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  • Writing Prompts For Elementary Students
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    50 Writing Prompts For Elementary Students

    ByTeachThought Staff

    What do you like more, reading or writing? Why? What do you like most about yourself? What superpower do you wish you had?

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  • How To Write A Thesis Statement
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    How To Write A Thesis Statement

    ByTeachThought Staff

    In short, your thesis is your ‘point’–what you’re trying to argue. And writing one is about clarifying, arguing, and proving that point.

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  • How To Motivated Students To Read More In Summer
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    25 Resources And Ideas To Help Students Read More During The Summer

    ByTeachThought Staff

    If your child doesn’t read over the summer, they are missing out on the significant role reading can play in personal growth.

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  • Sight Word Literacy Activities For Elementary Students
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    Sight Word Literacy Activities And Assessments For Elementary Students

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    How can we help students who are reading below grade level? How can we help struggling mathematicians? 

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  • How To Create An Effective Classroom Library
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    How To Create An Effective Classroom Library

    ByTeachThought Staff

    There are specific, research-based guidelines toward which you should aim when building your classroom library.

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  • What’s The Writing Process?
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    What’s The Writing Process?

    ByTeachThought Staff

    The writing process is a sequence of strategies to plan, write, and ultimately publish a polished, accurate, well-organized piece of writing.

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    Don’t Teach Kids How To Read, Teach Them Why

    ByTerry Heick

    Increasingly, books aren’t thought of as entertainment or even as ways to learn; they are thought of in terms of their form: as books.

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  • What Are Literature Circles
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    What Are Literature Circles?

    ByTerry Heick

    Literature Circles are a way for students to assume a specific role in the study of something (usually a text).

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    One Way To Teach The Writing Process

    ByTeachThought Staff

    By demystifying the writing process through modeling, teachers demonstrate what writing looks like in all of its unedited, imperfect glory.

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    It’s Time To Think Differently About Writing In The Classroom

    ByTerry Heick

    Limiting the craft of writing in the classroom to a single content area has damaged the perceived power and potential of writing.

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  • SRE And CEI: Easy To Use Writing Strategies For The Classroom
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    SRE And CEI: Easy To Use Writing Strategies For The Classroom

    ByTerry Heick

    SRE is an initialism representing three central tenets of argument making: Statement, Reason, Evidence (or Example, Explain, or Expand).

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  • What Is A Metaphor? Definition, Examples, And Types
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    What Is A Metaphor? Definition, Examples, And Types

    ByTeachThought Staff

    A metaphor is a literary device (or figure of speech) that makes a comparison between two ‘things’ without the comparison being literal.

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  • 44 Young Adult Dystopian Novels For Teens
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    44 Young Adult Dystopian Novels For Teens

    ByTeachThought Staff

    While the content can be dramatic, dystopian novels for young adults can offer a kind of practice for navigating an uncertain world.

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  • 12 Tools To Find Quality Reading Passages For Your Classroom
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    12 Tools To Find Quality Reading Passages For Your Classroom

    ByTeachThought Staff

    Quality sources of free reading passages are useful for any teacher regardless of grade level or content area.

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