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WritingFix Projects: The "Mentor Text of the Year" Network - 13 views

writingfix.com/...mentor_text_of_the_year.htm

6-traits mentor text

shared by Dennis OConnor on 20 Dec 09 - Cached

Mentor texts are published works that can be used to inspire or guide writers during well-crafted writing lessons. When introduced thoughtfully during instruction, a mentor text motivates students to want to write something like a published writer.
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Dennis OConnor on 20 Dec 09

Mentor Texts: Another great idea from Writing Fix.

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Praising, Questioning, Wishing: An Approach to Responding to Writing - National Writing... - 12 views

www.nwp.org/...2868

writing nwp 6-traits

shared by Dennis OConnor on 20 Dec 09 - Cached

Summary: Responding to another's writing is always a challenging task. As a member of the E-Team behind NWP's E-Anthology, Brian Slusher discovered an effective response strategy: Praise, Question, and Wish.
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Directory of Writing and Grammar Resources - 20 views

www.refseek.com/...writing_grammar.html

grammar writing resources tech_tools web tools

shared by Clifford Baker on 03 Jan 10 - Cached

Clifford Baker on 03 Jan 10

Links to writing and grammar resources

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Video: Profiles of Generation M(2) - Kaiser Family Foundation - 5 views

www.kff.org/...hr012010video.cfm

shared by Teresa Ilgunas on 22 Jan 10 - Cached

gladwell dot com - cocksure - 12 views

www.gladwell.com/...2009_08_10_a_courthouse.html

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andrew bendelow on 23 Jan 10

TKAM supplement; Kinda throws a rock in the church of St. Atticus; my soph's can probably read at this level

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Online teaching resources - 6 views

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Teacher Resources

shared by Karen LaBonte on 04 Feb 10 - Cached

Karen LaBonte on 04 Feb 10

Scroll down-- lots of great stuff here!

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Teens @ Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 5 views

www.carnegielibrary.org/...books

books reviews lists reading

shared by Meredith Stewart on 16 Jan 10 - Cached

Meredith Stewart on 16 Jan 10

Great book lists and reviews

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A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods - 14 views

www.visual-literacy.org/...periodic_table.html

visualization tools design table

shared by Meredith Stewart on 28 Jan 10 - Cached

Karen LaBonte on 28 Jan 10

Seems like an important concept to add to a lesson/unit on taking notes

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Best of TED Talks - 6 views

www.learnoutloud.com/...best_of_ted_tal.html

TED audio video

shared by Karen LaBonte on 19 Jan 10 - Cached

Karen LaBonte on 19 Jan 10

LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning.\nBrowse over 20,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos.\n\n

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activate: The Journal of Technology-Rich Learning - 8 views

eduscapes.com/...index.html

technology techintegration

shared by Jodie Smith on 25 Jan 10 - Cached

Search Engine's YouTube channel launches: Does the Internet make you dumber? Boing Boing - 4 views

www.boingboing.net/...search-engines-youtu.html

education web2.0 technology learning

shared by Mary Worrell on 14 Jan 10 - Cached

Mary Worrell on 14 Jan 10

This video is funny and does a good job of questioning why we care about rote memorization. Why isn't it good enough just to go and look up information? Why must we scold ourselves if we don't have it memorized? Has some great applications to educational debate today and where technology fits.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This video is funny and does a good job of questioning why we care about rote memorization. Why isn't it good enough just to go and look up information? Why must we scold ourselves if we don't have it memorized? Has some great applications to educational debate today and where technology fits.</div>

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Book Review Bingo: More book review cliche fun than you can shake a riveting, unputdown... - 7 views

www.examiner.com/our-Sunday-book-review-reading

review bingo education books literature

shared by Dana Huff on 20 Mar 10 - Cached

Dana Huff on 20 Mar 10

This game would be good for teaching cliches.

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Education Week: The Core Standards for Writing: Another Failure of Imagination? - 9 views

www.edweek.org/...20schuster.h29.html

education writing standards common_core

shared by The0d0re Shatagin on 21 Mar 10 - Cached

The0d0re Shatagin on 21 Mar 10

Education Week Commentary on Common Core Standards on Writing

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Exploring Genres - 12 views

www.msu.edu/...level1.htm

shared by Todd Finley on 28 Mar 10 - No Cached

- Todd Finley on 28 Mar 10
  
  This is one of the best MGRP resources on the web.
  
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Folktexts: A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology, page 1 - 10 views

www.pitt.edu/folktexts.html

folktales

shared by Meredith Stewart on 05 Apr 10 - Cached

Generation B - Father and Daughter Bond by Years of Reading - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...21GenB.html

reading literature literacy

shared by Dana Huff on 29 Mar 10 - Cached

Dana Huff on 29 Mar 10

This father and daughter made reading together at night a mission.

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National Day of Unplugging Was a Huge Success « Sabbath Manifesto - 3 views

www.sabbathmanifesto.org/unplug

sabbath sabbath manifesto unplug

shared by Karen LaBonte on 04 Apr 10 - Cached

Carol Dweck's Attitude-The Chronicle of Higher Education - 14 views

chronicle.com/...65405

dweck pedagogy praise students

shared by Meredith Stewart on 11 May 10 - Cached

Secrets of Teaching Writing Revealed - 23 views

www.you-can-teach-writing.com

teaching writing writing

shared by Karen LaBonte on 14 Jan 11 - Cached

Karen LaBonte on 14 Jan 11

resources & strategies for teaching expository writing in middle school and beyond

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Things I Know 31 of 365: Silliness is golden - 12 views

autodizactic.com/blog

smile silly

shared by Meredith Stewart on 31 Jan 11 - No Cached

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