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| Writing Notebook: Visions for… | 4 |
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| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 4 |
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| Reports - Descriptive | 3 |
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Piper, Judy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Presents three activities that use literature as a springboard for the study of history/social science and as a prompt for original writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Studies
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes a mathematics lesson for use with first graders based on a storybook about 10 black dots. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 1
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Describes a class activity using graph theory in the form of finding the least number of firehouses needed to serve a town as mapped by a series of points and lines connecting the points. Notes that the third graders eagerly attacked the problem, and themselves suggested that the problem could be used in grades 2-8. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Porter, Bernajean – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Provides descriptions of how five teachers in various content areas (mathematics, art, French, physics. and English) at one high school in Illinois feel about the importance of writing. Explains how these teachers incorporate their belief into everyday instruction in their areas. (HB)
Descriptors: Art Education, Content Area Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education
