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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Analyze and Infer Causes & Effects [Pdf]
This graphic organizer will help students analyze and infer cause-effect relationships. Students will use the graphic organizer to guide them as they determine several causes for one effect. Then students will write to explain the...
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Read Write Think: Integrating Language Arts: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This instructional activity integrates reading, writing, listening, and speaking to boost students' comprehension skills. Students explore Laura Joffe Numeroff 's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie using a variety of techniques, beginning with...
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Pbs Learning Media: Walmart Middle School Litercy Initiative
Interactive, student-paced lessons on such literacy skills as categorizing, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, evaluating, determining cause and effect, using text features, connecting, inferring, sequencing, understanding problems...
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Eight slides introducing different types of transition words including similarity, contrast, addition, illustration, and cause and effect words.
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Kim's Korner: Patterns of Organization
Here is a run-down of several basic patterns of organization to use when writing. An example is given for each pattern, as well as an explanation.
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Prezi: Nonfiction Text Structures
Slideshow examines the five most common text structures used by authors to organize nonfiction writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Organizing Your Paper
Two slideshows and a screencast on organizational patterns used when writing essays and speeches. The first is a 20-slide presentation explaining the seven most common organizational patterns used in writing: time sequence, spatial,...
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Allergy Glossary: Decongestant
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