Classroom Notes Plus, Vol. 28, No. 4, April 2011

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• Classroom Notes Plus, Volume 28, Number 4, April 2011

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  Abstract: This issue of Classroom Notes Plus includes lessons on descriptive writing, interpreting graphic texts, understanding character by examining ways of knowing and believing, and exploring what it means to be a writer.

• Lessons in Graphica

  Meghan Dykema, Kim Ballard, Patrick Love and Daniel Kenzie

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  Abstract: These three graphica-based lessons will help students navigate and interpret graphic texts more meaningfully.

• Handout: Sample Frames

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• Knowledge and Characters

  Sig Kriebel

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  Abstract: Students will apply a deeper understanding to fictional characters after participating in this lesson, which has them reflect on their own preferred ways for knowing and believing.

• Writers among Us: Creating a Writer’s Autobiography

  Stacey Brown

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  Abstract: Through reading, writing, and discussion, this activity engages students in exploring what it is to be a writer.

• Dancing with Description

  Tiffaney Sharp

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  Abstract: In this playful activity, students use discarded texts as the basis for descriptive writing practice.

• Handout: Dancing with Description

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  Abstract: This handout accompanies Dancing with Description

• Thirty Before 30

  Robert Wilder

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  Abstract: This classroom strategy stretches students’ imaginations by asking them to write about thirty things they would like to have accomplished by age 30.

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