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	<description>Because Writing Matters</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Teaching Research Papers using MY Access!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>qualtic</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Because Writing Matters</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Research papers allow students to examine a subject in detail as they investigate different facts and perspectives about their topic. Whether they choose the topic on their own or you assign it, the sense of discovery is exciting and limitless. What sometimes becomes challenging, though, is incorporating all those new ideas and interesting quotes into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Customized MY Access! Lesson on Daniel Keyes&#8217; Flowers for Algernon.</title>
		<link>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2010/01/22/a-customized-my-access%c2%ae-lesson-on-daniel-keyes%e2%80%99-flowers-for-algernon-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steph Dixon</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Because Writing Matters</category>

		<category>Lesson Plans: Literary</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tailoring a Narrative IntelliMetric™ Prompt: A Customized MY Access! ® Lesson on Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon.
Contributed by: Stephanie Dixon. Stephanie Dixon is a former eighth grade English teacher, a user of MY Access!®, and a TOSA (teacher on special assignment) support provider for teachers using MY Access!® within her district. She used the following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Vantage Learning Can Support ELL Instruction</title>
		<link>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2010/01/22/how-vantage-learning-can-support-ell-instruction/</link>
		<comments>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2010/01/22/how-vantage-learning-can-support-ell-instruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>qualtic</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Short and Echevarria, “Teachers can use the regular core curriculum and modify their teaching to make the content understandable for ELLs” (2004). And the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) has provided guidelines for teachers to help non native speakers develop their knowledge and use of English using specific strategies.

These can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using MY Access! to Support Special Education Instruction</title>
		<link>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2009/10/16/using-my-access-to-support-special-education-instruction/</link>
		<comments>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2009/10/16/using-my-access-to-support-special-education-instruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>qualtic</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Because Writing Matters</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Teachers and administrators who work in special education can find an assistant in MY Access!, the award-winning literacy solution from Vantage Learning that addresses issues particular to special education instruction. According to Hall, Strongman, &#038; Meyer (2003), differentiated instruction allows all students to access the same classroom (curriculum) by providing entry points, learning tasks, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supplementing Grammar Instruction with MY Editor Modules</title>
		<link>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2009/10/06/supplementing-grammar-instruction-with-my-editor-modules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>qualtic</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Because Writing Matters</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[     Teachers now have a new effective tool for the challenge of teaching grammar.         
     MY Access!® has joined the best from its innovative assessment platform, SPMS®  (Student Progress Monitoring System) with its award winning instructional and data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Four Square Graphic Organizer with MY Access!</title>
		<link>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2009/04/09/using-the-four-square-graphic-organizer-with-my-access/</link>
		<comments>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2009/04/09/using-the-four-square-graphic-organizer-with-my-access/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>qualtic</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Because Writing Matters</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Objectives of the Lesson:
Students will be able to construct a brainstorming web for a given topic.
Students will be able to utilize a four square graphic organizer to plan descriptive techniques in an informative/expository essay.

Adaptation:
The lesson would work for several My Access!  prompts. We have used:  A Favorite Person; A Good Friend; Important Possession; Happiest Time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing on Demand: Preparing for SAT, AP and State Writing Assessments</title>
		<link>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2009/03/16/writing-on-demand-teaching-strategies-for-the-real-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>qualtic</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Because Writing Matters</category>

		<category>Lesson Plan: Writing on Demand</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Grade levels: Middle-High School
Key Concepts: Writing on Demand, SAT®, AP®, state assessments, academic writing, college readiness
Submitted by: Kathryn S. Pabst, Lovejoy High School, Lucas,Texas Kathryn_Pabst@lovejoyisd.net
“Research and experience show that writers need three things: ownership of the form and subject of their writing, feedback from other writers, and time to draft and revise. Yet the harsh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Makes a Good Story? Tips for Young Authors by Aaron Shepard</title>
		<link>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2009/01/29/what-makes-a-good-story-tips-for-young-authors-by-aaron-shepard/</link>
		<comments>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2009/01/29/what-makes-a-good-story-tips-for-young-authors-by-aaron-shepard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jfallon</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Because Writing Matters</category>

		<category>Because Writing Matters... At Home</category>

		<category>Author Series: Tips for Young Writers</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This installment in our Author Series comes from Aaron Shepard, the award-winning author of One-Eye! Two-Eyes! Three-Eyes!, The Sea King’s Daughter, The Baker’s Dozen, The Legend of Lightning Larry, and many more children’s books from publishers large and small. His stories have also appeared often in Cricket magazine. Check out his website at http://www.aaronshep.com/ to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Writing Process Approach to Using MY Access!: Part I Thinking</title>
		<link>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2009/01/27/a-writing-process-approach-to-using-my-access%c2%ae/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sbinckes</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Because Writing Matters</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Target Grade Level: All levels
Keys Concepts: Writing Process, prewriting, drafting, revising, editing
When I first began teaching in the 1990s, &#8220;Writing Process&#8221; or &#8220;The Writing Process&#8221; was familiar jargon in the language arts classroom. However, it wasn’t until I went through a California Writing Project Summer Invitational that I began to fully understand, internalize and embrace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author Series: Interview with Jerry Spinelli</title>
		<link>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2009/01/12/author-series-interview-with-jerry-spinelli/</link>
		<comments>http://reach.vantagelearning.com/2009/01/12/author-series-interview-with-jerry-spinelli/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Loeper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When did you decide to become a writer, and what steps did you take from there? 
When I got out of graduate school and was for the first time writing on my own with nobody telling me to, not part of an assignment, I was getting no grade. So I was a writer. What I [...]]]></description>
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