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Writing at the Threshold: Featuring 56 Ways to Prepare High School and College Students to Think and Write at the College Level

by Larry Weinstein

Writing at the Threshold: Featuring 56 Ways to Prepare High School and College Students to Think and Write at the College Level
Grades
11 - 12
Type
Book
Pages
125
Published
July 2001
Publisher
NCTE
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Description

This book offers both an eloquent philosophy of composition instruction and an immediately useful set of classroom-tested teaching ideas distilled from the author's 28 years of teaching writing.

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Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Students explore the genre of commercial endorsements, establishing characteristics and requirements for the genre. Each student then composes an endorsement of a product, service, company, or industry.
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Recurring Lesson
Weekly Writer's Blogs: Building a Reflective Community of Support
Students explore the conventions of blog writing while using it to self-reflect on their writing and communicate with classmates about each other's reflections.