200 Prompts for Argumentative Writing - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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Leah Wilcox on 08 Apr 15We need to think of some new essay topics for 9th grade comp. courses. This lists 200 prompts that are relevant to students today.
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Working with Beginning Writers - National Writing Project - 0 views
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This source discusses the importance of teacher modelling when we teach writing to students. The idea is to get them to see beyond their original draft and understand that they have more to say after their initial thoughts
Sadlier-Oxford :: Professional Development - Teaching Meaningful Revision: Developing a... - 0 views
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This source looks at how to have a discussion about revision with students to help them discover what inhibits their ability to revise. It goes on to discuss peer editing/revising and gives helpful tips for student-teacher writing conferences.
http://www.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/e01396/introandchapter1.pdf - 0 views
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This is a great PDF which distinguishes argument writing from persuasive writing and explains the terms students need to be familiar with. It also discusses ideas on how to teach the elements of argument and explains the importance of clear feedback.
http://rpdp.net/files/ccss/ELA/ELA_9-10_Curr_Res/Writing%209-10/Writing%20Standard%201%... - 0 views
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"Convince Me" PDF gives excellent introductory lesson ideas for argument aligned to common core standards.
Common Core: Teaching Argument & Informational Paragraph Writing | Catlin Tucker, Honor... - 0 views
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This website describes how one teachers uses a blended learning approach to teach paragraph writing. This could be a useful model for our 9th grade composition course.
Glossing: How to Help Your Composition Students Think and Write About Revising (Guest B... - 0 views
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This technique (Glossing) helps students see revision in papers. I want to look at this more closely -It may be a promising technique to try with 9th grade.
Teacher Comments in the Revision Process - National Writing Project - 1 views
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This links to a PDF about making teacher comments that students can actually use for revision.
Eating Bugs! Developing Arguments and Finding Supporting Evidence | BetterLesson - 0 views
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I think some of these teaching ideas would be interesting to get my students involved in thinking about argument. I could model a paper about eating bugs.
Critical Reading of an Essay's Argument - 0 views
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This article discusses the differences between reading for information and reading critically. It also breaks down the steps to reading critically and discusses synoptic and post-reading. These various types of reading work to help students better understand information.
Comparison Contrast: Using Conjunctions to Show Relationship - 0 views
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This is an excellent packet on coordinating and subordinating conjunctions used to compare and contrast. It also has a section on using present and past tense verbs to compare and contrast events in time.
ProQuest K-12 - iThink Interactive Research Tutor - 0 views
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This would be an excellent introductory tutorial for the research unit. Covers picking and focusing a topic, detecting bias, evaluating sources, drawing conclusions, supporting evidence, applying knowledge, and appealing to target audience.
Homework Center: Writing Skills: Revising your first draft | FactMonster.com - 0 views
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Revising for relevance/unity
The Best Way to Teach Good Writing Is One Step at a Time - National Writing Project - 1 views
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National Writing Project Site- Start with a student's original draft and shows different steps of the revision process. Mostly prose writing.
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