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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students define "nonfiction" and describe what they view as the best pieces of nonfiction writing. They determine criteria to evaluate whether or not a piece of nonfiction writing is good, and list categories of nonfiction writing. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th
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Students improve oral communication skills through small group activities whereby they discuss specific aspects of the essay sample, then write a skeleton essay with their group on the literary work in study. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students use studenT picture books to identify and model components of narrative writing Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students experience a dress rehearsal of timed demand writing. This lesson allows students to prepare for a timed writing test in which they don't know the prompt. This lesson includes writing prompts and rubrics imbedded in the plan. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students are introduced to the narrative, descriptive and expository forms of writing. In groups, they discuss the personality of the author while graphing the characteristics after reading different examples from the same writer. To end the lesson, they write their own paper using their peers as peer editors. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 12th
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Students engage in a ten-month long elective course focusing on college board review and an advanced writing workshop. Both course components focus on thinking and reasoning skills. Various approaches include sentence combining, which emphasizes linguistics and sentence structure, and the theory of the world approach which states students need a world view in order to write effectively. The course also includes choosing genres for writing projects. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students read and discuss articles from a recent newspaper editorial page. The work in small groups to analyze individual articles and then write a letter to the editor to express their opinions in response to the article. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students practice communication skills, writing techniques, and research techniques in this Language Arts lesson about writing in teams. The lesson includes suggested activities, objectives, resources, and a self-assessment sheet for post-assessment. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students comprehend and identify the techniques used by authors with descriptive writing. They identify parts of speech in descriptions. Students identify figures of speech in descriptions: similes, metaphors, and personifications. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students read through articles and work as a class to identify the techniques used by the author to develop a descriptive writing. Students then work independently identifying parts of speech and figures of speech in descriptions. Full Review »
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