Folktale Unit: The Princess and the Golden Shoes
Folktale Unit: The Princess and the Golden Shoes Grade Level(s): 1-2, 3-5 By: Debbie Haren, Preschool Teacher Language Arts activities to go with the story The Princess and the Golden Shoes. Objectives:
The Benefits Of Student-Led Blogging Projects – The Edublogger
Student blogging empowers students to take charge of their learning, gives their learning purpose while helping with reading, writing, digital citizenship, artistic, critical thinking, and social skills. Student blogging programs are often teacher-led. But it doesn’t need to be this way! Students can gain so much from student-led blogging projects. So I asked Noelle and Sagarika, Grade 8 Students, from The Badger Rock Times to tell us on their own words the benefits of their blogging project. About the Student-Led Blogging Project
Why You Should Start Classroom Blogging (and How to Do It)
There are plenty of reasons to begin classroom blogging with your learners. Aside from being a perfect way to exercise crucial writing and communication skills, it also promotes critical thinking. With classroom blogging conversation on your class content becomes broader since it provides your kids with an excellent peer-to-peer contact platform. It's liberating to share ideas and opinions that awaken your learners' passions. In addition to this, it also builds research and organizational skills. Here are a few other reasons why classroom blogging is good for learning in general:
Short Stories for Children
Does your family or class have a favorite short story in the public domain? Please send your suggestions to amlit.editor@gmail.com Looking for chapter books like The Wizard of Oz and Treasure Island? Enjoy our collection of chapter Books for Young Readers You might also like our whimsical Children's Poems, Yummy Stories and for learn-to-read fun, Pre-K Wordplay! Return to American Literature Home Page
Using Blogging as a Learning Tool
With the increased interest in introducing digital literacy skills in the classroom as a means of preparing students for the 21st century marketplace, our teaching and learning center has had more questions from faculty about using blogs as a teaching tool. The Innovative Instructor doesn’t advocate using technology for technology’s sake, but student blogging can be a way to achieve several learning outcomes for your course. CC Jeff Utecht: For example, blogs can be used to improve student writing, especially for developing skill in analysis and critique.
What Meaningful Writing Means for Students
Folks: The posting below looks at the results from the Meaningful Writing Project a study with over seven hundred seniors at three universities. It is by Michele Eodice, Anne Ellen Geller and Neal Lerner, and is from Peer Review, Winter, 2017, Vol. 19, No. 1. Peer Review is a publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities [ Copyright © 2017, all rights reserved.
17 Fun Games to Play in Spanish Class!
1. ARROZ CON PAN: Game of elimination played in a circle where the students chant “Arroz con pan (3x) y sal” then a number is called out and counted around the circle. 2. CIERTO - FALSO: A person (often the teacher) stands between the stands of the trees and calls out phrases related to the class's latest vocabulary. If the statement is true about the student, they must try to run to the other side without being tagged. (Example phrases: “Si te gusta comer helado.
An Analysis of Faculty Promotion of Critical Thinking and Peer Interaction within Threaded Discussions
An Analysis of Faculty Promotion of Critical Thinking and Peer Interaction within Threaded Discussions Alan Belcher, Barbara M. Hall, Kathleen Kelley, Keith L. Pressey
7 Steps to a Great Writing Workshop
Would you like to make your classroom a stimulating community of writers and learners? Set up a writing workshop! This instructional approach truly engages students by letting them write, read, interact, mentor, and take risks—all at their own pace. Follow these simple steps to create a writing workshop in your classroom.
Why our online discussion didn’t work – Architela Blog
“Why didn’t our online discussion work?” This is a depressingly common question in schools/universities and workplaces, when attempts are made to get people using online systems for collaboration and conversation. The idea is a good one: online environments offer great opportunities for people to get connected almost anywhere and any time to get ideas talked through and work accomplished. We’ve been hearing for years about the wonderful future that allows us to sit comfortably in our homes or cafes, engaging online instead of having to commute every day to an office or classroom and deal with other people face-to-face (often to have meetings cancelled because someone can’t be there). Moreover, hundreds of millions of us worldwide are already doing this every day through email, Twitter, Facebook and more.
The Current State of Educational Blogging 2016 – The Edublogger
Each year we conduct a survey on how educators are using blogs. Our goal is to document the trends in educational blogging. We started the annual survey because we’re frequently asked for detailed information to help educators: Convince school administrators to allow blogging.Understand the benefits of blogging and how blogs are used with students.Know more about which blogging platforms are commonly used by educators (and why). Here’s what you told us in 2016!
Writing Format Templates and a Free Guide
Introduction A Personal letter is sent from one individual to another individual or organisation in order to address matters of an informal nature. Examples of these can include; Apologies Thank you's Personal reference Congratulations Invitations Condolences They differ from formal types in that they can be used to express personal feelings and depending on the relationship between the sender and receiver do not require formal concise language.
