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Cultural Connections and Writing for Change
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A little understanding can go a long way. After learning about difficulties that Palestinian youths face, students will write a letter to an official discussing these issues.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
World Cultures
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ReadWriteThink
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Date Added:
10/02/2013
Dear Librarian: Writing a Persuasive Letter
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Students write persuasive letters to their librarian requesting that specific texts be added to the school library. As they work, students plan their arguments and outline their reasons and examples.

Subject:
English Language Arts
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ReadWriteThink
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ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
10/02/2013
Draft Letters: Improving Student Writing through Critical Thinking
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Draft letters ask students to think critically about their writing on a specific assignment before submitting their work to a reader. This lesson explains and provides models for the strategy.

Subject:
English Language Arts
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Activity/Lab
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ReadWriteThink
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ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
09/30/2013
ESL - Learning English through letter writing
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There can be many reasons why a family finds themselves facing a new country, a new language and even new customs. This program is aimed towards families attempting to learn English together, although it could work for anyone learning a new language. Learning the language of your new country can greatly lessen the stress of unfamiliar circumstances as well as bring the family closer by doing it together.

The methods are to write letters to each other, and thereby increasing vocabulary. Getting confident in writing, reading and understanding English while bonding as a family.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Date Added:
02/04/2017
E-pals Around the World
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With e-pals, students develop real-life writing and social experiences, learn the format of a friendly letter and parts of an e-mail message, and discover other cultures, languages, and geographic areas.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
World Cultures
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Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
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ReadWriteThink
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ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
10/02/2013
Joining the Conversation about Young Adult Literature
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Students create a persuasive case calling for the adoption of a particular young adult literature title into their school's language arts curriculum by writing letters or speeches.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Literature
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Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
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ReadWriteThink
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ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
10/04/2013
Letters and Learning Genre
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Using their prior knowledge of books containing letters, students show their understanding of genre by rewriting a story and reflecting on how traditional stories differs from stories told in letters.

Subject:
English Language Arts
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ReadWriteThink
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ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
10/04/2013
A Letter to Request a Recommendation: A Contextualized 4 day Lesson Plan
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This is a 4-day Set of Contextualized Digital Literacy Lessons that culminate in students writing their own letter requesting a reference. These lessons include all materials or links to materials. It was taught in a computer career class for ELLs. Students need to have basic computer and word processing skills.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Reading
Date Added:
06/23/2016
Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor
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Students use persuasive writing and an understanding of the characteristics of letters to the editor to compose effective letters to the editor on topics of interest to them.

Subject:
English Language Arts
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Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
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ReadWriteThink
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ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
10/04/2013
Persuading the Principal: Writing Persuasive Letters About School Issues
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Students learn that you don't have to raise your voice to raise a point. Writing a persuasive letter to your principal is a great way to get your opinions heard.

Subject:
English Language Arts
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Activity/Lab
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ReadWriteThink
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ReadWriteThink
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10/08/2013
Teaching Audience Through Interactive Writing
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One of the most difficult aspects of writing is keeping audience in mind throughout the writing process. Developing lessons that support this strategy for writing is essential in the elementary classroom. This lesson supports first-grade students in learning about audience. Through interactive writing, students work together to create a genuine invitation letter for a group of their peers. In addition to the interactive writing experience, students work independently to create invitation letters for their families. Extension activities include conducting additional interactive writing experiences, reading books with samples of letters, and creating invitations at a learning center.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Unit of Study
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ReadWriteThink
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ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
08/29/2013
Writing for Change
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Students will learn about how the U.S. government classifies race and ethnicity. The teacher will play a video of students at Park East High School in New York City who contacted the U.S. Census Bureau to start a conversation about the way race and ethnicity are identified in census surveys. Students will also read a blog post explaining how the Census Bureau has changed the way it collects data on race and ethnicity. In the last part of the activity, students will write a letter that could be sent to a leader in their community with the goal of sparking some type of change.

Subject:
Mathematics
Statistics and Probability
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
U.S. Census Bureau
Provider Set:
Statistics in Schools
Date Added:
10/18/2019