JIS English for Academic Purposes

Browse Articles by genre

This unit is intended to familiarize students with some of the basic skills required to write news articles. Students will learn about the structure of news articles, and will practice writing, editing, and critiquing news articles.

Teaching Students Feature Article Writing and Informational Reading

Great strategies for finding meaning within reading

Unlocking Reading Comprehension with Science Inquiry

Organizational Structures Common to Expository Text There is no one organizational structure reserved for expository text. Writers may employ one or a variety of organizational structures in any one piece of writing. Some of these structures include the following:

Assessment Strategies Using Reading Portfolios There are many good reasons, such as the following, for using reading portfolios: * They are an effective assessment tool. * They provide teachers with a wide variety of student work over a period of time. * They not only provide records of student growth, but also opportunities for students to monitor and be involved in their own reading development. * They help students collect, select, inspect, and reflect on their own reading, thus giving them self-assessment skills.

Discussion protocols for learning together from and through texts

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.

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.

Fantastic Resource for teaching through genre

Exercise to use with your smartboard to teach/practice paragraphing and topic sentence identification

Writing across the curriculum in science

Unit 5 (10 weeks) Research Projects (Independent Inquiry based on Nonfiction Matters)

Unit 4 (5 weeks) Nonfiction Writer's Notebooks, Investigations, and Inquiry