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In Defense of the Five-Paragraph Essay

In Defense of the Five-Paragraph Essay

The Toolbox June 30, 2014 at 9:33 am 8 comments

By Rita Platt I believe in the good old fashioned 5 paragraph essay for teaching elementary school students. There. I said it. It may not […]

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Is the research paper dead?

Is the research paper dead?

The Edge of Education March 14, 2013 at 10:37 am Comments are Disabled

“Students today depend on paper too much. They don’t know how to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves. They can’t […]

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Who has the most power: teachers or learners?

Who has the most power: teachers or learners?

The Edge of Education February 20, 2013 at 8:42 am Comments are Disabled

Once, when I was doing my student teaching, I created a test for a “Business Communications” unit.  Now you have to understand that this was […]

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Crack the Code

Crack the Code

Featured Articles July 5, 2012 at 12:35 pm Comments are Disabled

By: Amy Klein See below: a bar code, a UPC symbol and the relatively new invention, a QR code. Ubiquitous on packaging, advertising, personal ID […]

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Two-Column Notes: The Twin Pillars Supporting Reading and Writing of Non-Fiction Texts

Two-Column Notes: The Twin Pillars Supporting Reading and Writing of Non-Fiction Texts

The Toolbox February 13, 2012 at 1:37 pm 2 comments

By Rita Platt & John Wolfe The amazing processes of reading comprehension may never be as invisible as when students first start reading informational texts. […]

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Encouraging Persuasive Writing

Encouraging Persuasive Writing

Featured Articles November 29, 2011 at 5:19 pm 1 comment

Teaching Writing From 30,000 Feet Good writing is good thinking. Well written is well thought out–which is to say that it’s well planned, well organized, […]

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Blog on: building communication and collaboration among staff and students.

Annotations June 26, 2010 at 1:39 pm Comments are Disabled

An Annotation by Jeff Ayer Poling, who is an administrator in Maryland, looks at the span of uses that blogs can have in a school […]

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Research on writing conventions: U R what U write.

Annotations June 21, 2010 at 1:16 pm Comments are Disabled

An Annotation by Jeff Ayer Nelson and Feinstein focus on “Netspeak,” which they define as “a blend of speech and writing” (1).  Their greatest point, […]

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Do-it-yourself broadcasting: writing weblogs in a knowledge society.

Annotations June 12, 2010 at 11:09 am Comments are Disabled

An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer Lankshear and Knobel elaborately outline: the history of blogging, the anatomy of a weblog, a detailed step-by-step process of how […]

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Mining the internet: a space for “writing without writing.”

Annotations June 10, 2010 at 3:13 pm Comments are Disabled

An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer This article really was by Emily Van Noy, the teacher who employed blogging in her classroom, and Kajder and Bull […]

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