The Commons: Tools for Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric gives instructors and students …
The Commons: Tools for Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric gives instructors and students of college writing courses a single source for information on metacognitive critical reading, rhetorical awareness, and MLA formatting basics as well as interesting and relevant reading and viewing content. Its approach is interdisciplinary, bringing in material from ecology, sociology, psychology, technology, popular culture, political science, cultural studies, and literature. Each essay, website, video, infographic, and poem has been carefully chosen to speak to the Eastern Kentucky University community, but everyone can find something that speaks to our common human experience and our need to communicate and connect with one another.
Improves reading through work on vocabulary development, motor skills, comprehension and some …
Improves reading through work on vocabulary development, motor skills, comprehension and some reading rate improvement. Instruction includes sentence structure, paragraph and essay development, and written expression. Students can expect to increase working vocabulary and improve skills in basic communications.
Written by five college reading and writing instructors, this interactive, multimedia text …
Written by five college reading and writing instructors, this interactive, multimedia text draws from decades of experience teaching students who are entering the college reading and writing environment for the first time. It includes examples, exercises, and definitions for just about every reading- and writing-related topic students will encounter in their college courses.
Technical Writing Reading and Video List WR 227 Technical Writing Introduces students …
Technical Writing Reading and Video List
WR 227 Technical Writing
Introduces students to the types of writing they will encounter in business, industry, the academic world and government. It examines the rhetorical nature of writing and asks students to think critically about content, audience, argument and structure. Students will learn how to effectively design documents, present instructions, create proposals and produce technical reports.
Writing Commons aspires to be a community for writers, a creative learning …
Writing Commons aspires to be a community for writers, a creative learning space for students in courses that require college-level writing, a creative, interactive space for teachers to share resources and pedagogy. Our primary goal is to provide the resources and community students need to improve their writing, particularly students enrolled in courses that require college-level writing. As mentioned in 'About Us', we believe learning materials should be free for all students and teachers part of the cultural commons. Hence, we provide free access to an award-winning, college textbook that was published by a major publisher and awarded the Distinguished Book Award by Computers and Composition: an International Journal.
This collection of resources covers the fundamentals of literature and encourages critical and …
This collection of resources covers the fundamentals of literature and encourages critical and thoughtful responses to a variety of writings, from short stories, poetry, and music to case studies and academic essays. There is a comprehensive guide to the basic building blocks of writing, with terms, discussion points, video examples, and pop-culture relevancy. A link to each writing is included, with works ranging from Sophocles to Bono.
This text was developed to prepare students for college level reading and …
This text was developed to prepare students for college level reading and writing courses. Chapters focus on academic reading and writing strategies, readings, and exercises.
Long Description: Topics in Volume 3 of the series include punctuation, visual …
Long Description: Topics in Volume 3 of the series include punctuation, visual rhetoric, peer response, style, multimodal composing, discourse communities, ethos, usability, personal experience in academic writing, exigency, and assessment.
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This English Composition textbook is adapted from Writing for Success with additional …
This English Composition textbook is adapted from Writing for Success with additional scaffolding and context for ESL students. Level: TLEE, 1 below TLEE; Skills: writing, reading, student success
Go Away, Big Green Monster! Ed Emberley's tale about a scary, multicolored …
Go Away, Big Green Monster! Ed Emberley's tale about a scary, multicolored monster is used to help students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills. In this lesson, students chorally read the story and then point out familiar color words or sight words that appear in the story. After finishing the story, students are introduced to four different literacy center activities that include participating in a read along, building word families with story words, playing a memory game with color words from the story, and retelling story events using sentence strips. In the sessions that follow, students create their own artwork of the big green monster and use that artwork to help them write a story. Students use both self- and peer-editing to improve their writing. Completed stories are either published on the Internet or in a class book.
Turn summer reading lists from a teacher-centered requirement to a student-driven exploration …
Turn summer reading lists from a teacher-centered requirement to a student-driven exploration by asking students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books to explore during the summer months.
Puzzle Me Words is a fun, educational game designed for kindergarten and …
Puzzle Me Words is a fun, educational game designed for kindergarten and first-grade students. The game reinforces letter sounds by having students combine letters to form words for the pictures they see (e.g., pig and hat). Scootie, a talking school bus, reads the words aloud, further reinforcing the letter sounds. As students complete each round, they earn a new puzzle piece toward their prize puzzle: a coloring sheet that they can print, color, and display proudly at home or in school.
Two levels are offered in the game:
Beginner—This level limits the choices to eight letters and requires three correct words per round; three rounds are needed to win the prize puzzle.
Advanced—This level is more challenging because all twenty-six letters of the alphabet are presented as letter choices and more words are needed to finish each round before winning the prize puzzle. Built-in save capability allows students to exit but return to their game before they have earned their final prize puzzle. Clicking the Save tab at the top will provide a special code that can be written down or e-mailed to a parent or teacher. Note that the saved game will be available for only 30 days.
To continue a game already in progress, simply click the Open tab and enter the save code provided. For security reasons, it is important that students enter their first name only in the Name field. ReadWriteThink cannot recover a game code should it become misplaced or not be working.
This article provides an overview of current research about attention deficit hyperactivity …
This article provides an overview of current research about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as well as strategies to help students with ADHD with reading and writing.
In this module we discuss community in a variety of ways, from …
In this module we discuss community in a variety of ways, from fiction and non-fiction. The module is mostly face to face, with online follow-up to practice written expression of their experience. The module finishes with a guest speaker from a First Nation, Miwok Rancheria. This guest builds on the readings, expands our ideas of who is in our community (city), and provides a face-to-face introduction and discussion with a member of the Miwok Nation (an experience no student had up to this point). "Building Community -- Intermediate-Low ESL Reading/Writing Module" by Duane Leonard is licensed under CC BY 4.0, except where otherwise noted
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Right now I use four essay assignments in Paleontology. These assignments work …
Right now I use four essay assignments in Paleontology. These assignments work to help students meet several goals of the course, including using reading/writing for critical thinking, synthesizing information from different sources, and formulating new research questions.
In particular, the last two of the four assignments are designed as part of a multi-step process. Each student is assigned a particular reading for which he or she will be the primary discussant in a class discussion. Two things are required to make this discussion work and to achieve the (hoped for) "aha" moments for the students.
Students must take the time to read and understand the paper they've received. It's useful, particularly if students are just starting out reading primary literature, to discuss how to approach reading a journal article. Maybe most important is inculcating the idea that most people don't read straight through a paper, that multiple readings are important, and that it's not like reading a novel -- it takes time to absorb. On discussion day, have students talk about the papers in chronological sequence. There should be back and forth discussion, of course, but when this process works right, (which is most of the time, in my experience), the stepwise introduction and discussion of the papers allows students to see how the problem was originally framed, how it developed, and how new information changes interpretations (and that there may not be a clear resolution).
After the discussion, hand out essay assignments tailored to the skills and knowledge you want them to acquire.
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Students will learn and apply techniques to develop and present a personal …
Students will learn and apply techniques to develop and present a personal narrative/memoir. They will take their writing through all stages of the writing process. Their writing will reflect clear understanding of plot, dialogue, transitions, and descriptive details.
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