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Reading Teacher, 2012
The "Toolbox" column features content adapted from ReadWriteThink.org lesson plans and provides practical tools for classroom teachers. This issue's column features a lesson plan adapted from "Graphing Plot and Character in a Novel" by Lisa Storm Fink and "Bio-graph: Graphing Life Events" by Susan Spangler. Students retell biographic events…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Biographies, Relevance (Education)
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Pavlak, Christina M. – Reading Teacher, 2013
Using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as a theoretical framework, a team of university staff and educators at a traditionally under-performing urban elementary school built a collaboration aimed at enhancing writing instruction. The current qualitative research study, which was part of this larger project, focused on biography writing in Eva…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Biographies, English Language Learners, Linguistic Theory