As we experience life, we encounter writing assignments with various topics and sizes which, through trial and error, we have allowed criticism from others to discourage us from further commitment to writing. ... As a young child, peers influenced us to believe writing as a boring old person's job, whereas when we hit adolescence, we are encouraged to find writing a sophisticated form of showing who you are. ... Therefore, they just tend to wean themselves off of any further writing. ... You then realize how long it has been since you have engaged in any sort of writing, and don&#x...

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• Grade Level: High School

Heather Zaccone Professor Shultz 12/05/03 Assignments For Writing #2 Richard Rodriguez's' The Achievement of Desire is a story self-identity and culture. Having grown up with parents who remained with the traditions of their Hispanic culture, Richards's ambition to learn, and to be li...

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The types of reading and writing are found within the Reading and Writing Workshops. My students will know the purpose of them reading and writing every day. ... The amount of time students spend writing in these notebooks can vary. ... The writer's notebook is a key component of the writing workshop, which includes independent writing, guided writing, and investigations. ... I will make sure that I am allowing ample time for my students to write in their notebooks at school and not making this a homework assignment. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

120 degrees. Covered in sweat, absolutely miserable. I just want to go home. The classroom was so humid I could cut it with a knife. School was not over though. It was the worst part of the day. There was two hours left on a Friday so my teacher wanted to get in some more work before I completely lo...

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Abstract Reading Comprehension research has a long and rich history, when examining the process of reading comprehension and the effective instruction of it. What comprehension is, how comprehension occurs and how to teach comprehension have driven hundreds of research studies in the last 30 yea...

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Abstract: The traditional way of teaching reading affects the students' reading ability. This paper analyses its disadvantages and gives some suggestions and measures from different aspects. They are vocabulary, reading habits, reading skills, outside reading and also the psychology of the current s...

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• Grade Level: High School