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| intrinsic, the innate curiosity that makes us want to figure things out |
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| attitude, community, instruction, and rewards |
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| the most important components of teachers role are : |
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| expectations, collaboration, reading and writing competence, and choice |
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| the most important components of students role are: |
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| writing process,six traits, and writing genres |
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| writing instruction in middle grades has 3 components: |
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| ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and mechanics |
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| descriptive, expository, multimedia, narrative, persuasive, poetry |
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| used to explain something or present information |
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| generating, organizing, narrowing, elaborating, rereading, revising, proofreading, and formatting |
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| literature circles (book clubs) |
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| students make book and group choices; at students' reading level; lasts a week or two; reading and discussion schedule; teacher must like and have read books for a book talk; "intensive study" is student discussions |
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| pre-reading, reading, responding, exploring, and applying |
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| 5 stages in reading process |
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| students choose books and respond to books in reading logs and conferences with teacher |
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| students write on topics that they choose themselves and assume ownership of their writing and learning |
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| folklore, fantasies, and realistic fiction |
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| passed from generation to generation; fables, folktales, and myths |
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| sequence of events involving characters in conflict situations |
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| description, sequence, comparison, cause and effect, and problem and solution |
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| expository text structures (nonfiction books) |
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| collages of words, letters, and symbols; their arrangement on the page, sometimes as a picture or in the shape of an object, helps to convey the meaning |
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| celebrate everyday objects; tells whats good about it and why it's valued |
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