Teaching Summarizing and Summarizing Strategies Make Better Learners and Smarter Kids
Teaching summarizing helps teachers discover what students know, don’t know, and think they know, but don’t. These summarizing strategies …
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Teaching summarizing helps teachers discover what students know, don’t know, and think they know, but don’t. These summarizing strategies …
Continue ReadingWriting good sentences requires a knowledge foundation in sentence structure and types. Review these tips for writing better sentences with this …
Continue ReadingThe Israeli-Palestinian Conflict has been going on for decades and is a daunting topic to understand and teach. The social studies lesson plan in this …
Continue ReadingAfter your students have read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, use this lesson plan to teach two important reading skills - theme and purpose.
Continue ReadingWhether or not the Merchant of Venice is anti-Semitic is an interesting question asked by many in both religious and secular communities. It is a …
Continue ReadingMaster the paragraph and you’ve mastered the essay. Good ideas can be made emphatically and clearly with well positioned, ordered, and …
Continue ReadingYoung writers focus on capturing the readers’ attention in the introduction, yet lose it in the middle. Improve paragraph structure and you can …
Continue ReadingTeaching the rules of evidence and supporting details will help students avoid common logical blunders and recognize when they’re being …
Continue ReadingWriting an effective introductory paragraph binds the audience to the writer. A bound audience means you get to share all those wonderful ideas …
Continue ReadingBeing able to define supporting details and use them as evidence in a research paper or essay makes writing more effective and useful. This lesson …
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