Presents two brief articles--the first discusses purposes for using children's picture books in a secondary classroom, activities for children's literature,....
This article shows how to affirm and draw on the dialect diversity of students to foster the learning of Standard English. Based on insights from applied....
Suggests the authentic audience found on the Internet has a profound effect on the quality of student writing in all grades, and that the key to successful....
This arcticle helps eighth graders review the power of adjectives. Students eat up this project that promises to deliver the opportunity to analyze,....
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Reading internalizes every aspect of good writing—if you’re reading good writing, which most middle school textbooks aren’t. Here are criteria and suggestions....
Explains the author's organized yet reflective approach to getting her fifth-grade students to read in literature circles. Discusses her slow and thorough....
Using children's picture books, Deborah Dean provided frameworks for student research papers that avoided the pitfalls leading to voiceless and encyclopedic....
Through the reading and discussion involved in this activity, students are less threatened by Jonathan Swift's 17th -century English. They begin to recognize....
In this ScienceNetLinks lesson, part of the Energy in a High-Tech World Project which examines the science behind energy, students will explore how chemical....
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