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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.
Leah Wilcox

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.
Leah Wilcox

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.
Leah Wilcox

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
Leah Wilcox

Teaching Composition - 0 views

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    This site has several writing prompt ideas. It also discusses the modes of writing and gives two example papers
Leah Wilcox

Review and Revision | GSI Teaching & Resource Center - 0 views

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    This site offers ideas for how to introduce composition to students. It also links to a nice .pdf for peer revision.
Leah Wilcox

200 Prompts for Argumentative Writing - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    We need to think of some new essay topics for 9th grade comp. courses. This lists 200 prompts that are relevant to students today.
Leah Wilcox

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.
Leah Wilcox

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.
Leah Wilcox

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.
Leah Wilcox

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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