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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.
David Vega

Writing Practice Worksheets - 0 views

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    From the Ready Theory people, this site has plenty of pdf's on parts of speech, paragraph correction, and writing practice.
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

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

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

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

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

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.
David Vega

Reading/Writing Center Resources from Hunter College - 0 views

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    Includes excellent handouts and worksheets for editing, revising, grammar, etc. We can use some of these for assessments via Quia.
Leah Wilcox

4-Step Refutation Writing - 0 views

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    This website breaks down refutation writing to four steps (Restate, refute, support, conclude)
Leah Wilcox

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.
Toshia Brodbeck

Blogging in the 21st-Century Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Blogging ideas for the 21st century. Get students to write for multiple purposes
Toshia Brodbeck

Solutions for the Secondary Classroom - 0 views

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    Ideas for the high school English classroom. Novels, grammar, writing, and reading skills.
Leah Wilcox

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/showcase/henry1e/assets/WFL_P_to_E_2e_ch09.pdf - 4 views

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    Pearson chapter with exercises
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    This PDF shows how to compare and contrast. It emphasizes "What's the point?!" It also helps students write a paragraph step by step.
David Vega

Waukesha West High School - 0 views

  • Analytic Writing Assessment - 5-point scale for each trait. Pulls out the key words for each trait, easily fitting on 1 page
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      We can adapt this one easily into a quick, usable rubric.
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    This is a collection of 6 Traits rubrics we might be able to adapt for our needs.
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

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.
David Vega

Comparison%20and%20Contrast%20Essay/Comparison%20and%20Contrast%20Essay%20FINAL.pdf - 0 views

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    Comprehensive lesson on comparison contrast writing
David Vega

Practice Scrambled Paragraphs: Daniel Gauss: SEVEN Excellent Scrambled Paragraph Practi... - 0 views

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    This is a collection of paragraphs that have been scrambled. We can use these for assessments on "Reordering" information to improve coherence. Apparently this skill is part of an entrance exam to exclusive schools in New York.
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