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Teaching Writing with Technology

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Research Building Blocks: “Organize This!”

Write in the Middle: Program 1 - Creating a Community of Writers

Workshop 1 explores the components of a community of writers and what teachers can do to create and foster such a community. http://www.learner.org/workshops/middlewriting/prog1.html

The Garden of Phrases

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm Absolute Phrases || Appositive Phrases || Gerund Phrases || Infinitive Phrases || Noun Phrases || Participial Phrases || Prepositional Phrases A phrase is a group of related words that does not include a subject and verb. (If the group of related words does contain a subject and verb, it is considered a clause .)
Thank you for using the Grammar Handbook at the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This Handbook explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of usage. http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/

Grammar Handbook « Writers Workshop: Writer Resources « The Center for Writing Studies, Illinois

Teenagers’ lives are filled with writing.

Summary of Findings

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2008/Writing-Technology-and-Teens/01-Summary-of-Findings.aspx

Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Writing Re-Launched: Teaching with Digital Tools

https://www.diigo.com/annotated/d1f7c8fa923d88513f215c07b02fa042 Published Online: April 4, 2011 Published in Print: April 4, 2011, as Writing Re-Launched: Teaching with Digital Tools Second grader Daisy Mora Gomez uses an iPad application called "Puppet Pals" to work on her pre-writing skills. —Manny Crisotomo Innovative language arts teachers find that adapting writing instruction to technology can enhance engagement without sacrificing the fundamentals. The nature of writing has shifted in recent years.