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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: For Writer's Notebook: Heart Maps and Writing Topics

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
A heart map is a visual representation of a student's heart, displaying topics that "live" there; these topics are ones the student would show passion about and interest towards when writing about them. In writer's workshop students...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: American Explorers [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
"American Explorers" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They traveled from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean with the help of Native Americans and made maps along the way. It is followed by...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.
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Katelyn Pointek: One Word Writing Prompts

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
This site offers a list of one word writing prompts perfect for free writing activities which can be used as quick write or developed into stories. With one word story prompts, you start with the word provided and use either one sentence...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Developing Characters and Settings

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
In this activity provided by SMART, students will give reasons why they feel characters are important in a story. Students will explore how to create effective characters and settings in their own writing by using a character web.

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