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Guess Your Feedback I am currently reading Embedded Formative Assessment by Dylan William (2011). I came across these sentences about providing feedback on students’ writing: … instead of writing comments in the students’ notebooks, [the teacher] did so on strips of paper. Each group of four students received their four essays and the four strips of paper, and the group had to decide which comment belonged with which essay. (pg. 130) That is so smart, isn’t it? First, I collected a group of five opinion essays from a fifth-grade teacher. Click to enlarge Or: Next, the five students met in a group, and each student was given the five pieces of feedback. Their job was to read the feedback statements and, through a group discussion, decide which feedback they thought went with their own essay. Here is some of what I overheard: Nolan: I think the last one is mine because I tend to do run-on sentences. Arianna: This is mine. Leilanni: That one isn’t mine. Like this: Like Loading...

A List of The Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers 1- ZimmerTwins It is all about creative storytelling. ZimmerTwins is a web2.0 tool that allows students to give vent to their imaginative powers and exercise their storytelling skills from early stages to advances ones. 2- Digital Story Telling in The Classroom This section provides resources and materials for teachers to use with their students in storytelling. It helps students personalize their learning and perform better. Students can use these materials to create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their stories. 3- Story Bird This is an awesome website that allows students and teachers to create short art inspired stories to read, share or print out. 4- Someries Someries is a fantastic storytelling site . 5- PicLits This is another awesome website where students can choose a picture and start drawing or writing a text on it to create a story. 7- Capzles This is where you and your students can create rich multimedia stories with videos, photos, music, blogs and documents.

Be a better writer in 15 minutes: 4 TED-Ed lessons on grammar and word choice There’s no denying it — the English language can be mighty tricky. When writing a paper, a novel or even an e-mail, you might look at a sentence you just wrote and think, “Is that comma supposed to be there?” or “Is that really the best word to use?” Fear not! First, let’s look at the often-confusing comma. What about the Oxford comma? Now, take an adjective such as “implacable” or a verb like “proliferate” or even another noun “crony,” and add a suffix, such as “-ity” or “-tion” or “-ism.” Finally, when it comes to good writing, don’t take the easy route!

Adventures in Guided Journaling: Springtime doodles - part 3: A new inspiration page! As soon as those springtimedoodles arranged themselves into a page border, I thought it might be fun to add them to an inspiration page. This one is all about joy. The good stuff, big and small. The stuff that delights you in the moment and the stuff that nourishes you over a lifetime. The thing I like best about lists is that the more I write, the more things pop to mind. As always, there's a colour-free version . . . and a colourful one: You'll find them here (colour-free) and here (colourful).

Put yourself in the picture This is a speaking task that encourages students to empathise with other people and try to understand them better. The activity uses a number of visuals of migrants and the students have to imagine they are the person in the picture. The activity is based on themes from the British Council OPENCities project www.opencities.eu PreparationDownload the worksheet with the images of the people and make enough copies so that each students can have one image. Images worksheet (pdf 313k) Procedure Choose one of the images to model the procedure.

Laura Candler's Writing Files Welcome to the Writing folder of Laura Candler's online file cabinet! On this page you'll find a variety of writing prompts and other files related to writing instruction. Most of these activities are free and don't include complete directions; if you are interested in writing lessons that include complete directions and printables, please visit my Mini Pack page. If you're looking for poetry writing activities, visit the Poetry Page for books, lesson ideas and free printables! These freebies are PDF files, so you'll need Adobe Acrobat to download them. Featured Writing Freebies Writing Prompts Note: Click on the image below for complete Character Bio directions as well as graphic organizers, other biography topics, and a rubric. Common Core Aligned Writing Mini Packs Other Writing Resources Free Student Book Publishing Program Looking for information on the Studentreasures free student book publishing project?

Letter to future self stella savvidou | En lärare under ständig utveckling Creative Writing Prompts I found this website quite by chance. It’s one of these sites that you definitely want to bookmark as it comes in very handy when you want to do some writing practice, need to come up with a good story starter or some prompts for a five-minute writing activity and your inspiration has run dry. Don’t worry! It happens in the best families! The site is called Creative Writing Prompts. Right now, they have 346 prompts and as you can read on their page you just have to choose a number, point your cursor to this number, read the prompt and then write your story. Some suggestions to use this website: A quick writing activity in class.

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Excellent Story Writing Apps for Students July 31, 2015 Below is a short collection of some interesting iPad apps students can use to help them with their writing and more specifically, outlining, drafting and writing stories. Some of these apps are featured here for the first time but for more options on digital storytelling apps check out this page. 1- The Brainstormer ‘The Brainstormer is kindling for creative minds. A tactile tool to randomly combine a plot, a subject and a setting or style, the Brainstormer provides a moment of inspiration for writers, painters, or any creative mind. 2- Story Liner ‘Whether you are writing for film, television, the stage, the next great novel or the next non-fiction bestseller, organizing your story is key. 3- StorySkeleton ‘Ideas strike wherever you are. 4- A Novel Idea ‘A Novel Idea is the premier tool for plotting your story and recording bursts of inspiration. 5- Character ‘Knowing who your characters are, is the most important part of the writing process. 6- Roy’s Story Cubes

Writing about Food and Culture | High School Writing Projects Do you have a teen gourmet or budding chef in the house? Have any of your kids traveled overseas? These writing activities invite them to explore recipes, describe travel experiences with food, or write a restaurant review. Encourage your high schoolers to explore their culinary passion or hobby with one of these projects that encourages writing about food and culture. This article contains affiliate links for books we think your family will enjoy. Writing Project: American As Apple Pie A well-rounded study of a geographic region or period of history can include maps, literature, art—even food! Search recipe files, family cookbooks, specialty cookbooks, and online sources to find some recipes that are uniquely American. If possible, choose a theme that ties into your current history or geography studies. Once you’ve chosen your topic and gathered your recipes, prepare three of them. Finally, make a booklet of your 10 recipes, designing or decorating it to match your theme. By Kim Kautzer

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