Helping Writers Justify

Nancy Akhavan
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When students are writing explanations, or explanatory essays, they often need to justify their thoughts and ideas.  Here is a page where I explain a couple of ideas and give a resource from my book, The Big Book of Literacy Tasks. 

Ideas for Justifying

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Happy Teaching, Happy Writing!

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