Using picture books as mentor texts, students learn effective strategies for organizing information that compares and contrasts. Students can then apply appropriate organizational strategies to their own papers.

Students identify, explore and apply the elements of circle plot structures to their own stories by using graphic organizers, reading and writing stories, and using checklists to assess their work.

The following resources/rubrics are included for Grade 6 ELA:
-Writing Strategies Checklist
- Teacher-Guided Inquiry Report
-Comprehending and Responding Component
- Writing Component

Included are resources for writing checklists for strategies and qualities and rubrics for grade 8 ELA.

The following resources are included:
- Criteria for a good poster
- Criteria for a good brochure
- Criteria for a good poem
- Criteria for a good personal narrative
- "I Can" statements
- Overview of writing components
- Writing qualities checklist
- Writing strategies checklist

Includes:
Transfer of responsibility
Strategies
Planners
Lesson Ideas

Students take a fresh look at the revision process and help one another polish their written work through a peer-editing strategy that is simple, systematic, and constructive.

Students use picture books as framing texts for research, freeing them from the language of encyclopedia sources and allowing them to focus their attention on the content of their papers.

Author Lori Jamison - from literacyworld.org
Includes:
*Writing Milestones at a glance
*Things to write about for "shared experiences"
*How to write in Kindergarten
*A variety of writing strategies
*Writing Ideas Bingo
*Topic Tree
*Book writing
*5 finger planner
*Storm and sort
*3-2-1 planner

The following is the .ppt presentation used to support developing writing plans integrated with writing at Sun West.

This method enables students to master the skills that are essential if they are to become competent writers. In turn, those skills equip students to become better readers, to communicate more effectively in writing and speaking, and most importantly, to elevate their thinking.

The Hochman Method is a set of specific writing strategies that teachers use in every grade and in all subjects, including ELA, social studies, science, world languages, and math.

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