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Follow the directions already implemented for the TCRWP running records. New York City Measures of Student Learning (MoSL) New York City schools that have chosen TCRWP Running Records as part of their MoSL plan for ELA: click one of the following links to browse or download specific, required materials for the beginning and end-of-year MoSL assessments. Important Note About Instructional Implications of TCRWP MoSL Running Records Download ALL Measure of Student Learning files Browse ALL Measure of Student Learning files Fiction Reading Level Assessments The TCRWP offers a set of informal reading inventories for narrative texts which correlates to the Fountas and Pinnell system for leveling books. Browse Fiction Reading Assessments By Level (A - Z), with Running Records Level Conversions Chart Support Materials for Fiction Reading Level Assessments.
What Works Clearinghouse. Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Department of Education. Corbett Harrison's Always Write Website...A Gifted & Talented Notebook Challenge! As a kid, I had a book by Fred Gwynne called A Chocolate Moose for Dinner.
Mr. Gwynne (who also played Herman Munster on TV's The Munsters) created a book of cartoons based on homophones, which are differently spelled words that sound alike but have different meanings. Here are nine sets of pretty common homophones. Can you come up with the missing word on the last column without any help? If you can't, come ask me in class! What Fred Gwynne did for his book is he took a homophone he'd thought of (moose and mousse, for example), and he transposed them; normally, we'd think of chocolate mousse being served with our dinner, so he asked, "What if it was chocolate moose instead?
" Looking at my list of homophones above, ask yourself these crazy questions? Instead of a bill saying payment due, what if it said payment dew? If you can think like this, you could make a great imitation of Fred Gwynne's book. But my challenge is to do something a little more original! Return to the Top of the Page. EasyCBM.com. Young Adults’ Choices. Education Levels Up! – A noObs guide to Gamifying your Classroom. A new way to manage classroom instruction is slowly creeping into the world of education: “Gamification“.
Gamifying simply means turning the class content and the way students learn into a game with a rewards system, quests, experience levels, and healthy competition. Gamifying isn’t anything new; businesses and social websites have been using “gaming” to attract and keep users coming back for years now. Here is a short list of groups already gaming: Facebook – Farmville! Need I say more.Starbucks – Buy coffee – get more coffeeKhan Academy – Earn badges as you learn math! However, gaming is all around you all the time; you have been participating in games under your very nose! People dedicate hours everyday trying to promote themselves up these virtual scales and reach new levels. 1) Badges - These will be the rewards for completing tasks, doing homework, coming to class everyday, etc.These badges are easy and fun to make if you use a little imagination and your resources. 5) Quests!