Kim Bowen
Kimberly Bowen is the Secondary English Language Arts Consultant for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
Resources created by Kim Bowen
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- Identifying RAFT elements in writing prompts and assignments
- Student will read writing prompts and practice identifying RAFT elements: role of writer, audience, writing format, and topic. This is the first lesson in a series of three based upon LEARN NC's 9th grade writing exemplars.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Bowen.
- Racing against catastrophe: a webquest for English I teachers
- Students often have difficulty making connections between classic books and their contemporary lives. This Webquest puts you in the role of student to find learning strategies that scaffold the meaning-making process as your own students read.
- Format: /lesson plan
- By Kim Bowen and Shayne Goodrum.
- Revising and editing an essay
- Students will learn how to revise and edit an essay. In particular, they will focus on pronoun agreement. This is the third lesson in a series of three based upon LEARN NC's 9th grade writing exemplars.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Kim Bowen.
- Tableaux tour of texts
- Students express their empathy for characters and events from books read in small groups by creating tableaux (freeze-frames) of key scenes to present to the class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Bowen.
- Teaching the features of effective writing
- In The five features of effective writing, page 1
- By organizing your instruction around focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions, you can help students become more effective writers and make your own job easier.
- Format: article
- By Kim Bowen and Kathleen Cali.
- Using RAFT to determine how to write an informational essay
- Students will use RAFT as a tool to determine how to write an informational essay. They will also design a graphic organizer for the assignment as well as compose a rough draft. This is the second lesson in a series of three based on the LEARN NC 9th grade writing exemplars.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Bowen.
- Working together to get writing right
- Philosophical and practical reasons to support writing across the curriculum in high schools. A WebQuest for teachers.
- Format: article
- By Kim Bowen.
