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Voices from the Middle

"Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers"

by Deborah Dean

"Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers"
Grades
5 - 9
Type
Journal
Published
January 2010
Publisher
NCTE

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Description

Using children's picture books, Deborah Dean provided frameworks for student research papers that avoided the pitfalls leading to voiceless and encyclopedic writing. Research guide sheets; class analysis of text organization, sentence variety, stylistic choices; and peer review all contribute to interesting final papers.

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Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Picture Books as Framing Texts: Research Paper Strategies for Struggling Writers
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.