Resources

 Guided Reading Resources [|Rotten Tomatoes- Movie Reviews at a range of levels] [|NY times- Brainstorm Interest topics in tech, science and education] [|Teen Ink- Strong essays, reviews, fiction and more by high school and middle school students] [|Sherman Alexie essays- some mature, all fantastic] [|Dave Pilkey's web site...probably the best thing I've ever read.] [|Dave Pilkey published interviews] [|Dave Pilkey Revision Models] [|Orson Scott Card] [|award-winning youth poetry at Lighthouse Writers] [|Poetry 180] [|Garrison Keeler's site... News articles at the bottom left] [|Upfront Magazine (New York Times/Scholastic News) - Teen issues includes debate topics]

Independent Reading [|NY Times article about choice in reading] [|Nancy Atwell drops some pedagogy science]

Mentor Text

(Create links or post files of mentor texts and other resources for your genre studies.) Reviews

[|Author Rodman Phillbrick's model and guide to writing a review] [|Teen Ink- Strong essays, reviews, fiction and more by high school and middle school students] [|Rotten Tomatoes- Movie Reviews at a range of levels] [|teen ink review]

Chicken Soup (for the Jet's soul)

Epistolary

Literary Analysis- Poetry

News Story

Feature Story

How to

Commentary

Writing Process [|Author Chris Crutcher on Planning]

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Edutopia.org- Geoge Lucas’s foundation for progressive education [|search edutopia]