Setting up the Conditions for Excellence in Writing Instruction. Thoughts on education by Grant Wiggins. First 5 Days of School for Educators. Workflow in the iPad. With all of the iPads flooding into schools these days, many other classroom systems have come under scrutiny.
In particular, the following questions abound: Do I have current resources for my class AND are they iOS compatible? What’s the best way to distribute work to students, receive the work, and return it graded? How complex do my workflow systems have to be, and how many do I actually need to get the flow the way I want it? Common Core: Teaching Argument & Informational Paragraph Writing. Each school year I begin with “writing boot camp” where we focus on the fundamentals of writing.
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Common Core Rubric Creation Tool. Writing to Inform and Make Arguments. I started Early—Took my Dog, by Emily Dickinson. Howard Rheingold's Social Media Literacies Syllabus: High School. ELA Units with Cx Texts Juried by OER. CloseReadingHiRes.png 1,200×2,770 pixels. Meeting the Common Core with Facing History in a Literature Classroom. Website CC Text Complexity Series Burkins and Yaris.
Library Of Congress Massive CC Resources. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is here and teachers are trying to figure out how to best integrate it into their tried-and-true lessons. They’re struggling to integrate technology to best augment CCSS. They are in desperate need of classroom materials that they can trust. Like a superhero, the U.S. Library of Congress has just swooped in and unveiled an enormous new (and free!) Resource that’s all about the Common Core. Common Core Resources You can now do a ‘ Search By Standards ‘ query which lets you do exactly that. Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations.
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Website CC Text Complexity Series Burkins and Yaris. Prepping for PARCC, Part III « Co-Creating Solutions: A Blog by CTL. 9 Ways to Give (More Effective) Writing Feedback. Grading essays is a tricky business. Commenting on every problem leads to a sea of ink that can overwhelm students. Vague remarks like “needs more here” leave students scratching their heads. Here are nine suggestions from experienced teachers on how to make grading papers faster, easier and more effective: 1. Workshop It I do a workshop with my middle schoolers in which they share their work with the group and everyone offers "things that can be better. " 2. 3. 4. 5. Here's a technique that always works. 6. 7. Have each student trade papers with a peer before it comes to you. 8. 9.
If students are still in the draft phase, provide a whole-class mini lesson on a specific writing problem you are seeing often. If you liked this article, you may also want to check out Writing Across the Content Areas and Teaching Fact vs. Closer Readings. Mary Downs and Leah Weinryb Grohsgal, NEH Program Officers, Division of Preservation and Access Last week’s blog post introduced Chronicling America, a deep repository of historic American newspapers covering the years 1836–1922.
Students can use newspapers available through Chronicling America to expose the rich texture of the women’s rights movement and its many milestones, meetings, and debates right from the beginning and in a way that few other resources can. As an added bonus, they will be working with the kind of complex informational texts that the Common Core English Language Standards recommends. In what follows, we'll be suggesting articles written from a variety of points of view that make arguments based on appeals to evidence. Tools for Analyzing Primary Sources and Close Reading. I love EDSITEment !
If you haven’t been there, you really need to head over and check it out. Joe Phelan, an educational liasion, describes EDSITEment as: What Does The PARCC Assessment Blue Print Signal for Teaching and Learning? Text-Selection-Guidelines-CCSS-ELA-Grades-3-8. Matched texts from Odell Ed.
The Norton FIELD GUIDE To WRITING. Jane Austen Multi-Genre Project. Dear Reader, Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors.
I chose to create my multigenre research project on Jane Austen because I find it fascinating that an author who was popular in her own time has managed to remain popular for over 200 years, despite all the changes in society and culture. On a more personal note, Jane Austen is my literary comfort food. When I read her novels, I know that I will meet interesting characters, I will laugh and perhaps even cry, and I will close the book after reading a happy ending. Before I began researching this topic, I knew a great deal about Jane Austen because I have been a fan of her novels for about thirteen years and I read several Jane Austen publications, mostly personal blogs created by other fans.
The Lexile Framework for Reading. Writing_Continuum_table. Text Complexity: Simplifying Text Complexity And The Common Core. Teaching Channel: Argument: Birmingham Jail, Soc. Sem, Writing. Book Review: 'Dubliners,' By James Joyce. Kevin Maher is the author of The Fields, which comes out in the U.S in August.
I don't know why we did Dubliners when we did. We were 12, some of us going on 13, and the nearest we'd been to highbrow literature were the eye-gouging groans in Shakespeare's Lear, or the hanged puppies and bashed brains in Bronte's Wuthering Heights — both chosen, one suspects in retrospect, to appease the blood thirsty instincts of eager boys on the teenage turn. But Dubliners? Imagine our disappointment, when we sat before this slim-bound volume, at our ancient wooden flip-top desks, the ones with the obsolete inkwells carved into the corners, and listened to sad-eyed Master McCarthy give us the background blurb to James Joyce, and the power of the well-honed short story, and the greater power of the narrative epiphanies contained within these pages, and within this sacred collection of 15 miraculous tales. And then we began reading. Using Projects and Performances to Check for Understanding. In addition to using oral language, questioning techniques, and writing, effective teachers incorporate projects and performances in their classrooms to determine students' understanding of the content.
In this chapter, we focus on project- and problem-based learning and the outcomes from these initiatives in terms of documenting and analyzing student learning. Barron and colleagues (1998) refer to this kind of learning as “doing with understanding” (p. 271). Misuses of Projects and Performances in the Classroom To use projects and performances as a tool to determine students' understanding, it is necessary to move beyond the traditional view of culminating projects. These tasks should be seen as more than just a fun or rewarding payoff for having learned all that stuff. Text Analysis Lesson For 12th Grade English Class.