Genres...Narrative & Memoir. Our Narrative Workshop's Focus Trait: Idea Development Our Narrative Workshop's Support Traits: Word Choice and Voice In our NNWP workshops, our Northern Nevada participants receive a complimentary copy of the NNWP's print publication, The Going Deep with 6 Trait Language Guide. This 198-page resource is valued tool in Northern Nevada.
Teachers not able to attend our workshops can purchase their own copy of this guide through the NNWP's website; all proceeds from the sale fund the WritingFix website. The best lessons focus more on the writing process than the writing product. While it's important to look at narrative writing as a "product" for inclusion in student portfolios, the more important thing to think about when designing narrative lessons is the skill-set your students will gain from going through the writing process.
When we talk about skills in Northern Nevada, we start talking about the six writing traits. We also believe in differentiated instruction at WritingFix. Video Interviews with Top Children's Authors and Illustrators. Tom March :: Thesis Builder - Topic-O-Rama. Welcome! This Website offers an ideal pool of 50 prompts to help you brainstorm a topic you're interested in. Topics for essays are often controversial and sometimes hotly debated so look for one that excites your opinions. Instructions Click on the "Topic-O-Rama" button below to jump through 50 ideas.
Or else you can click the arrows to move through the ideas in order. When one of the ideas creates sparks: drag across it from the menubar, do an Edit - Copy or Right-Mouse Click > Copyclick the mouse/cursor in the text field below called Your Idea Listthen do Edit - Paste from the menubar or Right-Mouse click. Note: You can also use the text field to write down your own ideas as they come to you. When you've looked at enough ideas and feel confident that you have a good topic for a persuasive essay, click the "I'll Take my Ideas Now, Please" button.
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For this lesson's notebook page, after we explore Pat Benatar's metaphor in her song "Love is Battlefield," my students create original and interesting metaphors for the topic of love in their writer's notebooks; on a notebook page, each metaphor is established and extended upon with two details. Once students have practiced extending original love metaphors, they are asked to create new metaphors over the month that are more appropriate to their other core content areas: math, science, and social studies. Once a week in Language Arts class, students polish a new metaphor they have created outside of English class, then publish and illustrate it on a designated page in their writer's notebook. After the two-page notebook spread is complete, students can be reminded/prompted to use more metaphors during writing or during processing in the future. In 2012, I added a poetry extension lesson, which you can find below in the write-up.
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