Children's Book. The Ten-Minute Play: Encouraging Original Response to Challenging Texts. Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice After reading Beloved or another suitable novel, students review some of the critical elements of drama, focusing on differences between narrative and dramatic texts, including point of view.
They discuss the role of conflict in the novel, and work in small groups to search the novel for a passage they can adapt into a ten-minute play. The Ten-Minute Play: Encouraging Original Response to Challenging Texts.
Teaching With Podcasts. Home › Professional Development › Strategy Guides Strategy Guide Podcasts are serial recordings, posted regularly online.
Robert Rozema describes a podcast as "a blog in audio form" (31). Basically, producing podcasts is the technology-based equivalent of oral storytelling. Much as oral stories and news have been shared with listeners by medieval bards, Native American storytellers, and others, podcasters share news and stories with their listeners, who download the files online. Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us.
If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Students begin this lesson by discussing what makes a good, vivid story and creating a working checklist of the criteria for a good story. Back to top War of the Worlds Travelogue: Students can use this online tool to explore background information about the 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. Plot Diagram Tool: This online tool allows students to graphically map the events in a story.
Further Reading. Sense, Sensibility and Sentences: Examining and Writing Memorable Lines. Overview | What can a single sentence accomplish?
In this lesson, students share favorite sentences, look closely at what makes them great, paraphrase them, then evaluate the results. They also work with sentences that are “mini-narratives” and write some of their own, before writing full-fledged short stories based on other students’ sentences. Materials | Student journals, computer with Internet access (optional), index cards. Blogging the National Day on Writing. Elizabeth LeitzellA fifth-grade class at the Equity Project Charter School in New York City posted thoughts on #whyIwrite to Twitter on Monday through the class account, TEPTigers.
Today is the National Day on Writing (yes, it’s a real thing), and we’ll be celebrating — and updating this post — all day long. Backstory: A couple of weeks ago, along with our wonderful collaborators, the National Writing Project, Figment and Edutopia, we started asking the world to post messages to Twitter today with the hashtag #whyIwrite.
What We Eat, Where We Sleep: Documenting Daily Life. In August, two slide shows were published on NYTimes.com that both seemed so useful for classrooms that we saved them until the school year began to present together in a lesson.
On the Well blog, Tara Parker-Pope featured 15 photos from a book called “What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets” that has become an exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston. Here’s how she described it: In an unusual project, Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio, a photographer and writer, traveled the world collecting photos and stories about what people eat in a day. They documented the meager meals of a Masai goat herder during a drought, the fast-food diet of an American long-haul trucker and a veritable feast of lamb kebabs and other foods set out by an Iranian bread baker.
Meanwhile, the Lens blog introduced 20 photos from a book called “Where Children Sleep”: Mr. Before Viewing. Using Opening Lines From the Magazine's 'Lives' Column as Writing Prompts. Illustration by Will Bryant.
Sticker illustration by Dan Cassaro.A recent edition of The New York Times Magazine. This student writing challenge was inspired by the “Lives” column found there weekly.Go to the Lives index » We’re celebrating Oct. 20, the National Day on Writing, in all kinds of ways, and this is the first. Along with Figment, an online community where teenagers and young adults come together to discover, create and share new reading and writing, we’re inviting students to use the first lines we’ve collected below — all taken from the “Lives” column, the long-running essay series that appears in the back of The New York Times Magazine each week — and use them as jumping-off points for their own stories, essays, plays, memoirs or poetry.
Rummaging for Fiction: Using Found Photographs and Notes to Spark Story Ideas. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us.
National Day on Writing: A Celebration. Figment.com Update | Oct. 21: The National Day on Writing was a great success.
Thanks to the thousands who participated; we did our best to chronicle the remarkable response throughout. Why do you write?