Building Problem Solving Activities That Use Technology. Chart.png 875×688 pixels. OER Review: Report - Digital Learning Department @ OSPI. ANNOTEXTING. 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. Further conversations centered around the creation of text-dependent questions (TDQs). Among the topics addressed were common mistakes made when developing TDQs, including: background knowledge questionshunt and peckscavenger huntuniversal truth“according to the text”too many “one-offs” Just as important was the guide to creating TDQs (soon to appear on EngageNY.org).
Participants practiced this skill on the Hemingway story and came up with TDQs of their own. Tips To Have Students Ask Better Questions. Teaching Channel. It’s time to kick off our summer playlists and this week we’re offering you a series of videos that will help you to see what it actually looks like to teach nonfiction.
For so many of us, wrapping our heads around this focus of the Common Core State Standards can feel enigmatic. But once you see it in action, I know you’ll gain confidence in how this can look in your classroom too. Over the past few weeks I’ve been working with a lot of teachers during professional learning times, with an emphasis on this very topic: making nonfiction more clear.
From my own classroom and through this work, I’ve latched onto two big ideas. Context. Analyzing Texts: Overview of a Lesson Series You can start with the overview video and then move on to the three separate lessons that provide a detailed look at Ms. Notetaking Apps - a comparison of some popular ones. Notetaking apps are a great way to get organized and keep track of everything electronically.
There are a lot of different ones out there, so I thought I would go through some of the more popular ones and list some of the features they have. Click on the links for more information on each one also. 1. Evernote - this is the note taking app that I use the most. It is free, available on all platforms (web, Mac, iOS, Windows, Android, webOS, and more), easy to use, full featured and high quality. Kindergarten CC writing guide. Scaffolding Academic Writing to Meet CCSS. As an English teacher, you'd have to be living under a rock not to know that the Common Core Standards require students to do a lot of close reading and text analysis supported by evidence from those texts in their writing.
As an English teacher I have said, "Include evidence in your essay. " more often than the Math teacher down the hall has said, "Show your work. " Until recently, getting students to actually include text evidence in their academic writing was practically a moon shot. Some over achieving students would try, but most wouldn't bother to go back and sift through the text to find the sentence or two that supported their nebulous thesis. But now, thanks to a simple Google Form, my students gather oodles of text evidence, do a preliminary analysis of it, and create a resource they can all use.
How Evidence Gathering Works: We have been reading Emerson, Thoreau, Gandhi and Dr. 122463-Rigor_Handout_Grade_7_ELA_Lesson. 122463-CCSS_Text_complexity_FINAL_webinar_slides. 122463-CCSS_Text_complexity_FINAL_webinar_slides. English Companion Ning - Where English teachers go to help each other. Kelly Gallagher – Resources. Part of the reason my students have such a hard time reading is because they bring little prior knowledge and background to the written page.
They can decode the words, but the words remain meaningless without a foundation of knowledge. To help build my students’ prior knowledge, I assign them an "Article of the Week" every Monday morning. The Reading & Writing Project CCSS. Based on long-term goals of college and career readiness for all students, as well as global readiness, the Common Core State Standards call for a general ramping-up of expectations for students at all levels, and specifically an attention to higher-level thinking skills as they play out in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
The TCRWP has studied the CCSS closely in order to understand their infrastructure, locate the standards that enable a host of other proficiencies, and adjust curricular plans in order to address potential instructional gaps. Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Chris Lehman authored Pathways to the Common Core to help school districts rally to the challenges and opportunities the CCSS provide. Throughout our staff development, our leadership and specialty courses, conference days with teachers and school leaders, and institutes, the TCRWP aims to share information, insight and methods pertaining to the CCSS. Writing Workshop. What makes good writing. December 15, 2011 by Dr.
Crazy So I spent the day reading the writing of my graduate students, and I’d estimate that over the past two weeks I’ve probably read somewhere around 700 pages of student writing of all levels (freshmen through gen ed through majors through grad students), and I probably have about two hundred more pages of student writing to go before I can call it a day on this semester. (And no, I’m not exaggerating. Welcome to the life of an English professor. Teaching Writing- Approaches & Activities. Primary CC writing A Close Look at the Common Core Expectations for Primary Writers (Part 1) Common_core_standards_ela__continuum_612__writing_20110627_130451_52. Response: Best Ways to Prepare Our Students for CCSS in Language Arts - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo. (This is the first post in a two-part series on this topic) Mary Lou Baker asked: "How can we best prepare our students for the common core in language arts?
" I have been no fan of the Common Core standards (see The Best Articles Sharing Concerns About Common Core Standards). However, one of the key lessons I learned in my nineteen year community organizing career was that, though we should always recognize the tension inherent in "the world as we'd like it to be" and "the world as it is," living in the former seldom leads to success in the latter. The Common Core is the reality for most of us, and I've begun collecting the most useful resources for implementing them. Response: Best Ways to Prepare Our Students for CCSS in Language Arts - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo.