Reading, Writing, and Social Studies Ideas / Daily 5/CAFE. Books That Build Community - The Book Whisperer. Reading, Writing, and Social Studies Ideas / Free Comprehension Strategy Posters. Teaching Stuff / WritersWorkshop Cheat Sheet. Maureen Devlin. Blogging Is the New Persuasive Essay. As an English teacher, I’ve had numerous conversations with college professors who lament the writing skills of their first year students.
But not all writing. Most students are capable of solid expository writing. It’s their skill with persuasive writing that’s the problem. Specifically, they’re weak at writing a thesis statement that can be argued. I spend three years teaching my high school students how to write a persuasive essay. Part of the problem is that our current school systems — and not just in Canada — aren’t great at producing independent thinkers.
So for three years, I write for them, and with them. The truth is lately I’ve come to question the point of much of this. Blogging is a different beast While traditional essay writing may not help alleviate this situation, I think blogging can. For one, the paragraphing is different. Instead, blog paragraphs tend to be shorter. Sometimes a paragraph is one simple sentence, used for emphasis. Another thing is the thesis statement. Reading, Writing, and Social Studies Ideas / Daily 5. Lessons with Laughter: Reading & Writing Notebooks. My students use their reading and writing notebooks daily during our Daily 5/CAFE block.
I made these notebooks for them a few weeks into the school year and am SO happy with them! My students love that they each had a unique binder and a place to store all things reading and writing related! I knew I wanted to make reading and writing binders for my students, but I didn't want to have to go out and buy brand new binders. Luckily, in our teacher supply room I found a box of white binders that had just been donated to our school! They were not in the best condition, but I made do with what I had! So here is what I started off with: I got this wonderful pad of animal print paper from Michael's with my 40% off coupon!
Then I cut the paper so that there was a piece to fit in the front slot of the binder and a small, narrow slip for the side. GUYS READ. Listening is a great way to experience a story.
Go to Guys Listen to check out more. Welcome to the Guys Read Virtual Vault of Good Books. This is the place to come if you’re looking for something to get a guy reading. We’ve collected recommendations from teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, parents, and guys themselves. These are the books that guys have said they like. Important Note: These are not the only good books in the world. Reading Response Journals. Happy Monday!
Is March flying by as fast for you as it is for us?? I wanted to write and tell you about how we have our students complete their nightly reading. Last year we decided that we were finished with having the students complete a reading log. We felt like the students were not reading like they should be. Changing Rules of the Literacy Club. I was thrilled and excited to see this months issue of Educational Leadership devoted to conversations about literacy and what being literate means in a global, digital space.
As I devoured the issue, I reflected on my own literacy evolution. I learned early on what it took become a member of what Frank Smith called the "Literacy Club" . Acceptance and membership was defined then by the thickness of the book, the speed of the tongue,and amount one's brain could hold (at least until test time rolled around.) Comprehension was something that happened when the work with words was done. I read differently now. Good Education Ideas / Summarizing Strategy called "the incredible shrinking notes". Digital Writing Tools. I have assembled a collection of tools which break the mold of traditional writing and use the power of the digital medium to create multimodal, interactive texts. Please add more examples in the comments, I want to keep collecting tools which can help to recreate what writing looks like in the digital medium. These tools move beyond just digitizing words and pictures, pushing digital writing to more creative levels.
Add Movement and Scale: Prezi – – if you are stuck in the serial, linear model that writing in a word processor or presentation tool can create, try using the presentation tool Prezi to write a story. Prezi allows for text, image, video, and sound to be grouped and scaled. The Blank Canvas: Assessment & Evaluation / revamped blooms taxonomy. Using comic books (like ‘The Avengers’) to get kids to read. Posted at 12:32 PM ET, 05/05/2012 May 05, 2012 04:32 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost Parents and teachers struggling to get kids to read often overlook a major weapon in the literacy arsenal: comic books.
Yes, “Archie,” “Superman,” “The Avengers” and “The Adventures of Tintin” are all great vehicles for getting a reluctant reader to learn to love the power of the written word. And since today is Free Comic Book Day, and the movie “The Avengers” was just released, it is as good a time as any — and probably better — to make this point. Ron Ackins, 29, of Philadelphia, checks out back issues of comics at Fat Jack’s Comicrypt in Philadelphia on Friday. A newspaper blackout poem. The snatch was a fluke move abandoned denied for fun and fickle income that power It was just the only option we had. feel really weird Still it took risk © Mary Lee Hahn, 2012 Poem #7, National Poetry Month 2012 I never should have let myself wander into the poetry section at Barnes and Noble yesterday.
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