Posts tagged textual evidence
Blending Quotes with TCS: A Strategy for Essay Writing Success!
Blending Quotes with TCS: A Strategy for Essay Writing Success!

Blending textual evidence into writing is a key skill for writing any academic essay. But year after year, I find that high school students still struggle with this skill, creating run-on sentences or fragments instead of complete sentences. I also find that students can sometimes be confused about where to place the blending stem and how to smoothly transition into the quotation.

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Writing Mini-lessonsMeredith Dobbstextual evidence, writing skills, blending, blending quotes, quotes, quotationsComment
Writing is Recursive, Not Linear: Free Task Cards to Reflect Writing as a Process
Writing is Recursive, Not Linear: Free Task Cards to Reflect Writing as a Process

Writing goes all ways: forwards, backwards, sideways, over there, and over here.  In fact, the only piece of the writing process that occurs at a set point in time is publishing.

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Best Practices, Editing & Revision, FREEBIES, The Writing Process, Writing Assignments, Writing Mini-lessons, Writing WorkshopMeredith Dobbswriting workshop, writing skills, writer's notebook, writing process, revising and editing, revision, editing, edit, revise, targeted writing skills, writing lesson, commentary, textual evidence, evidence, organization, transitions, transitional devices, grammar, grammar and writing, task cards, taskComment