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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Wendy Windust

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Cool Text: Logo and Graphics Generator - 0 views

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    Option for EAP students creating headers for blogs
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The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator - Create your own fun newspaper - fodey.com - 0 views

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    This would be a fun activity for writing feature articles! Fun with any kind of writing, really. . .
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Every Child a Reader and Writer - 0 views

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    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.
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WritingFix: Writing about Reading...Summarizing (instead of Plagiarizing) - 0 views

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    Teaching Summarization
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WordSift - Visualize Text - 0 views

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    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)
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Nonfiction Genre Study | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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    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.
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6-Trait Writing Lesson that uses Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street by Roni Schotter - 1 views

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    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.
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Ohio Resource Center > AdLIT > Reading Strategies - 0 views

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    Reading Strategies online: great resource
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Write Source - Student Models - 0 views

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    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. Click on the titles below to see the student models.
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Mosaic Listserve Tools - 0 views

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    Resources and Materials Available on Our Site * Assessment * Lesson Plans * Parents * Writing * Other * Photographs * Staff Development * PowerPoint Presentations * Worksheet / Reporting Forms, etc.
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Literacy Workshop Shared Documents - 0 views

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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.
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Genre_Project_197249_7.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    Fantastic Resource for teaching through genre
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Paragraphs - 0 views

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    Exercise to use with your smartboard to teach/practice paragraphing and topic sentence identification
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Readability.info: Readability Scores, Grades, Sentences, Paragraphs, Word Usage, Englis... - 0 views

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    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.
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Writing Genres - 0 views

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    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.
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Featured Articles: Vol 2, Num 3 on Writing Across the Curriculum in Science - 0 views

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    Writing across the curriculum in science
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