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Farm Stand Vegetable Skewers with Rosemary-Dijon Vinaigrette Recipe. Nutritional information Serves 6 Nothing showcases the flavor of fresh-picked summer vegetables better than a great homemade marinade featuring lemon and fresh rosemary and a quick sear on the grill.

Farm Stand Vegetable Skewers with Rosemary-Dijon Vinaigrette Recipe

Rosemary-Dijon Vinaigrette 4 Tbs. sherry vinegar 4 Tbs. Dijon mustard 2 small shallots, minced (3 Tbs.) 2 Tbs. lemon juice 1 Tbs. grated lemon zest ⅔ cup olive oil 2 Tbs. chopped fresh rosemary Vegetable Skewers 6 small red potatoes, quartered 24 sugar snap peas 24 white or cremini mushrooms, stems removed 1 red bell pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces 1 red onion, cut into 1-inch pieces 1 medium yellow squash, cut into 12 rounds 1 medium zucchini, cut into 12 rounds ¾ cup Rosemary-Dijon Vinaigrette 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. July/August 2009 p.44. Rhythm Reading Exercises. 12-8 Basic Rhythm Practice.

Rhythm Reading Exercises

English Lessons. ESL Lessons - Heroes. Where Reading Takes Me: Literacy Toolkit. 5 great ice-breakers in five days: #2 Idea Sprint… Welcome to part two of my Tyson Seburn-inspired five-day Blogathon.

5 great ice-breakers in five days: #2 Idea Sprint…

For more detail, please visit yesterday’s post. The idea sprint The Idea Sprint is a fantastic way to either review topics you’ve already covered, or brainstorm what learners already know. Also, it offers some energizing fun in the process. What you need… You need something learners can write on. How to… Divide the class into teams.Give them a topic.They will have 30 seconds (or more) to brainstorm and list as many ideas as they can.Remind them they cannot speak.Each student must write ideas on the board.The team with the most ideas after the given time wins.Get the winning team to present their ideas.Ask remaining teams to add extra ideas and/or correct any mistakes the winning team made.

Tips… Write an example on the board to show what you’re looking for.Try to plan the activity so the ideas they came up with lead in to the main part of the lesson. Energize… - Create Your Story With My Story Book. 0 Comments September 29, 2014 By: Özge Karaoglu Sep 27.

- Create Your Story With My Story Book

Support the Global Read Aloud! The Global Read Aloud has connected more than 200,000 students throughout the world.

Support the Global Read Aloud!

Here is your chance to not only show your Global Read Aloud pride, but also support the project. Every penny earned will be spent on books. Global Read Aloud 2014. Writing prompts. Collaboration Web Tools. English grammar. New National Curriculum, primary, secondary, KS1, KS2. How to Tell Stories with Maps. School of Data has published a good round-up of narrative mapping platforms.

How to Tell Stories with Maps

The article includes a few examples of good story maps and explores some of the mapping libraries which can be used to create interactive maps to annotate or narrate a story. Seven Ways to Create a Storymap reviews popular narrative mapping libraries such as Knight Lab's StoryMap JS, Esri StoryMaps and CartoDB's Odyssey.js. It even mentions my own story map demo created using waypoints.js with Leaflet, JourneyMap. One of the examples listed in the School of Data article is new to me.

LeafletPlayback is a very neat Leaflet library which allows you to animate GPS Tracks, in the form of GeoJSON objects, on a Leaflet map. Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Some favourite nonfiction titles for older readers (List 2) It’s Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday!

Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Some favourite nonfiction titles for older readers (List 2)

This is Week 2 of 3 where I will be sharing thirty titles (ten at a time) of my favourite nonfiction books for older readers. The first ten are here. My post last week goes into more detail of why I wanted to put together these three lists. 5702-predator-showdown-1383093531.jpg (JPEG Image, 1408 × 1800 pixels) - Scaled (55%) Children's Book Review: Feathers and Fools by Mem Fox, Author, Nicholas Wilton, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (36p) ISBN 978-0-15-200473-6. Grammar. English Writing. English grammar exercises. Exercises. Grammar. Grammar. English grammar. Grammar. The 6 Levels Of Bloom's Taxonomy, Explained With Active Verbs. 10 creative ways to teach English that deliver outstanding results. As a creative school, with a track record in fantastic English results, we are often asked what our specific approach is: how do we teach through the arts yet manage to maintain such high expectations from all our pupils?

10 creative ways to teach English that deliver outstanding results

I'd like to share some of these approaches with you: Immersion activities How can children access stories, poems and other texts if their minds and imaginations not fully engaged? We have found that immersing children in a range of creative activities before reading the text means that they are fully prepared, and excited, about the reading journey ahead of them. Through painting, music composition, a film project, in role drama or sculpture, the kids have had a chance to share vocabulary, ideas and concepts which gives their reading fresh meaning and purpose. Clear purpose. Greek Myth Comix Presents Homer's Iliad & Odyssey Using Stick-Man Drawings. The next time some know-it-all moralist blames any number of social ills on violent video games or action films, ask them if they’d rather kids stick to the classics.

Greek Myth Comix Presents Homer's Iliad & Odyssey Using Stick-Man Drawings

When they invariably reply in the affirmative, you can smugly direct their attention to Greek Myth Comix’s astonishing infographic detailing the multitude of gruesome killings in the Iliad. Homer’s epic unflinchingly describes, for example, in graphic detail, the death of Lycon, who in Book 16 has a sword thrust through his neck: “nothing held but a piece of skin, and from that, Lycon’s head dangled down.” And if you’ve held on to your lunch, you may be interested to know the grisly circumstances of the other two candidates for “grimmest death.” Just below, see a section of the comic celebrating “stand out performances in battle.” English Grammar Reference and Exercises. 7 Web-based Tools for Creating Short Video Stories. Writing Across the Curriculum - WeAreTeachers - Zaner-Bloser.

Topics for Debate in English. Long Live the Girls! Long Live the Girls (LLTG) is a girls' empowerment through creative writing project based in Hawassa, Ethiopia.

Long Live the Girls!

We create safe spaces for girls and women to speak out and write with freedom. Our unique approach demystifies gender policies through the literary arts in a creative cycle of reading, writing, analyzing, performing, and publishing original works. LLTG is a partnership between Break Arts, an international arts & education collaborative, and Action for Youth and Community Change (AYCC) a youth development organization.

LLTG was founded by Kidist Tariku, executive director of AYCC, and Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein, Break Arts director. LLTG 2013 was a huge success. BBC Radio Scotland - Poetry Postcards. Wonders of a Day......... on Blipfoto. Word chart - FunSubstance.com. Word Wall Presentation Template - Google Slides. Bianca Hewes. Four Fun Videos That Explain Complex Language Arts Ideas. Quick write - picture prompts on Pinterest. Home. Daily Writing Tips. Daily Grammar - Improve your writing with our free grammar lessons. 24 Entertaining Short Stories For Middle School. 24 Entertaining Short Stories For Middle School Reading in middle school is tricky, and it’s not simply a matter of decoding and fluency.

Middle school students are an interesting bunch, with rapid brain development, emerging identities, and a varied assortment of readiness, background knowledge, and maturity in any given classroom. This can make selecting short stories for middle school students a challenge. The following graphic may help. weareteachers.com, a treasure trove of teachers resources, put together the image below to help jumpstart your thinking. It is mostly classic stuff, but there are literally zero missteps here, with every story having literary value, from the suspense of “The Lottery” to the memorable characters of “Flowers for Algernon.” As for additions, we might suggest “Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor, though it’s likely better suited for 8th graders and above. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Daily Grammar - Improve your writing with our free grammar lessons. 6 iPad Apps for Creative Writing. Creative writing can be a daunting task for students who struggle to think of story ideas or who don't love the writing process. For kids who have trouble putting pen to paper, there are a handful of fantastic iPad apps that just might inspire them to tell a story. Your students will be able to gather ideas, brainstorm and publish writing straight from their tablet. For students at all levels, creative writing is an important part of English language arts curriculum. Wondrously Infinite Global Library. 10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports. Kelly Tenkely | TheApple.com The most dreaded word in school reading for students: book reports. Teachers assign them, viewing them as a necessary component of assessing reading comprehension. Resource: Our Top 3 Newspaper Generators. Getting pupils to write can be a challenge for teachers across the globe.

One of the key strategies to encourage writing is to provide a stimulus and purpose for the writing. Motivating pupils to produce a piece of work can be difficult, especially as children are still developing their skills, and busy comparing their work with the work of peers. - Analyze Your Writing With This Tool. HemingwayApp is a web tool to help you to analyze your writing, suggest changes and make your writing better. This web tool does a few pretty interesting things. You can write or copy/paste a text on the tool.

The web tool offers you some changes that will make your text better to read. Learn English. English grammar: A complete guide. Topics for Debate in English. Definitions and Examples. English grammar: A complete guide. Topics for Debate in English. 100 Exquisite Adjectives. By Mark Nichol. Browse the Digital Public Library of America. The Digital Public Library of America is a huge collection of digitized artifacts and exhibits from museums and libraries across the United States. Adverbs. The Story Museum - 1001 stories from around the world.

Literary Analysis Papers: How to read a poem. Use the guidelines below to learn how to read a poem and understand it. Fun With Words: Glossary of Linguistics and Rhetoric. Writing Fiction, Building blocks - Women Writers, Women Books : Women Writers. Prepare an AFTER-Duction for the Emcee! - NoSweatPublicSpeaking.com. Periodic Table of Storytelling. Exercises in Writing for Beginning Writers.

100 Exquisite Adjectives. 45 ways to avoid using the word 'very'. Writers Write is your one-stop resource for writers. Visual Dictionary, Visual Thesaurus. Daily Grammar - Improve your writing with our free grammar lessons. Vocabulary, Vocabulary Games - www.myvocabulary.com. Five iPad Apps That Help Students Start Creative Stories. In the year that I taught language arts before moving into the social studies department one of the challenges that my students faced in writing short stories was coming up with ideas to get started. Let's Get Physical: Reading and Movement. Visual Writing Prompts.

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Poetry. Writing. Reading. English. Authors Who Skype with Classes & Book Clubs (for free!) Music. Google Drive and Docs for Teachers 2012. Information Fluency & Forensics. Good-to-Go Projects for 2014. 48 Ultra-Cool Summer Sites for Kids and Teachers. The Best Sites That Students Can Use Independently And Let Teachers Check On Progress. 5 Online Games That Teach Kids the Art of Persuasion. Free Summarizer, an online automatic tool to summarize any text or article - StumbleUpon. About.