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Classroom Notes Plus
Vol. 28, No. 4, April 2011
Classroom Notes Plus, Volume 28, Number 4, April 2011
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This issue of Classroom Notes Plus includes lessons on descriptive writing, interpreting graphic texts, understanding character by examining ways of knowing and believing, and exploring what it means to be a writer.
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Meghan Dykema, Kim Ballard, Patrick Love and Daniel Kenzie
These three graphica-based lessons will help students navigate and interpret graphic texts more meaningfully.
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Sig Kriebel
Students will apply a deeper understanding to fictional characters after participating in this lesson, which has them reflect on their own preferred ways for knowing and believing.
Writers among Us: Creating a Writer’s Autobiography
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Stacey Brown
Through reading, writing, and discussion, this activity engages students in exploring what it is to be a writer.
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Tiffaney Sharp
In this playful activity, students use discarded texts as the basis for descriptive writing practice.
Handout: Dancing with Description
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This handout accompanies Dancing with Description
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Robert Wilder
This classroom strategy stretches students’ imaginations by asking them to write about thirty things they would like to have accomplished by age 30.