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"Poem Generator This makes random poems. First, it randomly selects sentence patterns. Then, wherever the pattern has a number, it randomly selects a word from one of the numbered word lists. You can either choose one of the sample sets of words and sentence patterns, or you can enter your own words and sentence patterns."

Poetry Unit

Mini-lesson: improving sentences with thoughtful prepositional phrases. We have this text in the middle school library: 398.5 MAC

"Inference: Reading Ideas as Well as Words Ideally, speakers mean what they say and say what they mean. Spoken communication is not that simple. Much of what we understand-whether when listening or reading-we understand indirectly, by inference. Listening involves a complex combination of hearing words, analyzing sentence structure, and attempting to find meaning within the context of the given situation."

"Write a report for Newsround If you've got a story - send it to Newsround. Use the white box on this page, you only need to write about ten sentences, which is around 150 words. It's best to do it in this way: 1. Write it in a word-processing package first. 2. Save it. 3. Copy and paste it into this box. That way you're less likely to lose what you've written if there's a problem."

Feature Articles Unit: publishing student work

Three-Sentence Overview of this Lesson: Inspired by both William Carlos Williams and the main character in Sharon Creech's Love That Dog, the writer will create four original 16-word poems that capture interesting images. The writer will then choose a favorite 16-word poem and ask, "Why would so much depend upon that image to someone else?" The writer can then create a short story about an original character who might have written the 16-word poem.

Grade 7 Poetry Unit

You've got a new job on the Skillswise Echo. Can you make the adverts more interesting?

FANBOYS

"The canary flew out of the window. The canary was yellow."