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Ohio's Academic Content Standards in English Language Arts

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Ohio Standard: Writing Conventions Standard
Grade Level Indicator: (Grade: 8) 4. Use clauses (e.g., main, subordinate) and phrases (e.g., gerund, infinitive, participial).
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Showing Good Taste: Writing Thoughtful Restaurant Reviews in the Language Arts Classroom
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ORC# 181
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Resource URL: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/1999/01/22/showing-good-taste/
Resource Type: Lessons
Discipline: Reading
Grades: Grades 8–12
Professional Commentary: In this lesson students distinguish the important elements of well-written restaurant reviews by analyzing and evaluating reviews from The New York Times and by writing their own reviews of favorite dining locations. Students are encouraged to evaluate critical and persuasive texts as well as writing their own....
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Sentence Combining Skills
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ORC# 4574
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Resource URL: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/combining_skills.htm
Resource Type: Content Supports
Discipline: Reading
Grades: Grades 9–12
Professional Commentary: This resource explores some effective techniques for use with sentence combining lessons. Sentence combining strategies improve students' writing by helping them to reduce motonony and improve sentence structure by creating interesting and complex sentences....
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