The Five Paragraph Essay is an artificial construct that does not exist in the wild. No one will ask you to write a five paragraph essay outside of high school. No author sits around writing five paragraph essays. It doesn't matter if you call them hamburger essays, or nacho essays. The five paragraph essay does … Continue reading The Problem with Five Paragraph Essays: Understanding they do Not Exist in the Wild
Having already taught your students how to write a FIVE SENTENCE COMPARISON PARAGRAPH you have the base materials required to construct a Five Paragraph Essay Outline. While the Five Paragraph Essay is far from the best form for students to express their ideas, the organizational skills learned while writing a five paragraph essay will built the … Continue reading Teaching How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay
The first thing students need to know, as you teach them essay writing skills, is what mistakes they're most likely to make. Only after being explicitly taught common essay writing problems will they be able to identify and avoid them. This three-part lesson plan will guide you through the process of getting students writing, teaching … Continue reading Identifying and Avoiding Common Essay Problems
If you're a new teacher you're probably wondering how to teach essay writing skills to your students. If you're a seasoned teacher, you're still probably wondering how to teacher essay writing skills to your students. Though they are one of the most basic foundational elements a student needs for success, finding ways to communicating those … Continue reading How to Teach Essay Writing Skills
Founded in 1995, BOOM! Studios creates comics and graphic novels for all age groups. While they have a number of original titles such as Lumberjanes, Slam!, Giant Days, and Mouse Guard they also focus on comics based on licensed properties such as WWE, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.1 Boom! Studios offers a WIDE RANGE OF … Continue reading Spotlight On: BOOM! Studios Comics
Having read your TEXT, you will create a MIND MAP exploring different connections between the story and the world around you. Next, they will research THREE of the connections before choosing one PROJECT-BASED FORMAT. Finally, you will use that format to create a SYNTHESIS of both the STORY and your RESEARCH in order to fully … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Synthesizing]
When reading a text, it is important to ask yourself questions. One of the most important questions is WHAT do I think will HAPPEN NEXT? This allows us to reframe the story, and READ for MEANING in a new CONTEXT. Charles: A Focus on Literacy Skills Charles is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. A full … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Predicting]
Having made INTERTEXTUAL CONNECTION between this story and other texts, you are fully prepared to make INTRATEXTUAL connections by COMPARING things within the text itself. Charles: A Focus on Literacy Skills Charles is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. A full copy of the text can be READ HERE. This SERIES will focus on all TEN KEY LITERACY SKILLS. … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Comparing]
Making CONNECTIONS to a text allows the reader to develop a stronger understanding of the events, characters, and actions by considering how they relate to familiar, personal, or societal experiences. Charles: A Focus on Literacy Skills Charles is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. A full copy of the text can be READ HERE. This SERIES will focus … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Connecting]
Questions lead us to consider the DEEPER MEANING of a text. Both ANSWERING and ASKING questions we enhance our understanding while developing new perspectives from which to interact with a selected text. Charles: A Focus on Literacy Skills Charles is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. A full copy of the text can be READ HERE. … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Questioning]
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