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Convey Ideas in Writing

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bullet Admit Slips and Exit Slips

bullet Affinity Diagram

bullet Biopoems

bullet Book Clubs and Peer Discussion Groups

bullet Brainstorming Activities (Guidelines)

bullet Cause and Effect Chain

bullet Clustering

bullet Concept Circles

bullet Concept of Definition Word Maps

bullet Conduct an Interview

bullet Copy Change

bullet Creating a Classroom Magazine

bullet Descriptive Writing

bullet Dialogues

bullet Discussion Webs

bullet Do I Really Know It?

bullet Helping Students in the Writing Process

bullet Herringbone

bullet I-Charts

bullet Literature Circles

bullet Magnet Summaries

bullet Matrices or Charts (also called Semantic Feature Analysis or Distinctive Features Activity)

bullet Opinion-Proof

bullet R.A.F.T.: Role, Audience, Format, Topic

bullet Ready, Set, Recall

bullet Save the Last Word for Me (Adaptation)

bullet Semantic Mapping

bullet Strategies to Support Collaboration

bullet Think Alouds

bullet Think Sheets

bullet Timeline

bullet Types of Journals

bullet Unsent Letters

bullet (Write and Share)2


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