the best or worst meal they have ever eaten.  In this proper writing techniques lesson plan, students review the parts of a composition and discuss was to...\n
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\nUsing Details from Text to Identify Author's Purpose\n

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\nExplore writing techniques by analyzing newspapers and magazines with middle schoolers. They will collaborate in small groups to read local news stories and identify the main ideas and author's intent. They also utilize an information...\n
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\nWriting to Persuade\n

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\nMiddle schoolers discover effective writing techniques to create persuasive essays. For this writing lesson, students investigate ways to express facts and points of view through persuasive essays. Finally, the middle schoolers write...\n
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\nRevision Race\n

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\nSometimes it's hard to get your English language learners speaking in a natural manner. Print out this board game to provide learners with several opportunities to speak. Everyone gets a chance to participate in this game! \n
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\nAnansi: A Language Arts Twist to the Trickster\n

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\nStudents read African folk tales to learn about story elements and writing techniques. In this writing and reading skills lesson, students listen and retell African folk tales about Anansi the spider. Students complete four lessons to...\n
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\nWriting Example Paragraphs\n

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\nSixth graders explore language arts by writing basic paragraphs. In this writing techniques lesson plan, 6th graders define an \"example\" paragraph and discuss techniques to prove a point in one paragraph. Students practice writing their...\n
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\nSubjects and Predicates\n

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\nSixth graders explore writing techniques by reviewing sample sentences. In this writing subject instructional activity, 6th graders examine a list of sentences in which they identify both the subject and predicate. Students complete a...\n
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\nDeepening our Understanding and Topic Selection\n

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\nStudents explore writing techniques by reading a children's book with their classmates. For this topic selection lesson, students read the story Pancakes for Breakfast and identify the themes and topic by completing an anchor chart....\n
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\nHarmony and Expression in Writing Form\n

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\nHow do you write an interesting beginning, middle, and end of a story? With this lesson, young writers look to other stories as examples. Then, they use some of the attached graphic organizers to help them create their own story. Note:...\n
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\nGetting Started: Pre-Writing Techniques\n

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\nPre-writing activities are covered to help your middle schoolers examine topics and personal experiences. Your class will discover how to choose topics which create a strong piece of writing and incorporate personal knowledge.\n
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\nHow to Write an Essay Introduction\n

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\nClichéd and repetitive introductions got you down? Try this lesson on for size! Start off by instructing your class members on techniques for writing introductions and what types of introductions they should avoid. Several general lesson...\n
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\nCounting Sentences' Words\n

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\nExplore language arts by completing a worksheet with class. They read the story Owl Moon and discuss the rhythm of the writing and how action verbs are used appropriately. Then complete a writing worksheet which discusses writing...\n
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\nWriting Technique Foreshadowing/ Home Child\n

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\nExamine foreshadowing with your emerging writers. First, define the technique, and then search the first three chapters of Barbara Haworth-Attard's Home Child for examples. \n
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\nAuthor's Purpose: Research Process/Narrative Writing Techniques\n

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\nDetermine the author's purpose in writing a memoir. Eighth graders work in groups  to elicit author's purpose in memoirs, taking care to note how subtle the message can be hidden throughout the work. This instructional activity is a...\n
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\nFranklin D. Roosevelt\n

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\nDiscuss the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This story, called \"Franklin D. Roosevelt\" by Laura Hamilton Waxman, is used to explore comprehension skills. Some of these skills include identifying prefixes and suffixes, making comparisons,...\n
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\nMaking Judgments Practice\n

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\nEncourage young learners to identify persuasive writing techniques in a text with this resource, which includes two multiple-choice worksheets with advertisements for students to analyze.\n
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\nPutting It Together in Writer's Workshop\n

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\nThis lesson about writing can be taught in small groups or large group settings. They examine basic writing techniques and practice using them to improve their writing.\n
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\nPhotographic Memories\n

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\nExplore how photographs can represent a whole story to a viewer. Middle schoolers work on narrative writing techniques in this lesson plan, focusing on photographs from the New York Times to write first-person descriptive...\n
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\nLyddie: An Instructional Unit Resource Guide\n

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\nKatherine Paterson’s young adult novel Lyddie is the foundation of a differentiated instruction unit that not only explores the rise of industrialization and labor but women’s rights issues as well. After learners read the novel, they...\n
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