Studentreasures Publishing. Fox Kit and Eagle. Free Materials. TC Reading and Writing Project on Vimeo. The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project is a research think tank and staff development organization housed at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Led by Lucy Calkins, the Robinson Professor in Children's Literature at Teachers College, the TCRWP has been a leading force in literacy for over 30 years. By developing curriculum and performance assessments, and by working shoulder-to-shoulder with students, teachers, principals, and superintendents, the TCRWP has helped hundreds of thousands of schools to provide more rigorous and joyful reading and writing instruction. The Project works closely with schools in 23 countries, in all parts of the US, and especially in New York City. Hundreds of thousands of teachers have attended one of the seven institutes the TCRWP leads each year at Teachers College, Columbia University. Visual Thinking Strategies Visual Thinking Strategies is a research-based education nonprofit that believes thoughtful, facilitated discussion of art activates transformational learning accessible to all.
Picture Prompts - The New York Times. 1212 lent table. EL Ch7 2011. ASCD Express 11.19 - #RealTeenReaders. 5-Minute Film Festival: 7 Video Writing Prompts for Young Authors. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is coming up, but the time is always ripe for encouraging students of every age to write.
Story in 5 Photos » Show What You Know with Media. A five photo story is a collection of five images which tell a story of some kind without using supplementary text, audio or video.
The five photos should “stand alone” as a story. A “Story in 5 Photos” project can include five different photos or images either captured with a digital camera or located online. This can be setup as a “visual charades” activity, where students create a visual story and their ‘audience’ is asked to guess the topic or subject. Students generally respond to a prompt or challenge which requires creativity and imagination to complete. Examples might include: Quality Student Blogs Part One – Posts. As I have written about before, I have a system in my classroom where students can earn their own blog.
Adapted from Linda Yollis’ idea, I have found the system to work well in both my grade two and grade four classes. Recently, six 4KM and 4KJ students were the first to earn their own blogs for 2012. Jose Popoff: 10 reasons why I believe students should blog. iEARN Collaboration Centre. ePals. 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing.
Summary: Few sources available today offer writing teachers such succinct, practice-based help—which is one reason why 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing was the winner of the Association of Education Publishers 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award for Instructional Materials.
The National Writing Project's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing offers successful strategies contributed by experienced Writing Project teachers. Since NWP does not promote a single approach to teaching writing, readers will benefit from a variety of eclectic, classroom-tested techniques. These ideas originated as full-length articles in NWP publications (a link to the full article accompanies each idea below). Table of Contents: 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing 1. Debbie Rotkow, a co-director of the Coastal Georgia Writing Project, makes use of the real-life circumstances of her first grade students to help them compose writing that, in Frank Smith's words, is "natural and purposeful.
" ROTKOW, DEBBIE. 2003. Back to top 2. 3. 4. Sorting-blog-comments-activity-1b7gdwx.pdf. Write About. Simply The Best Group Writing Site. Visual Writing Prompts. Common Core State Standards - Home. Text 2 Mind Map - Simple mind mapping online. DOL. Teaching+Grammar+In+Context+CAT. Writing_Binder_Grade_4_Section_2. Comic Creator. The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).
The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue (shown at left). This versatile tool can be used by students from kindergarten through high school, for purposes ranging from learning to write dialogue to an in-depth study of a formerly neglected genre. The tool is easy to use, made even easier with the Comic Strip Planning Sheet, a printable PDF that comic creators can use to draft and revise their work before creating and printing their final comics.
After completing their comic, students have the ability to print out and illustrate their final versions for feedback and assessment. Grades K – 3 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson. FCSchoolsGA - EduVision. Conferencing with Students PL This is an example of a teacher leading a conference with a student about her writing draft.
Conferencing is a critical step in digital story telling and needs to be held as often as possible to create great stories. 33778 GA_Cumming_FCSchoolsGA_FCSchoolsGA_369/conferencing1_fdb361126c254c11986e92490aec6ae2_wmvconverted.mp4 A Galimoto Day PL Kindergarten Drama Wednesday Group performs a skit based on Karen Lynn William's book Galimoto about a little named Kondi. Preparing for Download... Video file is missing. Please contact your site administrator. Writing prompts. HistoryFix: Writing Across the Curriculum...Social Studies and History Resources. Writing Across the Curriculum: HistoryFix Northern Nevada's Denise Boswell shares 26 W.A.C. lessons for social studies class Welcome to the HistoryFix Project!
Welcome to WritingFix's very first "sister site. " HistoryFix became a part of the WritingFix family in 2007 and has been growing ever since. This webpage is used in the Northern Nevada Writing Project's Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) workshops for teachers, and it is designed to inspire writing about social studies in the classroom. The lessons you see on this page are all inspired by quality "mentor texts," which are published books and/or primary sources that are used to inspire ideas from writers. You can check out the NNWP's Fall and Spring inservice schedules on-line. Our W.A.C. workshops' driving essential question: How can we deepen student thinking in all content areas through meaningful and authentic writing assignments? Taking our W.A.C. workshop? Meet our NNWP Consultant who inspired this page. Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing by Quick and Dirty Tips.
Grammar. This is a grammar comic about the proper usage of who versus whom.
A look at the meaning of "flushing out an idea. " This comic will LITERALLY make butterflies explode out of your underpants. Writing prompts: Archive. You Are Your Words - AHD. Myebook - get it out there! LendMeYourLiteracy » Create. Collaborate. Celebrate. Writing with Writers. 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing.