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The Write Stuff: Introducing Genre to Middle Schoolers
Kids must become familiar with different forms of writing before they can break free from their sets of rules. Here's a ...
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Stimulating the Senses: The Art of the Descriptive Essay
Writing a descriptive essay may be challenging, but children have the material, in their memory and imagination, to ...
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Undertaking the Long Paper
Sometimes students feel too intimidated by the enormity of a long research project to get started. Others think they ...
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Personal Narrative Building Blocks
If you've ever built a house or watched one being built in your neighborhood, you realize that in order for a house to ...
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What is Persuasive Writing?
Persuasive selections are part of Informational (Expository) genres. If you've been around young children, you know ...
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Research Paper Building Blocks
Research papers have specific building blocks that make it a unique genre. The building blocks for a research paper ...
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Poetry Building Blocks
Our students enter our classrooms daily with the most critical building block of poetry: their own imagination. It is ...
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Celebrate National Poetry Month!
While most small children love the rhyme and rhythm of childhood poems, as students get older and begin to read ...
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Doing Research: Selecting a Topic
One of the most important steps of a research assignment is selecting a topic. You want a topic that is of interest to ...
Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Memoir Writing: The Power of Narrative Nonfiction
Find out what memoir writing is all about and why it's good for your child, beyond the classroom.
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How to Write a Play
Teach your budding playwright the basics of playwriting, including how to compose a plot, characters, a well-structured...
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Writing Genres
As students prepare to write, they need to think about the purpose of their writing: Are they writing to entertain? to...
