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Writing at the Threshold: Featuring 56 Ways to Prepare High School and College Students to Think and Write at the College Level
by Larry Weinstein
Grades | 11 – 12 |
Type | Book |
Pages | 125 |
Published | July 2001 |
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Description |
This book offers both an eloquent philosophy of composition instruction and an immediately useful set of classroom-tested teaching ideas distilled from the author's 28 years of teaching writing.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Students explore the genre of commercial endorsements, establishing characteristics and requirements for the genre. Each student then composes an endorsement of a product, service, company, or industry.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson
Weekly Writer's Blogs: Building a Reflective Community of Support
Students explore the conventions of blog writing while using it to self-reflect on their writing and communicate with classmates about each other's reflections.