There are three main components of a balanced literacy approach; reading, writing, and word study. ... The reading workshop consists of a read aloud, shared reading, guided reading, reading conferences, and independent reading. ... Guided reading is next during the reading workshop, and during guided reading, I will select a text to introduce to the students while working on one of the comprehension strategies or concepts that they need to know in the first grade, such as character traits. ... Lastly, in the reading workshop, I will do literature study. Children's literature should be p...

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• Grade Level: High School

Abstract Ernest Hemingway's prose has left a lasting impression on the way American literature is written and taught. ... It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that, in a way, puts other great works of literature to shame". ... As we have shown, it was praised almost immediately in The New York Times as being "unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year in literature"." ... He absorbed the objective, fact-based writing style of the newspaper article and made it his own, applying the lessons from the Kansas City Star's style guide...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Related Objectives • summarize, analyze, respond to, and evaluate print and digital texts • compare and contrast various genres, including essays (academic and popular), literature reviews, annotated bibliographies, proposals, blogs, websites, and reports • identify and use various methods of developing paragraphs • identify and use various organizational strategies • distinguish types of evidence used in essays (i.e. anecdotes, logical reasoning, studies, reports, statistics, interviews, academic or popular essays, etc.) ... Connections: Guide to Firs...

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• Grade Level: High School