The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino English Teacher. Part I: Introduction--What inspired my argumentative response?
Infographic: Note taking. "7 Elements of a Differentiated Writing" Teacher modeling of writing is missing in most of the classrooms I observe.
I'm out to personally change that. I learned the amazing power of sharing your own writing process with students many years ago, and I haven't looked back since. In the fall of 1996, I returned to my classroom a changed teacher. The Sentence as a Miniature Narrative. Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing.
Sentences Crisp, Sassy, Stirring. Writing - other. Fifteen Writing Exercises. Writing exercises are a great way to increase your writing skills and generate new ideas.
They give you perspective and help you break free from old patterns and crutches. To grow as a writer, you need to sometimes write without the expectation of publication or worry about who will read your work. Don’t fear imperfection. That is what practice is for. Pick ten people you know and write a one-sentence description for each of them. Record five minutes of a talk radio show. Write a 500-word biography of your life. Write your obituary. Teaching Authentic Writing in a Socially Mediated World - Getting Smart by Susan Lucille Davis - common core, DigLN, engchat. Email Share June 28, 2012 - by Susan Lucille Davis 122 Email Share I need to confess. As an English/Language Arts teacher with nearly three decades of experience teaching writing in her professional backpack, I am supposed to know what I am doing. But the radical changes in the way we communicate in contemporary society have led me to dive deep into an existential crisis.
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Essay%20Rubric. Kelly Gallagher – Resources. Part of the reason my students have such a hard time reading is because they bring little prior knowledge and background to the written page.
They can decode the words, but the words remain meaningless without a foundation of knowledge. To help build my students’ prior knowledge, I assign them an "Article of the Week" every Monday morning. By the end of the school year I want them to have read 35 to 40 articles about what is going on in the world. It is not enough to simply teach my students to recognize theme in a given novel; if my students are to become literate, they must broaden their reading experiences into real-world text. Below you will find the articles I assigned* this year (2013-2014) to my students. "How Earth Got Its Tectonic Plates/On Saturn's Moon Titan, Scientists Catch Waves in Methane Lakes" by Monte Morin for the Los Angeles Times and by Amina Kahn for the Los Angeles Times, respectively "Hard Evidence: Are We Beating Cancer?
" 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing. Summary: Few sources available today offer writing teachers such succinct, practice-based help—which is one reason why 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing was the winner of the Association of Education Publishers 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award for Instructional Materials.
The National Writing Project's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing offers successful strategies contributed by experienced Writing Project teachers. Since NWP does not promote a single approach to teaching writing, readers will benefit from a variety of eclectic, classroom-tested techniques. These ideas originated as full-length articles in NWP publications (a link to the full article accompanies each idea below). Quality Rubrics / Checklist_v_Rubric. Ambiguous Words. 501 Writing Prompts. Writing /communication. Persuasive Writing. Writing project. This piece is about collecting stories and ideas from life and from the internet.
Writer Jonathan Harris, in this TED Talk explains his unique vision of how stories can be found in the artifacts left on a street corner, harvested from blogs with with bots, or captured by camera while exploring Inuit whaling camps in Barrow Alaska. The talk ends with a photo essay themed on happiness and wishes found in the Kingdom of Bhutan. Harris interviewed over a hundred folks found along the paths of Bhutan. He asked each to write one wish on a balloon. The imagery and ideas are good to think about. This man creates technology generated mind-maps that go way beyond the solo clustering we sometimes teach as idea generation. Harris is a traveler, thinker, and creator. Writing Exercises. 6 traits of writing. 6+1 Trait® Writing Assessment Lesson Plans. Submitted by NWREL Staff Name: Bad Analogies Traits: Ideas, Sentence Fluency Grade Level: Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12) Time: Two or more class periods Supplies:Examples (in pdf file) of bad and good analogies, writing materialsLesson Description: 1) This lesson should follow discussion and activities relating to literary terms. 2) Students are bound to write some bad analogies on their own, so this lesson brings them out into the open where everyone can have some fun with them. 3) Share some example of both good and bad analogies--what makes the good ones good, what makes the bad ones bad.
Have the students start by attempting to write some bad analogies--comparisons that restate/overstate the obvious, are too obscure, or too funny/odd for the reader to make the conection intended by the writer. Share these aloud and put them on notecards for display.