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Kate Swartz – Communication Teacher, 2024
This activity offers students a way to engage in cover letter writing, familiarizing themselves with the style and content of these documents in a creative, fictional scenario. Students will both prepare letters and evaluate them, with options to vary the gamification of the activity included. During the debrief, students assess their experience…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Business Communication, Organizational Communication, Letters (Correspondence)
Fina, Allan de – Instructor, 1992
Presents two children's poems about candy, by Dorothy Aldis. The article describes a teaching unit on the poems, the poet, and her use of end rhymes. Activities include writing rhyming words, writing rhyming poems, rhyming a recipe, and creating collages. (SM)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education
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Spector, Ann D. – Exercise Exchange, 1982
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: LEVEL: High school and college. AUTHOR'S COMMENT: I used this mini-unit to initiate the class in working effectively as a peer group. Moreover, the task I assigned demands that students develop an awareness of their audience's needs by providing an immediate and concrete response. THE APPROACH: (1)…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College English, Descriptive Writing, High Schools
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Gibson, Michelle; Thomas, Timothy G. – Mathematics Teacher, 2005
The introduction of quilt pattern consisting of many quilt blocks formed by congruent triangles, for writing by the students in the geometry classrooms, is studied. It is found that the students enjoyed this method and writing also helped in understanding the geometric concepts expanding their vocabulary in geometry.
Descriptors: Geometry, Geometric Concepts, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
Zingher, Gary – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1996
Describes activities for an elementary school library media center that are centered around folktales with forest settings, including people as well as animals and plants which inhabit the forest. Highlights include reading and discussing folklore, descriptive writing exercises, small group activities, and examples of 12 literary characters. (LRW)
Descriptors: Characterization, Descriptive Writing, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education