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Download full textGardner, Traci – 2003
The writing program described in this lesson plan asks students to look closely at their writing, marking speaking parts, and then to return to the beginning to find any places where the "characters clash." During the one 50-minute lesson, students will: explore paragraphing conventions for dialogue; examine their own writing closely…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Literary), Editing, Lesson Plans, Middle Schools
Kimbro, Michelle – 2003
Description can make a piece of writing come alive. This lesson plan combines art and word play, emphasizing writing for an audience while drawing on multiple intelligences. Peer review and feedback reinforces the revision process as students create trading cards by drawing pictures of monsters and describing and categorizing them in detail.…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Creativity, Editing, Educational Objectives
Wetzel, Keith; Best, Anita, Ed. – 1992
Providing a way to organize and document third- through sixth-grade student writing through the use of writing folders and other organizing aids, this book is for educators who believe that writing and word processing strategies and skills are best taught as students do real writing for a variety of readers. The book includes mini-lessons to…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Editing, Elementary Education, Lesson Plans
Tully, Marianne – 1996
Noting that revising is the hardest part of the writing process for children, this book offers practical strategies to effectively motivate students and to help them build the skills to revise their own work. The book suggests that children in grades 2 and above can handle revision if they are taught the skills that enable them to do it and if…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Editing, Elementary Education
Burenstein, Ben – 1995
Produced by a demonstration project that explored the use of speech synthesis and speech recognition in writing-based classes held by two Philadelphia literacy providers, this manual was developed for teachers who may wish to integrate speech synthesis into their curriculum. It contains a description of the technologies and activities that may be…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation, Computer Software
Davidson, Neil, Ed.; Worsham, Toni, Ed. – 1992
This collection of papers provides a theoretical foundation on current practice in cooperative thinking. The papers offer many practical methods that can be applied to a full range of classroom settings. After an introduction, "HOTSICLE: Higher Order Thinking Skills in Cooperative Learning Environments" (Neil Davidson and Toni Worsham),…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking
