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Learning at the Primary Pond: 3 Effective Strategies for Teaching Revising

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A literacy specialist shares three effective strategies for teaching students revising techniques. These include providing students with specific criteria and peer revision. Examples of resources used in a classroom lesson are pictured.
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This article is intendend for students who would like to write a book. The article includes 10, easy-to-follow steps.
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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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Khan Academy: Writing Tips and Techniques for Your College Essay

For Students 9th - 10th
This article gives the reader writing tips and techniques for your college essay.
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Media College: How to Write a News Story

For Students 9th - 10th
The process in writing TV news stories is analyzed in this Media College site. Writing press releases and what makes a story newsworthy are a added bonus to the viewer.
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The Purple Crayon: Writing Dazzling Dialogue

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site takes you through the process of writing dialogue in fiction, demonstrating when to omit, replace, or modify your original writing. Includes several examples and gives excellent advice for young writers. W.9-10.3b Narrative...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Writing Center: Editing and Proofreading [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a five-page PDF about editing and proofreading from The Writing Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It provides tips and strategies for editing and proofreading and links to extra resources on the subject.
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E Reading Worksheets: Narrative Essay Assignments

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A number of narrative essay assignments are provided in this discussion. Assignments are provided to help scaffold the narrative essay writing process.
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E Reading Worksheets: Narrative Essay Topics and Story Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of 101 narrative essay topics, short story ideas, and narrative writing prompts are provided on this site. Links to related narrative topics are also provided. W.11-12.3 Narratives, W.11-12.3a Narratives
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Khan Academy: Physical Processes: Electronic Structure: Electron Configurations Article

For Students 9th - 10th
Electron configurations are a simple way of writing down the locations of all of the electrons in an atom. This article describes how this works.
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Harvard University

Harvard College Writing Center: How to Do a Close Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief explanation of the tasks involved in doing a close reading in preparation for writing. This writer breaks the process into three steps which involve annotating the text, looking for patterns, and asking questions of the text.
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Science Fiction Writer: Robert J. Sawyer: "On Writing": Word Processing Tricks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer shares his word processing tricks and tools for proofreading and editing a manuscript. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.6 Use technology to produce and publish writing
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Harold D. Underdown

The Purple Crayon: The Writing & Publishing Process

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow Amy Timberlake's steps as she tells about how she wrote the picture book "The Dirty Cowboy." She discusses ideas, drafts, revisions, and publication, and gives helpful hints to aspiring writers along the way.
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Lumen: Research Process: Conclusion to Research Process

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on the real purpose of research, to learn about the subject of the investigation as much as possible and then form those theories, opinions, and arguments on the basis of this newly found knowledge and understanding...
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Nielsen Norman Group: Low Literacy Users: Writing for a Broad Consumer Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An article describing what lower-literacy is and the characteristics and differences between them and higher-literacy users. There is also a section on improving usability for lower-literacy users especially pertaining to the internet.
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Multimedia Schools: Moving Every Child Ahead the Big6

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article looks at applying the Big6 process to issues raised by No Child Left Behind legislation. The goal of the Big6 process is to improve performance by improving thinking through application of information technology skills. This...
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Khan Academy: Subordination and Coordination Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on subordination and coordination including, process of linking clauses with punctuation and conjunctions, types of conjunctions, dependent and independent clauses.
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Computers for Creativity: Building With Code

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Using the Khan Academy Computer Science platform, sixth graders at Los Altos School District build using code. They create art by writing programs in a JavaScript implementation of the Processing language called Processing.js.
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Reading Rockets: Simple Things Principals Can Do to Help All Children Read Well

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Explore a list of simple things that principals can do to help all children learn to read. Come and learn more about the collaboration process with school administrators, teachers and staff.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Volcano Theories May Need Revision

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, Anna Salleh's article discusses controversial research by Professor John Tarduno which suggests new ideas toward the formation of chain volcanic islands.
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Khan Academy: Sample Essay 1 With Admissions Feedback

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article gives multiple samples of college admission essays that have been evaluated by college admissions officers.
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Arizona State University

Asu: Chicana and Chicano Space

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Create a Newsletter With I Work by Lorrie Jackson [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a nine-page PDF article on how to "Create a Newsletter with iWork" by Lorrie Jackson; iWork is Apple's wordprocessing software. It includes a description of the software and provides step-by-step instructions which include adding...
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No Train, No Gain: Scribbling With Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is provided for by No Train, No Gain. The Omaha World-Herald writing coach explains the whole notetaking process, and gives tips for successful notetaking while interviewing. Be sure to view the links at the end of the article...

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