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=// Teacher Help Desk : //= //**Reading and Writing Resources**//

====//Students often feel that writing is a chore; little motivation exists to encourage them to REALLY  write! Then teachers, under the pressures that come with assessment and integrating the New Common Core State Standards, find it difficult to find the time to locate new strategies and methods of instruction that might actually help student learning! //====

====//This is the purpose for this website.//  **//Teacher Help Desk//**       //provides instructional tools to help teachers with lesson design and provides alternatives to their current writing curriculum so they don’t have to take the time to peruse the web for ideas. They can just bookmark this webpage!// ====

====//The tools and ideas found on the pages of this website represent an accumulation of sources collected with the help of peers and colleagues, the Purchase Area Writing Project and expert writing practitioners like Carol Withrow, teacher at McNabb Elementary School located in Paducah, Kentucky. //====

**If you have suggestions or items to share with other teachers, please email them to me at:** **__dbell@murraystate.edu__**  __**jon.bell@murray.kyschools.us**__

**Clipart from Discovery Education.**