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Minilesson
Keeping a Learning Log
Tips for starting and maintaining a learning log.
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Empower Students with Choice
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Performing a Stop 'n' Write
Pause and reflect on your reading or learning.
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12 Writing-to-Learn Activities
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Writing to Celebrate Women's History
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Make Way for Writers' Notebooks
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Make a Reading-Writing Connection
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Text Structures Revealed
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Of Personal Importance: How Narration Drives Meaningful Writing
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Asking Bigger and Better Questions
Teach students to form better questions.
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8 Mindful Writing Habits (and 16 Prompts!)
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Using 5 Critical Thinking Strategies
Use this video to help students think critically.
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15 Engaging Explanatory Writing Prompts
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Diary of Gaspard
For her history class, Samantha created an entry for the diary of a character from A Tale of Two Cities. She focuses on a pivotal event in his life and imagines what it must have been like for him.
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15 Awesome Persuasive Writing Prompts
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Understanding the Plot Line
Understand the plot line.
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My Interpretation of The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan’s book The Joy Luck Club explores the relationships between four Chinese American daughters and their often-misunderstood, more traditional Chinese mothers. By sharing quotations from the book, Fawn, the author of this literary analysis, intends to show how, as they grew up, the daughters came to understand, respect, and appreciate their mothers more.
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Adam’s Train of Ghosts
In this vintage essay, Abigail expresses her thoughts and feelings about the songwriter and lead singer of the band the Counting Crows, who are still making music a quarter century on. She analyzes the themes in Adam Duritz’s songs from the '90's and offers her interpretation of symbolism present in them.