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We engage in negotiations all day long: convincing ourselves to eat that healthy cereal instead of that frosted donut, assuring our teenage daughter that her shirt was not shrunk in the dryer and that, yes, it looks fine; convincing our six year-old that she still remembers how to tie her own shoes since yesterday and doesn't need help; imploring the stranger in the car at the intersection to let us cut in; assuring a parent via email that yes, we do know what we're doing; guaranteeing an administrator that a professional release day will, in fact, improve our teaching practice, and convincing students that their best efforts will produce better results. Persuasion is a life skill. At the same time, however, it is too often taught and tested as a formalized, discrete, and isolated exercise. For that reason, students fail to realize the importance and pervasiveness of persuasion in their own lives.
Convince Me: Real-Life Uses for Persuasive Writing
As always, The Teacher's Corner is looking for ways to make your life easier. We hope that our newest addition, “Daily Writing Prompts,” does just that. On as many days as possible, we have selected an event from our monthly event calendars to be the focus of the writing prompt. These writing prompts can be used in a number of ways: Daily warm-up activity Practice in prompt writing for state assessments Daily/weekly writing prompt “Anytime” activity Student work center “When You’re Done” activity Substitute teacher activity One added advantage to TTC’s “Daily Writing Prompt” is that they can easily be displayed through an LCD projector in your classroom.
Daily Writing Prompts
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The Essential Guides (Grade 2, 3, 4, 5) to Writing is Empowering Writers newest resouce that addresses all the requirements of the upcoming CCSS and STAAR testing in Texas. Click here for more details Lower Performing Schools Soar on the state test! By implementing the Empowering Writers approach, 18 of the lowest performing schools in Houston ISD's East Region improved an average of +11.3% on state test. Read the case study for more information.
English Go back to Site of the Week archive index Writing Fix (http://writingfix.com/index.htm) Writing Fix has hundreds of high-quality writing lessons created by Nevada Educators. You will read thousands of student writing samples submitted by teachers, a Journal Prompt Generator with 570 topics, Picture Book Lessons Grades 3-12 created using a $25,000 grant, writing prompts for right and left brain, narrative, persuasive, notebook, lyrics, and chapter book inspired writing lessons and teaching tips. This site is well organized and a valuable resource for all teachers grades K-12. Writing Fix was originally created as a resource for Nevada Educators completing their inservice training and has expanded to be used by thousands of educators all over the world.
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All you have to do to think more creatively and to imagine and dream is take a few minutes and let your heart respond to the question prompts below. They will encourage you to view your world differently, to see new possibilities, and make new choices. The first set of prompts are from my book, Make Beliefs: A Gift For Your Imagination .
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BoomWriter is now in close to 2,000 schools spread throughout 20 different countries, and the list continues to grow! BoomWriter caters to a broad range of learners in terms of age, background, socioeconomic status, learning style, and skill levels, and it addresses an equally broad range of skills. No matter what grade level you teach, and regardless of whether you are a classroom teacher with 30 students, a challenge coach with 100 students, or a special education teacher with 10 students, most teachers can easily identify a way for BoomWriter to be a highly beneficial part of their curriculum. Some teachers create lessons and use it during class, while others offer it as an extra credit club, or at-home assignment.
When writing your essay, keep the following suggestions in mind: Remember your purpose. Decide if your are writing to inform or persuade. Focus on immediate and direct causes (or effects.) Limit yourself to causes that are close in time and related, as opposed to remote and indirect causes, which occur later and are related indirectly. Strengthen your essay by using supporting evidence.
Teaching Writing- Approaches & Activities
Outta Ray's Head Writing
If you're wondering about what to do during the first or second week with a new class, this assignment is perfect (well almost) The whole class will start off in groups, then form pairs, and finally each student will produce a project which involves listening, writing and creative skills. I suggest that you create the groups to stop friends from interviewing each other (which is almost impossible in a small school). This is a writing program that is perfect for producing large amounts of graded work without a lot of heavy marking. At the same time, the writing program allows you to get to know each student's strengths and weaknesses, supplies an enormous amount of rough work for future polished writing and is also an excellent class management tool. I first used it in a class of 40 de-streamed Gr. 9 students in a portable (enough said about Ontario's education system).
Global rating average: {{value}} out of {{max}} 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 These sites feature interactive grammar and writing sites that are fun to use with SMARTboards. The online games and quizzes cover topics such as nouns, verbs, sentences, proofreading, capitalization, punctuation, plurals, and more. There are links to an eThemes Resource on writing prompts and to the eThemes index that leads to many more resources on grammar and writing topics. Grades Links
Grammar: Interactive Writing Activities
Are you or your students experiencing writer's block? 911 Writers Block is a cool little site that allows you to push a button for instant assistance! Need a Setting? an Ending? a way to Kill a Character?