Help Kids Write! Animated posters

Help Kids Write is a wonderful resource!

This site is from LaRae Kendrick, a veteran teacher and nationally know presenter on 6-Tratis.  She's created some very clever posters to help kids remember the traits.

Each page features a character who embodies the trait. Included are essential ideas about each trait. This would make a great smart-board intro to each trait!

Here's a link to Ida Ideas! You can click through all of the traits from this page.

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Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)!

• Writing Across the Curriculum - Writing Lesson of the Month Network
  
  
  
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  •  This group receives special notice whenever a new writing across the curriculum lesson or resource is posted at WritingFix.

Twitter for K-3? Think about it!

• K-3 Teachers Guide to Twitter
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    I have been itching to write this Teachers Guide to Twitter for a while now - hoping to encourage K-3 Teachers and others, to give Twitter a try. Many of our visitors have expressed that it is all too confusing - so - I will do my best to unravel the 'mystery' behind Twitter - it is worth it...so hang in there with me...

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Best websites: Working With English Language Learners

• The Best Websites For English Language Learner Students — 2010 | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
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  • My “The Best…” lists for 2010 continue, and this latest one focuses on sites that ELL students would use directly.
    You might also be interested in previous editions of this list:
    The Best Websites For English Language Learner Students — 2009

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Writing Tips, Tech Tips, English Ideas

• A Writer's Background
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  • I like to begin the term in any class that I'm teaching by asking my students some questions about themselves as writers so that I can better understand their learning style. After a while, I developed a variety of writing assignments around the questions that I tend to ask. I usually use one of these writing assignments very early in the term, so that I can learn something about the students' backgrounds. We might discuss all the questions underlying these assignments, but they'd only write an extended piece on one of the questions. In a composition class, the question would be the basis of an essay.
• Ten Audience Analysis Exercises
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  • These audience analysis techniques ask students to think about their readers from a slightly different point of view (as an opponent in a soccer game, for instance), or to think about the similarities and differences that they have to their readers. The exercises lean more toward persuasive and informative writing assignments. Though they could be rephrased or adapted for other uses.
• Designing an Image to Represent a Character
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  • The activity, inspired by a similar task described by Shelbie Witte, asks students to design and explain a tattoo for a character from Romeo and Juliet.
• Haiku training?
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  • This is a training exercise.  It helps condition the muscles necessary for making haiku.
• Tech Therapy - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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  • In what could be considered a model of using off-the-shelf tech tools for a high-impact class project, a writing class spent the fall semester creating resources to help victims of online bullies. The Tech Therapy team talks with Mark Marino, an assistant professor of writing at University of Southern California who led the effort, and one of his students about their online campaign.

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Grammar Lover? Three Books to consider.

• Three Books For The Grammar Lover In Your Life : NPR
  4 minute podcast.  As always, NPR is great.
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  What makes books about the decline of traditional grammar and usage so popular? Books like Lynne Truss' Eats, Shoots & Leaves lament the downfall of traditional punctuation standards and promise a return to good old days gone by. But there never was a golden age of language, because language itself is in a constant state of flux. Yet we still pride ourselves on speaking and writing "well" — even when the definition of "well" is a moving target.
  • How can we think about grammatical "correctness" when grammar's rules are always evolving? These three books give some needed perspective to a lively — and heated — linguistic debate.
    
    
    
    
  • The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
    
    
  • The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
    
    
  • A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition (Oxford World's Classics)

    
    

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