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[|LiketoWrite Facebook site] - daily posting of ideas and inspiration from teachers and authors by me [|The National Writing Project] [|The National Writing Project Newsletter]: [|Expeditionary Learning] - Common Core reading-writing (integrated) project samples [|Portland Public Schools] ** - **Teachers posted writing units that go along with Calkins' kits, K-5. [|ELA SCOOP] This issue is all about writing.

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[|Larry Ferlazzo's] Websites of the Day A collection of the best lists on writing [|30 Ideas for Teaching Writing] just one page of the National Writing Project site. So useful to share. [|Writing With Rebecca] maintains her own consulting business and this website, which is chocked full of photos and lesson ideas. [|NC DPI] has TONS of great writing ideas - literally, a very-well kept secret. These pages are suggested for high school, but I use the ideas all the time with elementary and middle school kids. The suggestions are short and easy-to-adapt to any content. [|LikeToWrite] Send this link to parents to explain how they can help their children write better. Find lesson plans and units that dovetail with Common Core. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Adventures in Teaching:] My niece is drawing comics through her first years of teaching! <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Paperless Teaching] Always a goal of mine, I like to come back to this site and read tips often. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|The Times and Common Core Strategies:] Reading Strategies for informational text: teaching topics page; world history standards Bingo; Great Ideas from Educators; Found Poetry; Quotation Contest, and more!
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">LikeToWrite, **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> my site. Click on the topic on the [|HOME page], read the theory on the web page, click on the FREE, pdf version of my lessons on the right site bar.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span class="gmw_">[|Lucy Calkins] **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">NEW Units and website support grade by grade. Added 7/28/13.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Compare-Contrast, Cause-Effect, Problem-Solution] mentor texts in The New York Times.
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