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Teacher Bulletin Kindergarten-Grade 12Prepared by the NAD Atlantic Union, Teacher Bulletin provides busy teachers with creative units for multi-grade/multi-age elementary classes. -
6 + 1 Traits of Writing Kindergarten-Grade 8This language arts unit is designed to work for single or multi-grade classrooms, with the lessons broken into grade bands of K-2, 3-5, and 6-8. The model addresses the following seven characteristics of writing: Ideas Organization Voice Word... -
Academic Service Learning in First-Year Writing: Implications for Practice Grade 12-TertiaryThe author shares research answering six questions: 1. What do service-learning composition courses look like? 2. What perceptions do teachers in service-learning composition programs have about their success in ensuring that composition and service... -
Back to School Poetry Unit Grade 1-Grade 4Explore writing poems about summer vacation experiences. Ready-to-use worksheets that form a poetry book are included. Draw students into creative use of words that rhyme, similes, acrostic poems, descriptive adjectives and verbs, synonyms and antonyms. Plan... -
Can Peer Review Help Johnny Write Better? Grade 9-TertiaryThis article provides insights into how peer reviews can help students succeed and how to correctly structure peer reviews in your classroom. -
Celebrating the Writing of Children in the Primary Grades Preschool-Grade 3Publishing and sharing the writing of young children often appears difficult and overwhelming to the busy teacher. This 2012 NAD presentation shares secrets for celebrating the writing accomplishments of young students. There are samples of simple classroom... -
Character Description Integrated Unit Plan Grade 4This Unit Plan integrates the Bible in a Language Arts lesson on writing character descriptions. It also provides opportunities for learning across content areas. It is student-centered, faith-based and best of all, fun for everyone. -
Create Your Own Mentor Texts for Successful Writer's Workshop Lessons Kindergarten-Grade 8"Using mentor texts in writer's workshop helps students more readily grasp new genres of writing and feel more comfortable trying those genres...learn more about creating [your] own mentor texts to use in writer's workshop minilessons" by reading... -
Drawing Before Writing - A Metacognitive Scaffold to Year 2 Children's Story Writing Grade 1-Grade 4"The purpose of the study was to investigate the use of drawing to improve the quality and quantity of children’s writing by using drawing before writing to scaffold children’s thinking during the story writing process." -
English - NAD Secondary Textbook List Grade 9-Grade 12The current NAD secondary textbook list recommended for English/Language Arts. -
I Wanna - The Art of Persuasion Grade 4-Grade 8The author discusses a genre study on persuasive writing, conducted in a 4th- to 8th-grade classroom. She presents guidelines for composing persuasive writing that her students compiled in their initial study. -
If You Can Teach, You Can Write Grade 1-TertiaryWritten communication is essential within the field of education. Not all teachers have been motivated to write, but the author believes that the basic skills required of any teacher are sufficient for him or her to master the art of writing. The author presents... -
Including Second-language Learners in the Writing Classroom Grade 7-Tertiary"Migration is a global trend, with more diverse sending and receiving countries than in the past. Teachers in more and more countries now face the daunting challenge of working with learners struggling to write across a language barrier." -
JAE Editorial: By Beholding We are Changed Kindergarten-TertiaryIntroducing an issue featuring genre studies in writing, this editorial provides an overview of the articles sharing practical applications in Adventist classrooms at various levels. Article titles include: The... -
JAE Editorial: Using Writing to Train Thinkers Kindergarten-LifelongThis special writing issue addresses the connection between writing and the highest levels of cognitive processing. In his editorial, Ostrander supports direct-instruction that leads to authentic, purposeful writing activities. Articles in this issue include:... -
K-2 Multi-Grade Bridge Kindergarten-Grade 2From the Southern Union Conference, "K-2 BRIDGE is an option for K-1 or K-2 multi-grade teachers trying to teach Pathways 1-2 and the new Kindergarten Stepping Stones. Both can be accomplished by teaching one core book using one Daily Lesson Guide. All... -
Main Idea - Unit Plan Grade 5 Grade 5This Unit Plan integrates the Bible with a Language Arts lesson on the main idea of a story. It also provides opportunities for learning across other content areas. It is student-centered, faith-based, and best of all, fun for everyone. -
Opening Students' Eyes Through Picture-Guided Writing Grade 1-Grade 12The universality of visual images allows them to be tools for improving writing instruction at any grade level, in any subject, and in any language. Pictures pump life into the teaching of any writing genre. The picture resources for teaching writing are... -
Reading and Writing Memoir With 4th Graders and Teacher Candidates Grade 4-TertiaryThe article documents the experience of fourth grades and teacher-education students exploring, side by side, how to read and write memoirs. The project was correlated to the Pathways Language Arts curriculum's theme "Personal Feelings and Growth".... -
Reading Comprehension Strategies to Improve Writing Skills in the High School English Class Grade 9-Grade 12"Whether students pursue employment as blue-collar or white-collar workers, employers expect them to be able to read, write, and comprehend numerous types of communication." -
Reading Like a Writer - Thinking, Experiencing, and Writing Enthusiastically Grade 1-Grade 12In order to teach students to think, teachers must, themselves, be thinkers. Since writers must be thinkers, teachers must also teach thinking when teaching writing. The teacher must model the whole process to teach writing well. To model writing, one must... -
Reading Like Writers - Writing for Readers Kindergarten-Grade 2This 2012 NAD Teachers Convention presentation shows how early readers use reading purposefully. See the process and the product of a shared reading/writing experience. There are also ideas for creating shared reading and writing products based on Pathways... -
Report Writing Unit Plan Grade 5This Unit Plan integrates the Bible in a Language Arts lesson on report writing. It also provides opportunities for learning across other content areas. It is student-centered, faith-based, and best of all, fun for everyone. -
Setting Students Free With Poetry Writing Kindergarten-Grade 6Stephens shares how she structured a unit on poetry, what mini-lessons she included, key resources she referenced, and the daily schedule. Sample student work is included and connections to writing prose. -
Speech Writing Unit Plan Grade 4-Grade 6This Unit Plan integrates faith in a Language Arts lesson on speech writing. It also provides opportunities for learning across other content areas. It is student-centered, faith-based, and best of all, fun for everyone. -
Teaching Print Awareness Through Kindergarten Journal Writing Kindergarten-Grade 1Classroom writing in kindergarten consists of 5 main forms: logs, diaries, creative writing, expository writing, and journals. Early journal writing may include a lot of pictures and scribbles. Teachers should establish a writing routine (sample one provided... -
Teaching Students to Write a Research Paper Grade 5-Grade 8All you need to teach a research writing unit for Adventist middle school students. Download 8 weeks (or 40 days) of clear guidelines for the teacher, along with handouts for Grade 5-8 students, including requirements, due dates, and reminders. -
The Daily 5 - Language Arts Resources Kindergarten-Grade 4This list links to resources describing The Daily 5, a method of teaching language arts. -
The Formula Essay Reconsidered Kindergarten-Grade 12Haluska explains the history and value of formula essays. He ends with five scoring qualities a grading rubric might include: unity, support, organization, style, and mechanics. -
The Friendly Letter Unit Plan Grade 3-Grade 5A Language Arts lesson on writing a friendly letter, and providing opportunities for learning across other content areas. It is student-centered, faith-based, and best of all, fun for everyone. -
The Write Stuff Kindergarten-TertiaryStudent writers are often inhibited by the fear of teachers bleeding red ink all over writing assignments, or sarcastically reading papers out loud as examples of what not to do. Teachers themselves often harbor their own frustrations about the task of teaching... -
The Writing Process Grade 5-Grade 12Created by an English teacher in self-defense and for self-preservation, this series of PowerPoint presentations, with companion notes and assignments, tackles the nuts and bolts of The Writing Process in general as well as a number of specific types of essays. -
Toward Research Writing Grade 5-Grade 12Students and teachers alike often dread the inevitable multiple-page research paper. Managing the note cards, quotations, footnotes, and bibliography from multiple sources makes us attempt this but once a year. Is there a way to teach these tools in smaller,... -
Using the 6+1 Writing Traits Approach/Developing Writing Portfolios Grade 1-Grade 12What are the "6+1 Writing Traits"? How can they help you teach your students to write well? More importantly, how can they help your students focus on their strengths are writers? How can you develop a writing portfolio with each student, one that... -
What is Truth? Composition Assignments for Growth Values Grade 11-LifelongThrough this curricular experiment, the author gives teachers of composition classes an example of how they can provide an opportunity for students to experiment with expressions of their own belief and value systems in a nurturing, unconstrained setting.... -
Working with Wikipedia Grade 7-Grade 12This 2012 NAD Teachers Convention presentation handout uses a high-stakes writing task and our favorite Internet source to increase student engagement in your classroom. Writing Wikipedia articles connects students with a real audience and demands attention... -
Write Now! Kindergarten-Grade 8This 2012 NAD Teachers Convention presentation answers questions such as how you help strugglers as well as high-achievers reach new heights in their writing. -
Writers Read Differently - Empowering Students to Read Like Writers Kindergarten-Grade 8Learn how to implement a process that changes the way students view literacy and the benefits of teaching students how to read like writers. Rivinius includes a sample author study lesson plan. -
Writing Checklist Kindergarten-Grade 8Use these tips and writing checklist to organize the writing process with young writers. -
Writing Cross-Curricular Units Grade 5-Grade 12Five cross-curriculum units for high school and one for middle grades were developed in a two-day in-service in Southern New England. A schedule is included for collaboration, and powerpoints can be downloaded, along with the actual units: Improving Athletic... -
Writing Unit Grade 6-Grade 8"The Writing Process is an important part of our curriculum. It is not always easy to find good teaching materials. The units included here have been divided into three divisions: Essay, Short Story, and Free Verse. The units are written specifically... -
Writing Workshop Mini-Lessons—the Easy Way to Teach Writing! Kindergarten-Grade 8This 2012 NAD Teachers Convention presentation previews the Writing Toolkit, a collection of ready-to-use mini-lessons to help teachers provide instruction in Writing Workshops. This tool is part of the Pathways Language Arts curriculum. Whether or not you...