This article assembles free resources from the Peoples of the Arctic issue of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine into a unit outline based on the 5E learning cycle framework. Outlines are provided for Grades K-2 and 3-5.

The focus of this project will be a personal narrative of an event or situation that caused a major change in the students' lives for the better. Instead of a traditional written story, students are required to complete a digital story using school tools available to them through the school license or on their personal devices. The face-to-face lesson instruction will take 45 minutes. The remainder of the 90-minute block will be given to students to work on their projects. An additional class period should be added to finish, revise, edit, and share their projects within small groups. This plan is for high school grade levels. 

Behind many of the apparently simple stories of Robert Frost's poems are unexpected questions and mysteries. In this lesson, students analyze what speakers include or omit from their narrative accounts, make inferences about speakers' motivations, and find evidence for their inferences in the words of the poem.

Poets achieve popular acclaim only when they express clear and widely shared emotions with a forceful, distinctive, and memorable voice. But what is meant by voice in poetry, and what qualities have made the voice of Langston Hughes a favorite for so many people?

This article assembles free resources from the Polar Mammals issue of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine into a unit outline based on the 5E learning cycle framework. Outlines are provided for Grades K-2 and 3-5.

This article assembles free resources from the Polar Oceans issue of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine into a unit outline based on the 5E learning cycle framework. Outlines are provided for Grades K-2 and 3-5.

This article assembles free resources from the Polar Patterns: Day, Night, and Seasons issue of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine into a unit outline based on the 5E learning cycle framework. Outlines are provided for Grades K-2 and 3-5.

This article assembles free resources from the Polar Plants issue of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine into a unit outline based on the 5E learning cycle framework. Outlines are provided for Grades K-2 and 3-5.

NCTE and its constituent groups have developed position statements on a variety of education issues vital to the teaching and learning of English language arts.

The Process of Research Writing is a web-based research writing textbook suitable for teachers and students in research oriented composition and rhetoric classes. Instead of focusing on one research paper, I focus on the process of research writing through a series of shorter writing exercises. Students begin by having to carefully think about a topic of research for the semester and by developing a working thesis. They then write a series of shorter essays that explore that topic. All along the way, students are continuing to research and revise their working thesis so that by the end of the term, their thinking about their original topic of research has evolved. As a result, they are not only prepared to write a “traditional” research paper; they better understand what it means to conduct academic research, which I believe is the real goal of an introductory writing course.

"The Process of Research Writing is a web-based research writing textbook (or is that textweb?) suitable for teachers and students in research oriented composition and rhetoric classes."

Chapters 4 and 5 specially address the terms and how understanding the terms can improve writing instruction.

The Furry News; How to Make a Newspaper, written and illustrated by Loreen Leedy. Big Bear, Rabbit, and the other animals work hard to write, edit, and print their newspaper, "The Furry News". Includes tips for making your own newspaper and defines a number of newspaper terms.

The Furry News; How to Make a Newspaper, written and illustrated by Loreen Leedy. Big Bear, Rabbit, and the other animals work hard to write, edit, and print their newspaper, "The Furry News". Includes tips for making your own newspaper and defines a number of newspaper terms.

The Furry News; How to Make a Newspaper, written and illustrated by Loreen Leedy. Big Bear, Rabbit, and the other animals work hard to write, edit, and print their newspaper, "The Furry News". Includes tips for making your own newspaper and defines a number of newspaper terms.

The Furry News; How to Make a Newspaper, written and illustrated by Loreen Leedy. Big Bear, Rabbit, and the other animals work hard to write, edit, and print their newspaper, "The Furry News". Includes tips for making your own newspaper and defines a number of newspaper terms.

The Furry News; How to Make a Newspaper, written and illustrated by Loreen Leedy. Big Bear, Rabbit, and the other animals work hard to write, edit, and print their newspaper, "The Furry News". Includes tips for making your own newspaper and defines a number of newspaper terms.

Improves reading through work on vocabulary development, motor skills, comprehension and some reading rate improvement. Instruction includes sentence structure, paragraph and essay development, and written expression. Students can expect to increase working vocabulary and improve skills in basic communications.

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This lesson plan is the ninth in the "Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating Community" series. It provides a video recording of the poet, Joy Harjo, reading the poem "Remember." The companion lesson contains a sequence of activities for use with secondary students before, during, and after reading to help them enter and experience the poem.

In this Voices from the Middle article, Kristen Robbins draws on her middle-school teaching experiences to share with teachers some strategies for responding to student writing throughout the writing process rather than waiting until the end to give grades to student writing products.