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.

Lessons in Graphica

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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.

Handout: Sample Frames

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This handout accompanies Lessons in Graphica

Knowledge and Characters

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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.

Dancing with Description

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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

Thirty Before 30

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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.