Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Creating a School Survival Guide
In this lesson, young scholars will create a school survival guide that follows the model of Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar. This survival guide will serve as a "how to" instructional manual for other incoming freshman...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Perfect Day With Scaredy Squirrel
In this lesson, the mentor text entitled Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt is used to get students thinking about how they spend their days. Then students will write the hour and minute hands on blank clocks and will writing complete...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Argue Better Than a Pigeon
In this activity, the book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems is used as a mentor text. Students will learn how to evaluate the validity of a mathematical argument. Students will practice writing and revising their own...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Personified Number Stories
In this lesson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is used as the mentor text. Young scholars will explore numbers and the properties of these numbers. Students will then write a math story, using the explored numbers, and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: What Is a Measure?
In this lesson, Rolf Myller's book entitled How Big is a Foot? is used as a mentor text. Students will answer the question, "What does it mean to be big?"The mathematical concepts of area, attributes, and fractions are introduced....
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Smart Math and Writing
In this lesson plan, the poem "Smart" from Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein, is used as the mentor text. Young scholars will write a map of the poem and then analyze it to discover what happened when trades with money were...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars
In this instructional activity, Pat Brisson's book Benny's Pennies is used as a mentor text. Students will discover ways to spend money that meets specific criteria. Students must explain their process for their spending choices, and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Requesting a Task Force to Prevent Child Endangerment
In this lesson, Roald Dahl's book The Witches is used as a mentor text. Students will attempt to save themselves and the other children. Students will analyze real population statistics from world-wide and details from the story to...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Mathematical Recipe Metaphors
In this lesson, Barry Lane's books entitled Reviser's Toolbox and 51 Wacky We-Search Reports are used as mentor texts. Used as a refeference, the concept of recipe poems can be instructed to the students and the genre of "how to" books,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Superheroes
In this instructional activity, SuperHero ABC, a book written by Bob McLeod, and Meanwhile, a book by Jules Feiffer, are used as mentor texts. Students will work in groups and create lists of unique superhero powers that start with...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Expository & Persuasive Texts: Writing Expository Essays
In an expository essay, a type of informational text, the writer clarifies or explains something by using facts, details, and examples in a clear and concise way. To write an effective expository essay, students need a basic...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Voice Building Poetry Lesson: Comparison & Contrast Poems
In this lesson, young scholars examine multiple mentor texts to help drive them toward the final persuasive writing assignment: comparison and contrast poems written from a parent and a child's perspective. A short story, two poems, and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: I Pod Inspired Writing Lessons: I Say to You Today I Have a Dream!
Inspired by MLK's passionate "I Have a Dream Speech," the mentor text "Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.", by Doreen Rappaport, and U2's Pride (In the Name of Love)", students will write speeches that detail...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision Lesson: Re Shaping Narrative Writing
This lesson, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book shares short...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Colorful Desert
In this lesson plan, The Colorful Desert, written by Audrey Wood, is used as a mentor text for sentence fluency. The content focus of the lesson plan is about how sentences build through a "building on" book. Students will use sentence...
Read Works
Read Works: Using Headings to Determine the Main Idea: The Shark: Silent Hunter
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reading comprehension strategies are the focus of this ReadWorks lesson. Students will pay attention to headings, subheadings, and other text features to help them comprehend nonfiction text. Renee Le's...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Identity Properties
The resource consists of a discussion between a mentor and two students about how to use additive and multiplicative identity and inverse properties. Examples and explanations of each are included.
Other
Crayons and Cuties in Kindergarten: Launching Persuasive Writing in Kindergarten
A kindergarten teacher shares how she introduced persuasive writing in her classroom. After a discussion about "problems" that need to be fixed in their school, the class decided they wanted to write the principal a persuasive letter...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Active and Passive Verbs in Context
Thse instructional practices use model or mentor sentences to help students learn how authors use conventions to clarify and convey meaning in their writing. These instructional practices are described in detail in Handout 14: Teaching...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Summarizing a State's History With a Found Poem
Students will identify the main message and story behind the song "Cold Missouri Waters," by James Keelaghan; they will use a note-taking strategy and create a "found poem." They will then apply this strategy to an article from a printed...
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SMART Technologies
Smart: The Interactive Educator Online Magazine [Pdf]
An excellent and thorough online magazine for educators, highlighting particularly the technological tools needed to help students be successful. Includes information about building online learning communities, the pros and cons of...
University of Manitoba
University of Manitoba: Exploring Occupations
The Career Centre at the University of Manitoba offers information and resources on 200 occupations, plus the admonition that "Information about the world of work is everywhere."
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Creative Math Equations
In this lesson, the mentor text called Mathematickles by Betsy Franco is used. Young scholars will use the language of mathematics to demonstrate their understanding of the topics about which they write. Older students should use humor...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Plato
Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher, who, together with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and...