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THINKING AND WRITING PROCESS
High
School Media Directors- Research
Papers and Essays
EMPOWER YOUR
STUDENTS TO THINK WITH SELF-RELIANCE.
RESEARCH
PAPERS and ESSAYS - Simplified and Practical: Your students will come
to you with varying experiences in using media and preparing research reports.
The Writer’s Guides can help them to catch up, to refresh, or to continue
using the process.
For you the goal is that students can independently produce papers
in the basic expository structure so teachers can be free to
help them focus on developing
their thoughts and composition skills. If your staff teaches Level 1,
Level 2, and Level 3 in elementary, your students will come to you ready to use Level
3. They will know the basic process of notes, categories,
an outline, and a
paper with an introductory paragraph, topic paragraphs with topic sentences,
and a concluding paragraph. However, if your students are not familiar with
this process, you will begin with non-optional steps in the Level
3 Teacher’s
Guide: Teaching Research Papers and Expository Essays. Once inexperienced students
get past their first time of taking notes, you’ll be thrilled with how
quickly they grasp the flow of the strategies! After two or three experiences
with all of the steps, you can lead most of them into independently following
the Level 3 Writer’s Guide: Think,
Organize, Write!
What do students do? First students take notes on cards, think about
them, sort them, and organize them on a topic outline. Then they write an
introductory paragraph, topic paragraphs in their outlined order, and a concluding
paragraph. Finally, they edit, proofread, and publish their expository papers.
After one or two experiences through this process, many students can be eased
into the Level 3 Writer’s Guide. They will quickly become self-reliant,
freeing you and their teachers to mingle among them, observe them, help them
individually, and help dependent students who need closer direction.
Check my website for freebies, sneak peeks, details, products,
and order information. Share this with teachers. Order your
Level 3 Teacher’s and Writer’s
Guides. Help teachers to
empower students with independence in taking notes, thinking with them,
organizing them, and writing expository reports and essays. Help teachers
to lead focused, thought-filled discussions with the questions. Your
impact will serve students for many, many years.
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Thea
Holtan
