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Mott-Smith, Jennifer A.; Tomas, Zuzana; Kostka, Ilka – TESOL Press, 2020
Do you think that the qualities of good writing are culture specific or universal? This Reflective Question and many others await your discussion and analysis in this revised edition of TESOL Press's best-selling "Teaching Writing," which explores different approaches to teaching writing in second language classrooms. This volume…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Instructional Design
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Hennig, Amee Jeanette; Whitworth, Brooke A.; MacPherson, Allison Huff – Science Teacher, 2020
At the Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN), an Engineering Research Center funded from 2008-2018 by the National Science Foundation, the education department worked to develop new and innovative digital resources to engage students in learning science content. One resource created, the CIAN Comic Book, focuses on educating students about…
Descriptors: Science Education, Teaching Methods, Cartoons, Astronomy
Baca, Jimmy Santiago – Teachers College Press, 2018
This curriculum-based collection of lesson plans is designed to build student confidence for articulating their unique ideas and sensibilities about the world through literary expression. For this book, Jimmy Santiago Baca, one of the foremost poets in America today, collaborates with two National Writing Project Fellows and literacy…
Descriptors: Self Expression, Intellectual Freedom, Lesson Plans, Poetry
Tomas, Z.; Kostka, I.; Mott-Smith, J. A. – TESOL International Association, 2013
The authors of "Teaching Writing" draw on their years of teaching and their knowledge of theory and research to present major concepts in teaching L2 writing. These concepts encompass how cultural differences affect the writing class, planning instruction, text-based writing, writing strategies, modeling, and responding to student…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Planning
Richards, Janet C.; Lassonde, Cynthia A. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
The 25 mini-lessons provided in this book are designed to develop students' self-regulated writing behaviors and enhance their self-perceived writing abilities. These foundational writing strategies are applicable and adaptable to all primary students: emergent, advanced, English Language Learners, and struggling writers. Following the SCAMPER…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Cues, Writing Strategies, Form Classes (Languages)
Brandvik, Mary Lou; McKnight, Katherine S. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
This unique time-saving book is packed with tested techniques and materials to assist new and experienced English teachers with virtually every phase of their job from lesson planning to effective discipline techniques. The book includes 175 easy-to-understand strategies, lessons, checklists, and forms for effective classroom management and over…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Writing Assignments, Educational Technology, Substitute Teachers
Woolley, Jill – 2002
This lesson uses the informational power of the Internet for a prewriting activity. Through various Internet sites, students gather information about the history and celebration practices associated with Veterans Day. Following the prewriting activity, students write content-rich poems that honor veterans. During the 45-minute prewriting session,…
Descriptors: Holidays, Internet, Lesson Plans, Middle Schools
Webre, Elizabeth C. – 2002
Integrating the use of a social studies text, trade books, and writing can be a daunting task for teachers in grades 5-7. A sample lesson used with senior level preservice teachers enrolled in a content area reading course is the focus of this paper. Suggestions for duplicating the lesson in a middle school setting are included. The lesson…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Lesson Plans, Middle Schools, Poetry
Hermsen, Terry – Teachers and Writers, 1994
Presents five lessons designed to use art to inspire students to write. Notes that students can gain a certain focus from art but that they can also veer toward writing shapeless, rambling stories that fail to create pictures in the reader's mind. (RS)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Elementary Secondary Education, Lesson Plans
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Mitchell, Diana; Lancianese, A. Maria – English Journal, 1996
Lists 24 writing lesson plans or teaching approaches designed to keep students engaged toward the end of the school year, including list making, ABC stories, fractured fairy tales, cut word stories, "bummer behavior" letter writing, and using children's books as a stimulus. (TB)
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Secondary Education, Student Motivation, Student Needs
Ruurs, Margriet – 2001
Showing how to introduce poetry to encourage creativity while teaching solid craft skills, this book presents mini-lessons and activities to help teachers in grades 3 through 8 get students to respond to poetry with joy and enthusiasm throughout the curriculum. The skills students learn from doing the exercises in the book support national, state,…
Descriptors: Editing, Elementary Education, Lesson Plans, Literature Appreciation
Sinning, Karen – 2003
Middle grades students read, write, speak, listen, and research as they interview a partner and write an article, write a personal memoir, take partner photographs, and use the Internet to find pictures and information illustrating their partners interests. Results are shared in the form of a poster and a classroom presentation. During the fifteen…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Internet, Interviews, Lesson Plans
Olness, Rebecca – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2005
Learn how to use literature to teach students the six traits that characterize effective writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. This practical text gives the reader a variety of ideas and strategies for developing and integrating the traits into students? writing, bibliographies of recommended…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
Gardner, Traci – 2003
Boom! Br-r-ring! Cluck! Moo!--exciting sounds are everywhere. Whether visiting online sites that play sounds or taking a "sound hike," ask your students to notice the sounds they hear, then write their own book, using sound words, based on Dr. Seuss's "Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?" During the three 45-minute sessions, grade K-2…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Language Usage, Lesson Plans, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Roth, Sharon – 2003
The lead of a story is the beginning, and yet it can be the end if the reader is not entranced immediately. This lesson examines types of leads in prominent children's literature and asks grade 3 to 5 students to try their own hand at writing leads. During the two 40-minute lessons, students will: discuss their reactions to the leads from the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Lesson Plans
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