Help Kids Write! Animated posters

Help Kids Write is a wonderful resource!

This site is from LaRae Kendrick, a veteran teacher and nationally know presenter on 6-Tratis.  She's created some very clever posters to help kids remember the traits.

Each page features a character who embodies the trait. Included are essential ideas about each trait. This would make a great smart-board intro to each trait!

Here's a link to Ida Ideas! You can click through all of the traits from this page.

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Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)!

• Writing Across the Curriculum - Writing Lesson of the Month Network
  
  
  
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  •  This group receives special notice whenever a new writing across the curriculum lesson or resource is posted at WritingFix.

Twitter for K-3? Think about it!

• K-3 Teachers Guide to Twitter
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    I have been itching to write this Teachers Guide to Twitter for a while now - hoping to encourage K-3 Teachers and others, to give Twitter a try. Many of our visitors have expressed that it is all too confusing - so - I will do my best to unravel the 'mystery' behind Twitter - it is worth it...so hang in there with me...

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Best websites: Working With English Language Learners

• The Best Websites For English Language Learner Students — 2010 | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
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  • My “The Best…” lists for 2010 continue, and this latest one focuses on sites that ELL students would use directly.
    You might also be interested in previous editions of this list:
    The Best Websites For English Language Learner Students — 2009

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Grammar Lover? Three Books to consider.

• Three Books For The Grammar Lover In Your Life : NPR
  4 minute podcast.  As always, NPR is great.
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  What makes books about the decline of traditional grammar and usage so popular? Books like Lynne Truss' Eats, Shoots & Leaves lament the downfall of traditional punctuation standards and promise a return to good old days gone by. But there never was a golden age of language, because language itself is in a constant state of flux. Yet we still pride ourselves on speaking and writing "well" — even when the definition of "well" is a moving target.
  • How can we think about grammatical "correctness" when grammar's rules are always evolving? These three books give some needed perspective to a lively — and heated — linguistic debate.
    
    
    
    
  • The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
    
    
  • The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
    
    
  • A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition (Oxford World's Classics)

    
    

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