11/17 ReadWriteThink Content Update

November 17, 2005 by

I added one more lesson plan before sending off the mid-month content report. It’s a fairly general and traditional lesson—Draft Letters: Improving Student Writing through Critical Thinking. The lesson has students write reflective letters to the teacher, identifying their own thoughts on the piece that the teacher is about to read. The useful piece is that the lesson includes some models for students to read and discuss before they try the strategy themselves. Lots of extensions and alternatives included as well.

In addition, there were calendar updates. We’re adding 30 entries to the RWT calendar over the course of the next year. The first five are now live. Others will be added over the next few months. Here the new additions are:


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