NCTE INBOX

November 8, 2005
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Modeling Writing Strategies The Standards for Middle and High School Literacy Coaches, released last week, point to a number of characteristics that lead to a supportive writing environment at a school. No matter what level you teach, these standards can provide useful strategies to support student writers. For instance, Element 4.2.4 states, "Literacy coaches know and model strategies for supporting students with the writing process and the characteristics of different types of expository and imaginative writing" (22). These ReadWriteThink lessons and NCTE articles provide ways to model and explore such writing process strategies with students and colleagues: Teaching the Compare and Contrast Essay through Modeling (E) As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor (E) She Did What? Revising for Connotation (M) Picture Books as Framing Texts: Research Paper Strategies for Struggling Writers (M) Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain (S) So What Do You Think? Writing a Review (S) "The Art of Paraphrase" (C), from Teaching English in the Two-Year College "Using The Devil's Dictionary to Teach Definitions" (C), from Teaching English in the Two-Year College NOTE: Free access to journal articles mentioned in this Inbox is provided for 21 days. After this free access period expires, articles are available to journal subscribers only. This Inbox Idea was published 02-15-2005. Initials in annotations indicate academic level of the resource (E=Elementary, M=Middle, S=Secondary, C=College, G=General).