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reading research.
Posted on Wednesday January 16, 2008 by Ruth
Today’s lesson in the sixth grade class went along the lines of Ways to Be a Good Researcher. I taught:
Complete your source sheet only when you know you’ll be taking notes from the source.
Determine if your subtopics are worthy. Will they offer you the chance to collect several bits of information? Are you still interested [...]
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WN Entry: Je me leve…
Posted on Wednesday January 16, 2008 by Stacey
I had a little trouble deciding the routine I’d write about today. However, I wanted to pay hommage to my third and fourth grade French Teacher, so I chose the first routine of my day.
WN Entry: Routines 011608
Originally uploaded by teachergal
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Persuasive Letter Lessons
Posted on Wednesday January 16, 2008 by Stacey
Here’s a great link to some persuasive letter lessons, complete with a business letter template, which I’ve used with my students since I started teaching, over at Scholastic.com. True, it’s written for high schoolers, but you can adapt some of these sheets, as well as the lesson, for an elementary school Writing Workshop. [...]
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