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Summer Reading Recommendations for Writing Teachers
Blog Post
Recipe for a Great Writing Classroom
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How to Find Open-Education Resources
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Teaching Students to Read as Writers
Minilesson
Choosing the Right Coordinating Conjunction
Learn how to choose precise connecting words.
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Minilesson
Elaborating Ideas with Compound Sentences
Learn how to add new details to sentences.
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Blog Post
3 Ways to Teach Conjunctions
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Why Project-Based Learning Motivates Students
21st Century Skills:
Project-Based Learning
Collaborating
Problem Solving
Productivity
Blog Post
How to Nurture a Writing Mindset
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ELA Planning Help! Right Now! For Free!
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Teaching the Whole Child (in a Fragmented World)
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Developing Social-Emotional Skills Through Literature
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Connecting Writing with Media Literacy
English Language Arts:
Prewriting
Writing
Revising
Editing
Publishing
Writing Process
Media Literacy
21st Century Skills:
Media Literacy
Information Literacy
Researching
Blog Post
10 Reasons Why We Write #WhyIWrite
English Language Arts:
Writing
Writing Process
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15 Awesome Persuasive Writing Prompts
English Language Arts:
Writing
21st Century Skills:
Writing Project
Blog Post
How to Improve Media Literacy
21st Century Skills:
Media Literacy
Blog Post
38 Ways Students Can Create Digital Content
21st Century Skills:
Creating
Web Project
Graphing Project
Audio-Visual Project
Writing Project
Blog Post
Lessons for Combating Fake News
21st Century Skills:
Media Literacy
Information Literacy
Creating
Critical Thinking
Researching
Blog Post
How to Engage Your Students with Shared Inquiry
English Language Arts:
Writing
Writing Process
Qualities of Writing
Ideas
Structure
Conventions
21st Century Skills:
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Reading
Reading to Learn
Minilesson
Making Rhetorical Appeals
Appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos.
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Blog Post
9 Ways to Empower Reluctant Writers
Blog Post
Mapping Your Writing Process
English Language Arts:
Writing Process
Prewriting
Writing
Revising
Editing
Blog Post
Unifying Paragraphs
English Language Arts:
Writing Process
Revising
Paragraphs
Blog Post
Developing Fluent Readers
English Language Arts:
Reading
21st Century Skills:
Reading