Lessons in Conveying Complex Ideas with Simple Graphics from the World's Best Information Designers. By Maria Popova What Frank Zappa’s life has to do with e-waste, whale songs, and the black market for body parts.
Drb_ccd_ri73lesson_parti_ru1. NF Essay: Pleasure Domes with Parking, Aaron Gilbreath. The Court of Flowers, postcard.
We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2012 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! Because my grandfather owned a men’s clothing store and my dad briefly worked for him, I spent a lot of my childhood in malls. Hanging around malls is already a tradition in Phoenix, Arizona, where I grew up.
Making Sense of Common Core: Textual Evidence. The first standard under Reading for Literature and Reading for Informational Text is the same.
This standard focuses on textual evidence. I like to refer to this standard as the How do you know? Standard. Writing Across the Curriculum With The Literacy Design Collaborative - Getting Smart by Tom Vander Ark - CCSS, common core, writing. Email Share February 20, 2013 - by Tom Vander Ark 1 Email Share The Literacy Design Collaborative is a network of teachers and partners “building out a template-based approach to the literacy demands of college and the workplace, as defined by the Common Core State Standards .”
The concept is to give teachers tools (mostly offline but soon to be online) that enable them to transform the Common Core into classroom action by giving teacher the literacy resources to build student’s college ready literacy skills through their existing content lens. ELA Lesson Sequence for the Common Core: Saying More With Less.
6 Reading Rules for the Common Core. Teaching Students To Use Textual Evidence. The Essay, an Exercise in Doubt. Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing.
Close-reading-ms-clinton-ela. Susan Pimentel: The Role of Fiction in the High School English Language Arts Classroom. Recently, there has been some confusion regarding the role of fiction and literature in the Common Core State Standards. The confusion stems from the fact that the Standards call for increasingly large amounts of informational text to be read, and the mistaken belief that this means that literature and fiction should take a back seat in the secondary ELA classroom. It's important to be clear at the outset that the Common Core Standards apply to a broad spectrum of disciplines: English Language Arts, and literacy in History/Social Studies, and Science and Technical Subjects.
Balancing Informational Text and Literature. This is a 10 minute video which features a discussion between NYS Commissioner of Education John B.
King Jr., David Coleman (contributing author to the Common Core) and Kate Gerson (a Sr. Fellow with the Regents Research Fund) addressing Shift 1 – PK-5: Balancing Informational Text and Literature. WordItOut - Generate word clouds (and make custom gifts) CCSS Tip: Week 6—Matching Readers with Text. Socratic Seminars. Power Standards or Why the Common Core is Like a Second Marriage. Recently, I received a note from an educator trying to develop “power standards” for the common core.
Power standards is a concept developed by Doug Reeves and Larry Ainsworth. Their idea was that school districts needed to identify the most important curriculum standards – the ones students really needed to learn—and then to prioritize those standards to ensure maximum learning. Most state standards have been long lists of semi-random, undifferentiated skills, usually quite uneven in grain-size. So this approach made sense. The common core standards, however, are relatively brief (“fewer, bigger, better”) and one standard is really no more important than another. Coping with Common Core. Academic Conversations. Five Core Academic Conversation Skills This section introduces five core conversation skills and their importance for learning.
While there are other communication skills, we have identified five key skills that, when developed over time in school, provide students with a foundation for thinking and communicating. Skill1 - Elaborating, clarifying, and questioning Elaborating provides more important information about a topic or idea. 100 Words High School Students Should Know. 2 Simple Ways To Use QR Codes In Education 7.84K Views 0 Likes.
CC ELA Explained Standard by Standard. ELA misconceptions: informational text percentage. Adoption of the Common Core State Standards Initiative opens the door for ideas, not necessarily because of the content of standards — the Brown Center on Education Policy pointed out that standards reform alone means diddly squat to outcomes — but because educators have another opportunity to network ideas.
There is no time as potentially transformative as the present. That open door, however, can welcome a slew of agendas being pushed and uncertainty-driven decisions being made. My point in this post is not to defend or disparage the CCSS — that decision is yours — but instead give you tools to avoid being swept into any one of many currents of “alignment” rushing downstream. In idea making, everyone has a right to present an approach. Top 10 books That Had Me At Hello by JoEllen McCarthy. Tough question, are you a geek or a nerd?
Books That Build Community - The Book Whisperer. Free reading resources for teachers. Novels to Know: Middle School Edition. As part of our preparation for Common Core standards our district asked the librarians to put together a list of noteworthy novels that would help meet the higher standards for text complexity and reading level. My two middle grade partners, Monique German and Kristen Hearne, and I will be putting together the list for our level. Top 10 Picture Books for the Secondary Classroom. As a teacher of future English teachers, I am always trying to open my students’ eyes to the wonder and power of the picture book, both as an art form and as a terrific instructional tool for the secondary classroom. Being students of capital-L literature, my teacher-babies sometimes forget to consider these compact and powerful texts.
It’s the best way I know to get numerous, diverse and COMPLETE texts into students’ minds. It’s hard enough to squeeze out the time in the overcrowded middle and high school English curriculum to read young adult and classic novels, but with picture books, you can read the entire work aloud, model the focus you want students to concentrate on, let them explore the craft, have the discussion, and even try it out in their own writing–all in one period! So here, in no particular order: my top ten.
10 books for high school summer reading. Students might not enrich their minds inside a classroom over summer break, but that doesn’t mean enrichment can’t be found in one of the original 24-7 tools for learning: books. Be it on a Kindle, Nook, iPad, or the printed page, books keep students’ minds stimulated, encourage creativity and innovation, and allow for higher-order thinking.