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Appositive Worksheet: How Do Experts Do It?
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Self-Reflection Tool: Activities for Sentence Structure Development
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Visual Diagram: Teaching Elementary School Students to be Effective Writers
Use this diagram as a visual reminder of the four interrelated practices that are recommended for helping elementary school students become effective writers. Teachers need to provide daily time...
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Using Mentor Texts to Teach Foundational Skills: A Planner
Elementary school teachers can use this tool for organizing ideas and identifying mentor texts that can be integrated into lesson plans on grammar and sentence mechanics. Using this tool, teachers...
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Writing Buddies
An important part of the writing process is sharing. Having students regularly share their writing with one another in a format such as Writing Buddies is one way to encourage daily sharing and...