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Organizing Idea for Essay Unit
January 29th, 2010 by Jen Munnerlyn

Watch Organizing for Essays. A short video detailing the organizational tool we used to help students during the unit: Breathing Life into Essays by Lucy Calkins. (It takes a minute for the movie to load, however it will begin playing automatically.)


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  • literacybytes.com » Blog Archive » How’s It Going? Breathing Life Into Essays (Week 16) writes:
    January 29th, 2010 at 7:52 am

    [...] my last weekly write up I mentioned I would post one collection idea useful in session 9. (Click Here.) This is just one way children can collect and organize their ideas and thoughts. The goal of [...]

  • literacybytes.com » Blog Archive » How’s It Going? Breathing Life Into Essays (Week 15) writes:
    January 29th, 2010 at 7:45 am

    [...] All of the grades basically worked through sessions 3-7 this week. These lessons continued to show children how to generate ideas, however they also began to work on the ever-important “framing” of this work, what Lucy calls: Boxes and Bullets. Prep work for next week should include getting the materials ready for collecting stories for each topic idea (bullet) students decide on for their thesis. (See my example of a collection system we are planning to use in every grade this year Here.) [...]


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