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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Three Voice Important Book Passages

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A lesson plan made for young scholars to write from various perspectives regarding the same topic. The mentor text entitled The Important Book is used, as students become more familiar with voice, point of view, persuasive techniques and...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Write Talks: Students Discover Real Writers/audiences/purposes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Discovering Similarities Between Writing and Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Contains plans for three 50-minute lessons that ask young scholars to use the writing process to write about a piece of visual art. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites...
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Website
Other

English Companion: Reading Expository Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Taken from "Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techmiques," the information on this website provides advice on how to read, understand, analyze, and write expository texts.
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Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Judy Blume's Biography

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover more about the life and work of Judy Blume with this resource. Students and teachers will gain a different perspective of this author after exploring this resource.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Critical Reading: Logic and Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on structure and logic including types and purposes of essays, organizational patterns, argumentative writing, and logic and fallacies.
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eBook
University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh: Mythology Electronic Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a handy site from the University of Pittsburgh for making comparisons in the folklore of different cultures. It is organized by themes. For instance, you could scroll down to the theme "Man and Serpent," click on that and read...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: I Know Why I Like Pie

For Teachers K - 1st
Active, imaginative teaching with nursery rhymes takes advantage of how the brain learns best! In this instructional activity, learners will use a Venn Diagram to compare "Little Jack Horner" to "Sing a Song of Sixpence"
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: The Grapes of Wrath

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A Library of Congress lesson on "The Grapes of Wrath," through which students discover how cultural artifacts from the book support its themes and see connections "between the social, cultural, and literary contexts of literature."
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Website
Other

Kim's Korner: Patterns of Organization

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Here is a run-down of several basic patterns of organization to use when writing. An example is given for each pattern, as well as an explanation.

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