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  2. Reading Like a Writer - Wikipedia

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    Chapter One: Close Reading; Prose discusses the question of whether writing can be taught. She answers the question by suggesting that although writing workshops can be helpful, the best way to learn to write is to read. Closely reading books, Prose studied word choice and sentence construction.

  3. Advanced Personalized Learning - Wikipedia

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    In their book The Writing Workshop, Katie Wood Ray and Lester L. Laminack added a fourth component in where after the teaching portion, the student and/or the teacher would "Make a Record". [15] This modified model can be thought in the terms of: research, decide, teach, record.

  4. Midwood Books - Wikipedia

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    Midwood Books was an American publishing house active from 1957 to 1968. Its strategy focused on the male readers' market, competing with other publishers such as Beacon Books.

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  6. How to Read Literature Like a Professor - Wikipedia

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    The author's simple, methodical take on literary interpretation has fallen under the scrutiny of literary experts, such as the English professor and biographer Alan Jacobs, who questions the value of the book's premise and criticizes the idea that "reading is best done by highly trained, professionally accredited experts."

  7. Evelyn Wood (teacher) - Wikipedia

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    Evelyn Nielsen Wood (January 8, 1909 – August 26, 1995) was an American educator and businessperson, widely known for popularizing speed reading, although she preferred the phrase "dynamic reading". She created and marketed a system said to increase a reader's speed over the average reading rate of 250 to 300 words a minute by a factor of ...

  8. Police ID 15-year-old girl as Abundant Life Christian School ...

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    A 15-year-old girl opened fire in the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday, killing a teacher and a student and wounding six others at the school she had attended ...

  9. Kira-Kira - Wikipedia

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    Katie's best friend is her older sister Lynn, to whom Katie looks up as the most intelligent person she knows. She cites Lynn's ability to beat their Uncle Katsuhisa, a self-proclaimed chess grand master, at his own game, as an example. Katie holds close to her heart the Japanese term "Kira-Kira", which Lynn taught her. They use it to describe ...