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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 »
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- 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
- 6th - 12th
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Students write persuasively by convincing others of their point of view about music downloading. 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 - 4th
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Students work together in groups to brainstorm ideas on writing topics. After being read stories, they watch a demonstration of webbing and how to connect related ideas. They write their story and are graded based on a rubric. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students examine the writing techniques of professional authors and apply them to their own work. In pairs, they email authors to discover the tricks of the trade. Students create their own Website for their work. 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 »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
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Students write and deliver a short persuasive speech using the POAM method. They also incorporate one of the three persuasive appeals into a written speech. Students apply what they have learned about persuasion and speech presentation to create their own speeches. Full Review »
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