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1 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
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4 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
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1 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
2 | Grades 1 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
3 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing Poetry
4 | Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
5 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
1 | Grades K – 12 | Calendar Activity | September 21
Today is the International Day of Peace.
2 | Grades 1 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
3 | Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
4 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing Poetry
5 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
Lesson Plans
Analyzing and Podcasting About Images of Oscar Wilde
Students analyze images of Oscar Wilde used to publicize his 1882 American lecture tour. They then compare a caricature to another researched image, sharing this analysis in a podcast.
Student Interactives
The Compare & Contrast Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for different kinds of comparison essays.
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Students compile a playlist of 10 songs representing a literary character and explain their choices based on the book’s dialogue, plot, conflict, and resolution.
Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
After reading several poems that expand the definition of love poetry, students compose found poems based on a personal memoir—either their own or a love story of another writer.
Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
Students investigate the effects of word choice in Robert Frost’s “Choose Something Like a Star” to construct a more sophisticated understanding of speaker, subject, and tone.
This tool allows students to complete crossword puzzles on a variety of grade-appropriate topics, and also create and print their own crossword puzzles.
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Motivating Young Writers Through Write-Talks: Real Writers, Real Audiences, Real Purposes
This article describes the use of "write-talks," brief motivational talks designed to engage students in writing.
Writing Our Communities: Local Learning and Public Culture
Student engagement with community becomes the centerpiece of the book, an engagement that takes place across disciplines through projects involving history, environment, culture, and much more.
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Tisha Ortega | Teacher | Hartsburg, IL
I have been a Spanish teacher for almost 20 years, and I had always taught at large, urban schools