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Papers and Essays
EMPOWER YOUR
STUDENTS TO THINK WITH SELF-RELIANCE.
RESEARCH
PAPERS and ESSAYS - Simplified and Practical: Your
primary teachers will begin with K, or 1, or 2 in the Level
1 Teacher’s
Guide: Teaching Research Papers and Expository Essays. You’ll all be
thrilled at how quickly these youngsters will succeed! Your Grades 3 and 4
teachers raise the learning bar with Level 2, and your Grades 5 and 6 teachers
top off preparation for middle school and high school with Level 3.
This process progresses K-6 learners through key ideas (notes), thinking strategies
(interpretations), and outlines (categories and logical order). It requires
uses of media for taking notes. When students read sources to extract key ideas
on note cards, they exercise and improve their reading skills. With their K-2
experiences students arrive in Grade 3 knowing the expository structure and
knowing how to identify information in it. When they apply their K-2 processes,
third and fourth graders can understand meanings through comprehension and
interpretation. This process gives you a true K-6 development. It is observable
and measurable, and it puts media in a vital position.
What do students do? ?
K-2 students begin the chain by taking notes on cards, thinking about them,
sorting them, organizing them on a topic outline, and writing them into paragraphs
with complete sentences. (K teachers lead orally and write on enlarged forms.)
3-4 students add topic sentences in paragraphs that follow their outlines.
5-6 students add transitions between paragraphs and write introductory and
concluding paragraphs. Finally, students edit, proofread, and publish their
expository papers.
The Writer’s Guide gives teachers and media staff a fabulous tool for
keeping everyone on task while promoting independent studies among students.
It also exercises the technical literature so important in today’s world
of reading directions.
Some Grade 2 students can be eased into the Level 1 Writer’s Guide; Grades
3 and 4 can follow the Level 2 Writer’s Guide; and Grades 5 and 6 can
follow the Level 3. They quickly become self-reliant, freeing 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 Levels
1, 2, and 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
