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FAQ Page
How can students plan their projects?
21st Century Skills:
Project-Based Learning
Inquiry Process
Planning
Improving
FAQ Page
What are the keys to successful project-based programs?
21st Century Skills:
Project-Based Learning
Writing Project
Graphing Project
Web Project
Performing Project
Audio-Visual Project
Community Project
Inquiry Process
FAQ Page
How are projects and project-based learning different?
21st Century Skills:
Project-Based Learning
Inquiry Process
Learning Skills
Literacy Skills
Life Skills
FAQ Page
How can I teach 21st century skills?
21st Century Skills:
Learning Skills
Literacy Skills
Life Skills
FAQ Page
What are life skills?
21st Century Skills:
Life Skills
Flexibility
Initiative
Social Skills
Productivity
Leadership
FAQ Page
What are literacy skills?
21st Century Skills:
Literacy Skills
Succeeding in School
Studying
Reading to Learn
Building Vocabulary
Writing to Learn
Taking Tests
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
Technology Literacy
Visual Literacy
Financial Literacy
Succeeding in the Workplace
FAQ Page
What are learning skills?
21st Century Skills:
Learning Skills
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Problem Solving
Communicating
Collaborating
Building Arguments
FAQ Page
What are 21st century skills?
21st Century Skills:
Learning Skills
Literacy Skills
Life Skills
Writing Topic
If I wrote like the author of . . .
Level:
Grade 4
Grade 5
Mode:
Response to Literature
Form:
Poem
Story
Play
Fictionalized Journal Entry
Book Report
Literary Analysis
Theme:
Books
Fantasy
Entertainment
Blog Post
Beyond Compassion: Deepening Learning Through Perspective Shifting
English Language Arts:
Writing
21st Century Skills:
Critical Thinking
Problem Solving
Minilesson
Writing Descriptions That "Show" Instead of "Tell"
Teach students to use sensory details.
Blog Post
Teaching Young Writers When to Show and Tell
21st Century Skills:
Writing
Communicating
Blog Post
5 Fun Creative Writing Activities
English Language Arts:
Writing
Qualities of Writing
21st Century Skills:
Communicating
Infographic
Show or Tell
Level:
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Grade 9
Grade 10
Grade 11
Grade 12
Theme:
Education
FAQ Page
What are the standards for writing?
FAQ Page
What are the modes and forms of writing?
CCSS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.2.A
Standard Grade:
11
12
Standard Strand:
Language
CCSS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.3
Standard Grade:
11
12
Standard Strand:
Writing in History/Social Studies, Science & Technical Subjects
CCSS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.1.A
Standard Grade:
11
12
Standard Strand:
Language
CCSS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.2.B
Standard Grade:
11
12
Standard Strand:
Language
CCSS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.1
Standard Grade:
11
12
Standard Strand:
Reading in History/Social Studies
CCSS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.2
Standard Grade:
11
12
Standard Strand:
Reading in History/Social Studies
CCSS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.3
Standard Grade:
11
12
Standard Strand:
Reading in History/Social Studies
CCSS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.4
Standard Grade:
11
12
Standard Strand:
Reading in History/Social Studies