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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Empowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Do your students' minds go blank when they confront a blank piece of paper? Speedwriting can help them get started with writing as well as come up with topics to write about. They can then incorporate their key ideas and phrases into a...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Discovering Similarities Between Writing and Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Contains plans for three 50-minute lessons that ask middle schoolers 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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Essay [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Power Essay, like the power paragraph, focuses on helping students understand the structure of a piece of expository writing. The "power" concept teaches students to organize their ideas according to levels of specificity and to...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Peer Review: Narrative

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Excellent lesson that teaches a new and more relevant way of conducting a peer review. Through the PQP (Praise-Question-Polish) process students gain a greater understanding of how to review others' work as well as improve their own...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Process Drama in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan for using process drama in the classroom includes an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Flash Drafts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan is a workshop for writers. This idea was taken from the Ralph Fletcher book: What a Writer Needs. Students create a character, either real or fictional, and place that character in a scene in order to write about their...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Research Process: Introduction to the Research Process

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on the reliability of research sources including a video example. It also lists the learning objectives for researching.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Research Process: Source Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on how to analyze sources using the C.R.A.A.P. method, how to integrate sources into your paper, and how to synthesize information from multiple sources. It provides three videos: "Researching 101: Evaluating...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Research Process: Writing Ethically

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on academic honesty and intentional and unintentional plagiarism including definitions and tips to avoid them. It provides three videos: "West Boca High School principal accused of plagiarism," "What is academic...
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PBS

Pbs: American Masters: Lesson 2: Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan is based on the PBS episode of American Masters about Truman Capote. Students will read and analyze how Truman Capote develops characters as they record their findings on worksheets included with this lesson. Then...

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