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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
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Students review the writing process focusing on the use of graphic organizers for use as pre-writing tools. They draft stories and edit them in small peer groups. They incorporate edits and draft a final copy. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students participate in a free write activity designed to formulate ideas and opinions on a given issue in private, on paper, and at their own pace. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students demonstrate the six traits of writing and how to evaluate their own writing. They integrate literature strategies into their own writing. Handouts to use with literature selections are included in the lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students discuss lists of interesting topics on which to write. They explore those things that interest them, excite them and express themselves freely. They organize the value of their own thoughts and use their individual lists that they compiled in the first phase when journal writing. 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 »
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- 10th
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Students demonstrate their understanding of literary elements such as plot, characterization, setting, point of view, conflicts, mood, tone and imagery by writing a narrative that includes a character from the novel set in each student's favorite place. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th
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Students answer the question Why Westborough? Why did their town develop as it did, what types of industry were here and why. They are introduced to journal writing. Students free write about ideas that stand out from class. They research Eli Whitney and write down an epitaph for his gravestone. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 11th
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Students gather, determine validity and reliability of, analyze and organize information. They employ the most effective format for purpose and audience. Students write fully developed paragraphs that have details and information specific to the topic and revelant to the focus. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students hone poetry writing skills by practicing various exercises. In short bursts of time, they free write without stopping. Students also write using particular words or phrases, writing in different colors, and underlining words they particularly like. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students practice experiencing writing with appropriate language and incorporating the eight parts of speech. They assess that many words have multiple functions when used in different contexts. Each student free writes in response to a picture or scene, identify the parts of speech in it and compose a story about the picture or scene using descriptive words and phrases. Full Review »
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