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Twelve English-specific mini-lessons

- Grammar and style practice
English-Zone.com
The Writing Center at KSU

- Paragraph revision
Interlink Language Center

- Reading comprehension practice with short stories
Interlink Language Center

- Understanding metaphors
"Interpretative Drawings" with Jonson's Song: To Celia
Current lesson design:

LCIMQuestions-SongToCelia.doc

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- Satire's influence
Compare British literature with modern sources such as The Onion newspaper
Current lesson design: Inference presentation

- Oral presentations
Impromptu speeches
Role-plays for read-alouds
Oral persuasion
Current lesson designs:

Stage One Development - Essential Questions.doc

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- Meaning of rubrics
Reviews of good and bad papers with traffic-light system
Current lesson design:

- Sharing intellectual ideas and opinions for a controversial issue
"Main Idea Cafe"

- Choosing books
"CATAPULT into Literature"
"THIEVES"

- How to be an independent learner
"Self-selected Vocab Quizzes"
Writing goals
Summer reading lists

- Feedback
Writing respectfully and constructively for peers

- Saving important resources
Delicious bookmarks


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Note: All titles in quotations come from: Zwiers, J. (2005). Building reading comprehension habits in grades 6-12: A toolkit of classroom activities. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.