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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Developing Ideas for Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains nine methods for developing ideas for writing, including freewriting, brainstorming, clustering/mapping, maintaining a personal journal, responding to a text, maintaining a response journal, responding to a specific assignment,...
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Developing Ideas for Writing: Brainstorming

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains brainstorming and gives a sample idea list generated from brainstorming.
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Brainstorming

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This handout describes brainstorming as " taking advantage of your natural thinking processes by gathering your brain's energies into a 'storm.'" Learn how to use brainstorming techniques to gather ideas before you begin a project or to...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Ab Cs of Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for a poetry lesson that asks learners to write poems after brainstorming metaphors and other ideas as a group. Ideas are groups by different themes, like letters of the alphabet. In addition to objectives and standards,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Showing Plots & Conflicts

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan, recommendations from Ralph Fletcher's book called Live Writing will be used as a teacher reference. Students will write introductions to three different stories in their writer's notebooks, but each type of conflict...
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Other

Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Superheroes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this instructional activity, 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...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Color Poems: Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask students to use their five senses for poetry prewriting. In addition to student objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
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Other

Write Design: Graphic Organizers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explores what graphic organizers are and why they are such valuable instructional tools. Five main types of organizers are addressed: webs, charts, trees, chains, and sketches.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Math and Language Arts Lesson: Division

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The lesson will help students develop an initial understanding of division and clarify how the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division relate to and are separate from each other. The lesson begins with a...

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