Both%20And%20Literacy%20Instruction%20K-5%20%20A%20Proposed%20Paradigm%20Shift%20for%20CCSS%20ELA%20and%20Literacy. 62 Ideas, Lessons and Humor for English Teachers #engchat. Bloom's Taxonomy & Webb's DOK. Research: How SEL Classroom Management Techniques Build Academic Achievement. Respect, responsibility, and a community-based learning atmosphere promote success at Mount Desert Elementary School, a K-8 public school in Northeast Harbor, Maine.
An important aspect of the culture at Mount Desert is allowing students and teachers autonomy to determine what works best in their classrooms for promoting students' learning. Credit: Alyssa Fedele Mount Desert Elementary School is a small, K-8 public school in Northeast Harbor, Maine, that has successfully created a strong learning community that is the basis of the school's academic success. Since 2006, this elementary school has consistently outperformed the state of Maine in the percentage of students at "Proficient with Distinction" or above on state tests, and has been awarded National Blue Ribbon Schools Program status for academic excellence in 2008. Responsive Classroom An Approach That Helps Build Positive Relationships. National Science Teachers Association - Science & Education Resource. Text Complexity: Simplifying Text Complexity And The Common Core. Hemingway and Poe Animated.
Use Selective Highlighting To Teach Students To Read With A Purpose. Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events. Day-2-Participant-2013_06_24-21_52_52-UTC. Grammar and Comprehension: Scaffolding Student Interpretation of Complex Sentences. I'm a fourth grade special education teacher in NYC.
Our school has acquired a new reading/writing program and has discontinued a grammar program we've used for several years. In the new program the grammar component is virtually non-existent. On a gut level I feel that students are struggling with test questions, even math ones, due to lack of practice/knowledge of grammar. They simply don't understand what the questions are asking. I was wondering what your opinion/research shows as far as the relationship between grammar instruction and reading comprehension.
Great question. Also, readability measures are able to predict how well students will comprehend particular texts on the basis of only two variables: vocabulary sophistication and grammatical complexity. There are also experimental studies that show that there are ways that grammar can be taught formally that improve reading comprehension. Let’s slice the sentence at the first “that” and the first “or:” “that needed adjustments” Use Selective Highlighting To Teach Students To Read With A Purpose. Make Your Students “Poetry Geniuses”! By Abi Frost I recently discovered a web resource called “rap genius”.
This Brooklyn-based startup allows users to explore and understand the meaning behind song lyrics, poetry and literature. The long term vision is to annotate all text, including news stories and long-form works like War and Peace. Teachers have started using the platform to teach students critical reading skills, so I decided to try it out in my small seventh grade reading class for struggling readers. I saw this as one engaging way to address Common Core Standard RL.7.4: Austin’s Butterfly – The Transformative Power of Student Work Examples. Different examples of formative assessment. Depth of Knowledge with Karin Hess. Depth of Knowledge Levels. LEVERS, DOK, and Bloom. Blooms Taxonomy According to Seinfeld. Depth of Knowledge. Books That Tweak (Not Twerk!) Great Classics. Originally posted on Kirkus Writers are always borrowing from one another, across centuries and continents.
It’s the writers who aren’t just borrowing but building on what previous writers have created who we’re interested in. Ronald Frame’s novel "Havisham," for example, puts the jilted malefactor from "Great Expectations" on center stage, imagining the life of a woman Charles Dickens left a mystery. "Havisham" is newly released in the United States but check out the other enticing sequels of a sort in this week’s list. For more from Kirkus, click here! Depth of Knowledge with Karin Hess (full version) Webb's Depth of Knowledge.
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Text Complexity. Difficulty. What do these words all mean in the world of thinking? Teaching? GUYS READ. Text Complexity. Appendix_B.pdf Text Exemplars. Does Instructional Reading Level Exist? A Response to Timothy Shanahan (Part 2. History Lecturer : On the stretching of brighter history pupils. The education twitter-sphere has been all a-buzz today with stuff about helping (or failing) bright pupils.
I am not at all qualified to contribute directly to the debate; I can only recount my own experiences, and anecdotal evidence is not very valuable in such a case. Reality-of-College-Readiness-2013. Ready to Research: Recording Citations. Lexile Level Is NOT Text Complexity CCSS.R.10. This Tweet from #tcrwp (Teachers College Reading and Writing Project) on August 15th caught my eye.
A quick glance at the twitter stream confirmed that it came from Stephanie Harvey’s keynote (sigh of envy across the miles). @amandalah: Careful of lexile: Harry potter, old man & the sea &Alexander & the horrible no good very bad day. All similar lexile. #TCRWP Hmmm. . . Lexile Level Is NOT Text Complexity CCSS.R.10. Developing Cognitive Competence: Learning the Skills of Argument.
Earlier I shared an educational problem that scholars have described as a crisis in poor critical thinking training found in American schools today.
We must still better appreciate the value of an argument-skills curriculum. Over the last 20 years, there has been an increased interest in the study of the skills required for argument. The understanding of arguments has been studied in social psychology (persuasion and attitude change) and in cognitive and developmental psychology (reasoning). There are many ways to know in addition to reason such as through emotion, sense perception or authority, but my interest here is in the development of reason.
Reasoning consists of the human capacity to establish and verify facts and can be distinguished from intuition, the capacity to acquire knowledge without the use of reason or inference. The three primary educational mediums for the development of these argument skills have been: oral, written and web-based discussions. ReadRank Index. By Alan Jacobson, Editor & Publisher TweenTribune & TeenTribune he Common Core identified six computer-based tools for measuring text complexity.
The authors said: “Because of the limits of each of the tools, new or improved ones are needed quickly if text complexity is to be used effectively in the classroom and curriculum.” Why the urgency? Infor.Text Research. Nell K.
Duke We should not wait to address this problem until students reach late elementary, middle, and high school, when learning from text is a cornerstone of the curriculum. Evernote.Penultimate. Visual Dictionary Online. Appreciating Hemingway: ELA 9-12 Afternoon Session. The Hemingway classic, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” was center stage during Tuesday’s 9-12 ELA afternoon session. The story illustrated to teachers, coaches and administrators the greater value involved in the process of close, analytic reading. During discussions, it was said that one or two well-chosen short stories that are read deeply would be sufficient to teach a variety of literary techniques. As a bonus, some joked, they have a newfound appreciation for Hemingway. Common Core Instruction: Making a Claim Using Two Texts with Similar Themes. Find a Book - Lexile Framework for Reading.
Find a Book - Lexile Framework for Reading. 6 Alternatives To Bloom's Taxonomy For Teachers - This post is updated from an article we published in April. At the end of the day, teaching is about learning, and learning is about understanding. And as technology evolves to empower more diverse and flexible assessments forms, constantly improving our sense of what understanding looks like–during mobile learning, during project-based learning, and in a flipped classroom–can not only improve learning outcomes, but just might be the secret to providing personalized learning for every learner.
This content begs the question: why does one need alternatives to the established and entrenched Bloom’s? Because Bloom’s isn’t meant to be the alpha and the omega of framing instruction, learning, and assessment. So with apologies to Bloom (whose work we covered recently), we have gathered five alternatives to his legendary, world-beating taxonomy, from the TeachThought Simple Taxonomy, to work from Marzano to Fink, to the crew at Understanding by Design. Reading Like a Historian: Contextualization. Dok-depth-of-knowledge.jpg 756×567 pixels.
Website CC Text Complexity Series Burkins and Yaris. Webinars - Patricia Davis Webinar Archives. Common Core State Standards Webinars Teaching to the Rigor of the Common Core State Standards Recorded May 13, 2013 This webinar examines the effect of the Common Core State Standards on instructional rigor. In this session, Davis explains how instructional rigor in the standards isn't about more or harder work but the integration of complex thinking skills. Examples of specific instructional strategies are included as teachers examine the critical practices that they will need to meet the rigor of the standards. Resources Addressing the Role of Text Complexity in the Common Core Recorded April 10, 2013 Are you prepared to teach to the rigors of the Common Core State Standards? This webinar will help prepare teachers to deliver lessons that support the student learning expectations set in the Common Core standards. The Greatest Books: The Best Nonfiction Books of All Time - 1 to 50.
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