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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
For this lesson, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Learners will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Camping Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Young scholars...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Who/what/where/when Game: Wild Weather Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. Brave Irene, written by William Steig, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Students will develop sentences with...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creating a School Survival Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will create a school survival guide that follows the model of Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar. This survival guide will serve as a "how to" instructional manual for other incoming freshman...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Perfect Day With Scaredy Squirrel

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, the mentor text entitled Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt is used to get students thinking about how they spend their days. Then students will write the hour and minute hands on blank clocks and will writing complete...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Argue Better Than a Pigeon

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, the book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems is used as a mentor text. Students will learn how to evaluate the validity of a mathematical argument. Students will practice writing and revising their own...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Personified Number Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson plan, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is used as the mentor text. Students will explore numbers and the properties of these numbers. Students will then write a math story, using the explored numbers, and...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: What Is a Measure?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, Rolf Myller's book entitled How Big is a Foot? is used as a mentor text. Students will answer the question, "What does it mean to be big?"The mathematical concepts of area, attributes, and fractions are...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Smart Math and Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, the poem "Smart" from Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein, is used as the mentor text. Students will write a map of the poem and then analyze it to discover what happened when trades with money were made and...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, Pat Brisson's book Benny's Pennies is used as a mentor text. Students will discover ways to spend money that meets specific criteria. Students must explain their process for their spending choices, and then they must...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Requesting a Task Force to Prevent Child Endangerment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, Roald Dahl's book The Witches is used as a mentor text. Young scholars will attempt to save themselves and the other children. Students will analyze real population statistics from world-wide and details from the story to...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Mathematical Recipe Metaphors

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Barry Lane's books entitled Reviser's Toolbox and 51 Wacky We-Search Reports are used as mentor texts. Used as a refeference, the concept of recipe poems can be instructed to the students and the genre of "how to" books,...
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Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Using Headings to Determine the Main Idea: The Shark: Silent Hunter

For Students 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reading comprehension strategies are the focus of this ReadWorks lesson. Students will pay attention to headings, subheadings, and other text features to help them comprehend nonfiction text. Renee Le's...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Fastback Beach Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After taking a joyride with his friends and crashing the car, Miles is the one arrested. He works off his sentence through community service with a car enthusiast. After helping his mentor with his vintage car, it is stolen by Miles'...
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Website
Other

Ph ds.org: Science, Math, & Engineering Career Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interested in exploring science, math, or engineering career paths. Investigate career paths, guides, journals, mentoring, and contact information.
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Activity
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Identity Properties

For Students 3rd - 8th
The resource consists of a discussion between a mentor and two students about how to use additive and multiplicative identity and inverse properties. Examples and explanations of each are included.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Superheroes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, SuperHero ABC, a book written by Bob McLeod, and Meanwhile, a book by Jules Feiffer, are used as mentor texts. Students will work in groups and create lists of unique superhero powers that start with different letters of...
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Professional Doc
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Expository & Persuasive Texts: Writing Expository Essays

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In an expository essay, a type of informational text, the writer clarifies or explains something by using facts, details, and examples in a clear and concise way. To write an effective expository essay, students need a basic...
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Princess and the Goblin by George Mac Donald

For Students 5th - 9th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This work, The Princess and Goblin, was written by C.S. Lewis' mentor, George MacDonald, in the early 1900's.
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Article
Other

Crayons and Cuties in Kindergarten: Launching Persuasive Writing in Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A kindergarten teacher shares how she introduced persuasive writing in her classroom. After a discussion about "problems" that need to be fixed in their school, the class decided they wanted to write the principal a persuasive letter...
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Article
Other

Roots of Action: How Kids Learn to Take Initiative and Overcome Challenges

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learning to take initiative is a behavior that helps kids navigate their lives with courage and optimism. This article provides insights into how children learn to take initiative. Parents and teachers are key mentors in the process. A...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Active and Passive Verbs in Context

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Thse instructional practices use model or mentor sentences to help students learn how authors use conventions to clarify and convey meaning in their writing. These instructional practices are described in detail in Handout 14: Teaching...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pbs News Hour Student Reporting Labs Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Student Reporting Labs (SRL) creates transformative educational experiences through video journalism that inspire youth to find their voice and engage with their communities. SRL lesson plans, assignment prompts and instruction tools...
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Unit Plan
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Culture of Science: Scientists and the Scientific Community

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the human side of science. Take a look at how background and motivation can lead to different perspectives, discoveries, and progress in science.

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