The Noyce Foundation's Every Child a Reader and Writer Initiative (ECRW) seeks to improve literacy achievement for students in K-5 utilizing the key strategies of system-wide professional development, classroom coaching and assessment of student work. ECRW began in 2000 and focuses primarily on the teaching of writing through a writing workshop approach.
This is so cool! You type in (or paste) text and this shows a visual representation. I tried it with text from a science books and it made the info. so much more comprehensible to students. (WW)
By learning to how to use information presented in various types of nonfiction material, students will prepare to use the multitude of expository texts that readers of all ages encounter daily, including newspapers, brochures, magazines, instruction manuals, recipes, and maps. These lessons can help students understand the differences between fiction and nonfiction and develop reading fluency in this important genre.
First, writers will search for all four pieces of advice that young author, Eva, receives from her neighbors and then uses in her story found in the book Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street. Next, writers will apply the four pieces of advice as they brainstorm details about a person, place, and thing they have chosen to write about. Finally, writers will each create a descriptive paragraph that interestingly describes the person, place, and thing they have chosen.
Often, we receive student writing samples that are too long for our handbooks or that fall into a category already covered by another model. This is where we publish these additional student models.
Important Note: If you would like to see one of your models published on our Web site, why not submit it? Click on Publish It! for details.
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Shared Documents
This page allows you to download documents for teaching reading and writing that members of the our list have agreed to share. File size for each document will be provided in download dialogue box.
Curious about how complex your documents or Web pages are to read? You don't have to get a team of experts to generate your readability score: you can just use readability.info to analyze the characteristics of your writing and ascertain a multitude of readability scores. By comparing the readability score of different documents (or Web pages) you can better hone your writing and make sure that you aren't creating overly complex sentences and paragraphs for your audience.
writing genres
Genre is a recognized category of works that share a common form, purpose or content. As a writer, it is important to understand what these commonly shared attributes are for each of the different genre.