American Author Handout Template
Rhetorical Devices
Weinstein's Placemat Experiment
Flip book instructions
Quicklist topics
LeeAnn Gregory's Rap for the TAKS
Gretchen's Way Oversimplified Rubric
Changing Gears" Lesson
Brochure: 25 Ways to Use Student Essays
"My Paper" by Cyndi Piña
Alternative Text Structures
"Swoosh" by Celeste Cardenas
Ba-Da-Bing Workshop Brochure
Released TAKS Prompts
Two hands (experience and beliefs)
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Downloadable documents for you!
| Did your students make some 4s last year? Get them published! Send copies to Gretchen, along with this permission-to-publish form (signed by parents and students). So many teachers have discovered the power of real, live mentor texts in the form of student-written score-point-four papers. We've shared a number of 4s on my web site, but over and over, I've heard teachers say that someone should just put together a huge collection of fours! I agree. And if nobody else will publish such a thing, we will. The anthology will include student-written fours (and focused craft lessons) at all the grades tested (4, 7, 10 and 11), from any year. We will publish the names of the student authors, which means that we will only publish papers accompanied by permission slips (student and parent). Copies of the anthology will be made available at low cost (yet to be determined) to the public, and complimentary copies will be sent to the authors and their teachers. It's a painless way for students to become published authors: they've already done the work! And writers across the state will benefit from their talent, craft, and effort. |
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