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Ohio Standard: Writing Process Standard
Grade Level Indicator: (Grade: 8) 11. Reread and analyze clarity of writing and consistency of point of view.
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Peer Review: Narrative
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ORC# 3811
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Resource URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/p...
Resource Type: Lessons
Discipline: Reading
Grades: Grades 6–8
Professional Commentary: Often students give feedback on each other's written drafts without providing useful information. This lesson describes the Praise-Question-Polish technique in which students work in small writing response groups....
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Picking Up the Pieces and Putting them Back Together: Writing Breaking News
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ORC# 170
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Resource URL: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2001/03/02/picking-up-the-piec...
Resource Type: Lessons
Discipline: Reading
Grades: Grade 7
Professional Commentary: This resource uses a news article from the New York Times to examine how a breaking news story is constructed. Designated a promising practice, this lesson allows students to predict and sequence the facts and details that must appear in a news story....
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Mystery Writing with Joan Lowery Nixon
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ORC# 218
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Resource URL: http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mystery/
Resource Type: Lessons
Discipline: Reading
Grades: Grades 4–8
Professional Commentary: This promising practice, part of Scholastic's Writing With Writers series, provides strategies for assisting students in writing mysteries. Designed for implementation within writing workshop, this resource includes a sample mystery, writing tips, strategies, and challenges to help students develop their own mysteries....
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