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by Ryne "One effective way to teach students argument writing (specifically the use of a clear claim and sound evidence and warrants/analysis) is by asking them to solve mysteries. I found a great article online about a real-life murder mystery and wanted to share it with you:" 
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by Sarah Tantillo "The most important [close reading] skill you can teach your students is how to ask questions. To be effective at reading a text—any text: a story, a poem, a graph, a painting, an opera—you need to be able to ask good questions. As The Literacy Cookbook explains, questioning is an essential step in the comprehension process. Let’s review how it works:"
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Jim Lerman's insight: If you're into professional development regarding writing, the site housing this webinar is the entryway to a host of resources on CCSS writing on the middle and secondary level. The webinar itself offers a good discussion of the planning for a year-long PD program. Be sure to follow the links to the several websites on this page; they take you to a mountain of resources.
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"Every film shares the same common narrative, which is constructed with six sequential sentences: Once upon a time ____________________. Every day, ___________________. One day, ___________________. Because of that, __________________. Until finally ___________________________________."
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by Shelly Terrell "Every day people share the stories of their lives through images and short video clips on Instagram. We heart them and comment on them. Instagram is the social network for us to visually share what is important to us and many of our students and their parents visit Instagram daily. We can use this popular free mobile app and social network to engage our students and get them to connect with our subject matter. With Instagram you can have unlimited image and video uploads, edit and filter images and videos, create 15 second videos, and also use it with your Android or IOS devices. You can tag others, use hashtags, geotag your uploads, and post to other social networks. Your students can also turn in images to you via direct upload. Find out more in my recorded webinar and the slide presentation below. I have also listed resources to help you teach withInstagram. Remember, your students need to be 13 years-old and up to have an account."
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by Demetri Lales "Newsela strives to complete two learning goals: the first is helping students improve their reading comprehension skills, and the second is teaching students about current events. The different Lexile levels open up the platform to a broad range of students who can manually adjust to the level that is right for them. Young students may find the ability to lower the Lexile level very valuable. It could enable them to understand current news more easily. Teachers may find the combinations of quizes and articles useful for testing students' reading comprehension levels."
Amy Weisz's curator insight,
February 19, 2014 6:37 PM
Terrific resource for current events and close reading.
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You probably won't recognize these storytelling elements from creative writing class. "Karen Dietz's insight: Not only is this a great tool to use, but what I really like about this article is that is hows how to use it! "And it gives more background on how the table was created (culled from TV plots). "The table creates wild and fun plots to play with -- even for business stories! In fact, you may find some of yours buried in here. "Or if you are stuck for stories, play around with the table and I bet you will find some to tell from your real life. "In any event, this should keep you busy and happy for awhile :))"
Jennifer Gandarias's curator insight,
February 15, 2014 7:42 PM
This infographic would be a hit in creative writing class 
David Baker's curator insight,
March 20, 2014 12:43 PM
What a great support to deepen writing practice for students as they learn to identify different roles, ideas and structures in their reading and use it in their writing
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by Jim Burke Welcome to the Writer's Workshop
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For a coming student contest in which teenagers are invited to write on an issue they care about, we have gathered a list of 200 writing prompts on a wide range of issues.
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by Ching-Fu Lan "On the Ground Reporter: Darfur is a news game that uses real world images and video footage in gameplay to engage players to learn about conflicts in Darfur. At the beginning of this game, the reporter, who is in the Netherlands, receives a phone call from the fictitious Studio Radio Darfur in London about an urgent reporting assignment in Darfur. After being briefed on the task, the reporter is sent to west Sudan and starts the reporting adventure in four areas. In each location or village, the reporter can walk around, interview people, and gather artifacts that may be useful for news stories. Once the player collects all the designated pieces of information, a news story about the situation in the area is published before the player moves on to next village."
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by Joe Bunting "Dialogue can make your story. In fact, as Shakespeare knew, you can tell a whole story just through dialogue.
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by Matt Asay "I work for an engineering-driven Big Data startup, so I understand the importance of engineering and I don't for one minute doubt that Silicon Valley's war over engineering talent is justified and will only increase. "Small wonder, then, that ananalysis of the salaries of University of Virginia graduates found that systems engineering and computer science graduates stand to make more than twice as much as their peers studying the liberal arts. "A strong developer is worth her weight in gold, but engineering is only half the picture in any tech company, and certainly in any startup. For every company that can develop an incredible hardware or software product, there are more companies who fail in the attempt to get someone interested in buying that product. "This is why former Twitter and Google executive Santosh Jayaram told The Wall Street Journal that "English majors are exactly the people I'm looking for" in building up his startup, Daemonic Labs. "English majors, according to Jayaram, can "tell stories," which is increasingly the difference between success and failure in a startup:"
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Sarah Tantillo shares a simple, user-friendly graphic organizer that can help teachers unpack the ELA Common Core standards and design objectives and activities "Often seemingly “simple” standards require extensive scaffolding, and some of the complicated ones are even more complicated than they might appear. (For example, Calkins, Ehrenworth, and Lehmanrefer to Writing Standard #9 as “the standard with twenty standards hidden within it,” and I don’t disagree.) To unpack the standards, you need to do the following:"
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Have you heard of interactive fiction? Years ago it started with those old Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novels where the authors had written multiple endings and paths to get through the story depending on which choice the reader made at the end of... Via Kim Flintoff
Asil's curator insight,
February 22, 2014 4:24 PM
Readers can come visit, wander through our worlds, and get a story along with the adventure. You can visit Tina Glasneck’s suspense tale Letter to Charlie that takes you through Greyville Writer’s Colony, drop by Shara Lanel’s Good Karma Tarot shop, or trip across worlds (grids) to Nara Malone’s Blue Harbor. 
Alexina's curator insight,
February 23, 2014 1:21 PM
The owners of the Sendalonde Community Library in InWorldz would love to see something like this happen in InWorldz. also http://naranook.blogspot.com/2014/01/an-authors-guide-to-metaverse-how-to.html 
Deanya Lattimore Schempp's curator insight,
February 23, 2014 11:08 PM
Not sure how this is interactive fiction rather than just places to visit, but it looks cool.
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by Christopher Pappas "Digital magazine creation is an endeavor that will encourage your students to express their knowledge in creative ways and will allow them to produce something that they can be proud of. Use these 5 Best Free Digital Magazine Creation Tools for Teachers in order to provide your students with the tools to create a great digital magazine."
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Writers experience a ridiculous range of emotions throughout the writing process: excitement when a new idea comes along; satisfaction and joy when a work-in-progress is completed; and fear at varying intervals between. Via mooderino
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by Brian Sztabnik "It got me thinking about a theory of four. Could I boil down the many facets of writing to four essential steps? We want our students to achieve clarity, could we model this by giving four clear steps before writing. To achieve this, I went through 10 years worth of AP exams and read the high-level sample essays looking for the common threads. What did good writers do repeatedly?"
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by Daniel Melbye "For years nonprofits have used storytelling as a way to share the impact of their work with donors and the community. Typically these stories illustrate a specific case of how individuals and communities have been transformed through these charitable projects. These stories often provide the reader with an emotional connection to the non-profit and can serve as powerful examples of how an organization is truly working to make a difference. "Many people might consider data to be something of a boring topic that is unlikely to inspire potential supporters and that is of limited use to non-profits seeking those developing rich content, but data can be used to share stories that gives organizations the power to both better understand the impact they’re making and share it effectively with others."
Peter Fruhmann's curator insight,
February 10, 2014 3:05 PM
So true. Storytelling has been the explanation of (sometimes confusing, threatening) data from the beginning, and the conveyor of solutions to survive.
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by Tamara Doehring Jim Lerman's insight: Some very clever ideas here. Definitely worth looking through.
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by Anna Small Roseboro Here are samples of the Six Traits © Rubrics for Writing that has been customized to highlight specific requirements for specific assignments. When using the General Grading Guidelines for Writing, it’s important to show students what is required to earn each letter grade. Customizing the familiar rubric makes those requirements clear. Students can self-check before submitting their work, and are seldom surprised with the grades they receive.
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In this lesson, we offer suggestions on how to guide students through the process when writing editorials — from brainstorming a topic to publishing their work — and all the steps in between.
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by kate Meersschaert "Girls Write Now (GWN) is a fifteen-year-old nonprofit dedicated to mentoring young, underserved female writers. Unlike other after-school programs, GWN combines both mentorship from older professional women and an emphasis on developing outstanding writing skills. Also, GWN's track record of success is unusually high for a nonprofit. One-hundred percent of GWN seniors graduate from high school and go on to college, with many receiving partial or full scholarships as a result of their work with the program. GWN has been recognized by group's ranging from the White House to NBC Nightly News. I.N.C. called the group "one of the most enterprising nonprofits improving the lives of New York City youth." While success might be defined by quantitative results, qualitatively the program also serves a broader mission, to improve the lives of young women in NYC. Long an underserved group, young women are often especially vulnerable to the cycle of poverty, early pregnancy, and violenceand GWN offers distinctive resources to help prevent this cycle from continuing."
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