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- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students experiment with the pre-writing technique of a time-line to gather writing ideas. Using their own lives, students explore how to brainstorm and organize to begin the creative writing process. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students practice brainstorming ideas about different topics. They discover how to come to a consensus about a given situation, by evaluting their brainstorming ideas. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students identify the main elements/structure of a letter to the editor. They brainstorm for thoughts and opinions on a specific topic and write a first draft of a letter to an editor of a newspaper. They give each other preliminary feedback. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students write a letter to someone who is deserving of thanks. Peer and self-editing takes place. After the writing process is completed and a copy is made for the portfolio, envelopes are distributed, addressed, sealed, and mailed. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 12th
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Students create a collection folder for inspiring quotations found when reading. They title the folder "People Say the Greatest Things" and as they find inspiring quotations, they write them down and include them. They use them for writing ideas. Full Review »
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- 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
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Students practice using reading and discussions to get ideas for writing. They discuss where they find ideas for things that they write. The teacher writes the topic, such as "My Favorite Job Around the House,". Students are told that in order to write about this, they must first discuss it. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
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Students write technical specifications by drafting a set of guidelines for following the hidden rules that govern social interaction in school. They discuss ideas for writing with their classmates. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students generate ideas for writing creative fiction stories by visualizing and drawing pictures. They use computer software: "My Own Story", to write their stories to correspond with the pictures they have drawn. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - Higher Ed
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Students brainstorm ideas for a teacher selected writing topic. They demonstrate seven steps for writing an academic essay. They jot down words or phrases using different colored pens. They write a thesis statement and create an outline supporting their thesis. Full Review »
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