Literacy is the ability to make sense of or use ‘something.’ From books to technology, research to writing, literacy is the foundation of learning.
If your child doesn’t read over the summer, they are missing out on the significant role reading can play in personal growth.
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For amateurs developing skills, the process is far more important than the product. This is true in science and is true for writing, too.
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Pre-writing can include clarifying audience and purpose to researching and outlining, making it crucial to the quality of the writing.
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There are specific, research-based guidelines toward which you should aim when building your classroom library.
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The writing process is a sequence of strategies to plan, write, and ultimately publish a polished, accurate, well-organized piece of writing.
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Increasingly, books aren’t thought of as entertainment or even as ways to learn; they are thought of in terms of their form: as books.
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Literature Circles are a way for students to assume a specific role in the study of something (usually a text).
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By demystifying the writing process through modeling, teachers demonstrate what writing looks like in all of its unedited, imperfect glory.
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Limiting the craft of writing in the classroom to a single content area has damaged the perceived power and potential of writing.
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SRE is an initialism representing three central tenets of argument making: Statement, Reason, Evidence (or Example, Explain, or Expand).
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A metaphor is a literary device (or figure of speech) that makes a comparison between two ‘things’ without the comparison being literal.
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