• Exemplars RWR 5-8 Sample
  Immigration research and writing sample. Paula Bellerose and Mary Goodale respectively teach Language Arts and Social Studies at Middlebury Union Middle School in Middlebury, Vermont. They created this unit together and have used it in their classrooms as well as in a number of workshops. The unit was accepted by the Vermont State Department as a juried standards-based unit in 1998. It has rubrics and writing samples of each.
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• Exemplars: Your Best Resource to Improve Student Writing
  Graham Foster and Toni L. Marasco provide more than 50 exemplar-based mini-lessons provide a hands-on, flexible approach to meeting specific student writing needs. These activities involve students in evaluating writing samples and then applying what they have learned to their own work. Organized around the six key traits of good writing—
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• EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE PROJECTS: An Introductory Level Guide
  This introductory level guide presents basic information for doing a science project. For a more detailed treatment see Experimental Science Projects: An Intermediate Level Guide.
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• Gallery of Writing
  National Council of Teachers of English, You can read published work, publish your own work, start a local gallery or search galleries
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• Glenbrook South High School English: Research
  This site prepared by Glenbrook South HS provides support for students for writing a research paper. See other links for writing support etc. Rec. by Paul Ceisel
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• Handouts: Main Index from Owl Online Writing Resource
  Purdue univeristy offers a number of handouts for students and teachers. Research papers, grammar, punctuatuion and spelling, support for ELLs etc.
  The Purdue University Online Writing Lab serves writers from around the world and the Purdue University Writing Lab helps writers on Purdue's campus.
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• Hawthorn Junior High School - Writing Across the Curriculum
  Writing is an activity that is used primarily for learning and communication. It also shows clarity of thought and deepens understanding of material. The purpose of this page is to provide teachers with strategies to use in their classrooms to help students learn. These strategies go across content areas and grade levels. Before using any of these strategies, one has to ask the question "What's my purpose?" These strategies are used for writing that is short, spontaneous, exploratory, unedited, informal and personal, and not lengthy and formal. Many of these strategies are adapted from The Illinois Writing Project Writing to Learn by Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman
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• Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English
  How to Set Up a Language Workshop in Your Linguistically Diverse Classroom by Nancy Akhavan,Help! The author describes how loanguage workshop focuses on the specific language needs of every child, allowing you the flexibility to scaffold instruction by modeling specific uses of language, posing problems and ideas that expand kids' language skills, and teaching specific thinking strategies.
  Nancy Akhavan provides the inspiration, theory, and practical know-how that teachers need to support language development within a workshop setting. By creating structures that capture time for rich talk and student thinking, she brings English...
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• High Quality Literacy Instruction, Chicago Reading Initiative
  This resource from the Chicago Reading Initiative provides very explicit guidance for the components of their literacy framework. It defines a strategy, what the teacher does, what the students do and what an observer is looking for. Rubrics for age-appropriate evaluations are included.
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• In the Beginning (DVD): Young Writers Develop Independence
  This DVD provides a close-up view of master teacher Emelie Parker's writing workshop at Bailey's Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences in Falls Church, VA, a school where nearly all students enter kindergarten as English language learners.
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• Increasing Your Vocabulary (Secondary)
  This site from Jefferson County High School has excellent resources for vocabulary development. See the many links and PowerPoint lessons for writing also.
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• Internet Resources in writing and reading to use in English/Language Arts classes
  Lots of resources for: different forms of writing, teaching analogies, graphic organizers, using the internet, etc.
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• IPL Teenspace A+ Research & Writing
  This site provides online resouces for high school and college students. It gives explanations and examples of different types of writing.
  ipl2: Information You Can Trust features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts, newspapers, and magazines; and the Ask an ipl2 Librarian online reference service.
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• KidPub (Kids publish their stories)
  You've found KidPub, the world's largest online collection of stories written by kids for kids! "At KidPub, we believe that writing is a fundamental life skill and a key to success later in life. By publishing kids' stories to a worldwide audience we create excitement about writing and reading. As a popular author once said, "Writers write." We don't criticize, analyze, correct, or evaluate children's stories. It's the act of writing that is important. The more a kid writes, the more comfortable it becomes. Posting stories on KidPub builds confidence and self-esteem in our young authors."
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• Kinsella Index - Taking Center Stage - Act II (TCSII) (CA Dept of Education) MUST SEE
  Professional Learning Video Presentation Series: Dr. Kate Kinsella Videos of Presentations by Dr. Kinsella which include videos of in-class applications. Great modeling of scaffolding language. (Jeanette's note. This is an RtI Read 180 program. Include additional challenge and much greater differentiation in classes with a wider range of learners.)
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• LANGUAGE-EXPERIENCE-APPROACH (J Gordon)
  LEA is used to teach students to read from their own retelling of an experience. Jeanette Gordon summarizes the strategy, provides support for using the approach with ELLs individually or in multi-level classes. Suggestions for teaching writing, differentiated follow-up literacy tasks and other resources developed with Lucia Morales are included.
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• Literacy and Learning: Reading in the Content Area
  A large selection of reading strategies
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• Literacy Matters: Middle Grades and Secondary School
  The goal of the Literacy Matters project is to improve the literacy development of middle grades and secondary school students, especially those students who are struggling to succeed. The content within this web site focuses on what matters most in adolescent literacy development. The first two "matters" are adolescent literature and content area literacy. Literacy Matters seeks to reach three audiences.
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• Make Me a Story (Digital Storytelling)
  Stenhouse Publishers Make Me a Story by Lisa Miller demonstrates the power of digital storytelling as a tool for teaching writing and engaging students. It takes teachers step-by-step through all the elements of a project, from research through putting the story together on the computer. Includes a CD with 27 student examples.
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• Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop
  Mechanically Inclined is the culmination of years of experimentation that merges the best of writer's workshop elements with relevant theory about how and why skills should be taught. It connects theory about using grammar in context with practical instructional strategies, explains why kids often don't understand or apply grammar and mechanics correctly, focuses on attending to the “high payoff,” or most common errors in student writing, and shows how to carefully construct a workshop environment that can best support grammar and mechanics concepts. Jeff emphasizes four key elements in his teaching
  Stenhouse books and videos help K-12 teachers deepen their professional knowledge and build their students' skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.
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