Ideas for English-Language Learners | Celebrating the End of the School Year Photo School calendars are different across the nation, so while classes may be in session for another two months where you teach, in another district, it’s time for prom, awards season and commencement. Below are some ideas for reflecting on the school year that can be adapted to wherever you are in the semester, and for students of any age and with any level of English proficiency. Since this is the final post in our English-Language Learner series for this school year, we also invite you to tell us, below, if you’d like to see “Ideas for E.L.L.’s” return next year. Portfolio-Making to End the School Year on a Positive Note Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize winner, has found that we tend to make future decisions based on the “peak-end rule” — that we primarily remember how particular events and time periods end, and that our “remembering selves” tend to focus on the best moments among them. Every Friday, Mr. Writing a Letter to Myself What are your best memories of this school year? Mr.
9/11 Post - Meg Cabot September 11th, 2013 Every year teachers let me know that this post has become part of their classroom 9/11 curriculum, so I will continue to post it every year. Here it is, for those who weren’t around that day: Meg’s 9/11 Diary 9/11/2001 was one of those rare days where sloth was rewarded. I got woken up in my apartment on 12th Street and 4th Avenue by a phone call from my friend Jen. “Look out your window,” Jen said. That is when I saw the smoke from the first plane. I called my husband’s office first thing. “What was happening?” Jen didn’t know. Was he all right? I couldn’t get through to him. It turned out this was due to the massive volume of calls going on in my part of the city that day. But I didn’t know that then. Sirens started up. 9/11/01 was a very, very nice day. Now all the firemen from the station across from my apartment building were rushing out to the fire downtown. Every last one of them would be dead in an hour. Weird, I thought. “Is he all right?” “I don’t know,” I said.
Describing photos (comparing, contrasting and speculating) You are going to practise language for; Describing photosComparing and contrasting photos (discussing similarities and differences)Speculating on what might be happeningReacting to photos (giving opinions) Discuss Look at the presentation. Follow the instructions and talk about some of the photos Write The language used here for comparing and contrasting / speculating is also useful for writing discussion / argument essays. Introduction - describe the situation / topic to be discussedCompare / contrast ideas (for and against / advantages and disadvantages)Speculate on solutions to problems raised by the questionConclusion - give an opinion Which pairs or groups of photos in the presentation could be used to demonstrate ideas for argument writing topics about education, technology, food, family, work, leisure, health, advertising etc? More Practice on May / Might / Could / Must / Can't
23 Of The Most Creative College Essay Prompts From 2014–2015 Trading Cards ReadWriteThink’s Trading Cards app allows kids and teens a unique way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters. Create trading cards for any number of categories, including: Fictional personReal personFictional placeReal placeObjectEventVocabulary word Each category has specific guiding questions for creating a dynamic, information-rich trading card. Part of the appeal of trading cards is being able to sort them into collections. Trading Cards is an educational app for all ages that adds creativity and fun to the learning process. Privacy: Your trading cards are private unless you decide to share them by e-mail. Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Highlighting Out-of-School Language Expertise with Pop Culture Dictionaries Grades 7 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Picture This: Student Created Online Vocabulary Flashcards Let the students be the vocabulary experts! Trading Card Creator
This I Believe Essay-Writing Guidelines We invite you to participate in this project by writing your own statement of personal belief. We understand how challenging this is—it requires intense self-examination, and many find it difficult to begin. To guide you through this process, we offer these suggestions: Tell a story about you: Be specific. Take your belief out of the ether and ground it in the events that have shaped your core values. Be brief: Your statement should be between 500 and 600 words. Name your belief: If you can’t name it in a sentence or two, your essay might not be about belief. Be positive: Write about what you do believe, not what you don’t believe. Be personal: Make your essay about you; speak in the first person. For this project, we are also guided by the original This I Believe series and the producers’ invitation to those who wrote essays in the 1950s. In introducing the original series, host Edward R.
Skrivmall saga Hur skriver man en sagal? Titta på skrivmallen nedan. Du kan även titta i fliken stödstrukturer för att få hjälp att bygga upp texten. Bilder: Rasmus 2015-2016 Essay Prompts | Promoting College Access We are pleased to share the 2015-2016 Essay Prompts with you. New language appears in italics: Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story. The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. The changes you see reflect the feedback and consensus of nearly 6000 individuals who responded to our recent survey.
Need more writing ideas for this year? Bookmark this blog series. Check out the six blog posts filled with teaching ideas and resources—written by teachers—in our Teaching Young Writers blog series. We partnered with WeAreTeachers to bring this quick-to-read, inspiring series to life. As you lesson plan and gather ideas for the year, you'll find • 5 peer conferencing strategies for revising and editing. • 10 grammar lessons to fix some mistakes that drive us crazy. • 25 anchor charts for teaching writing and more! Need more support with writing instruction? Request a sample of Strategies for Writers to see how this program develops these critical writing skills and strategies.
The Writing Assignment That Changes Lives : NPR Ed Why do you do what you do? What is the engine that keeps you up late at night or gets you going in the morning? Where is your happy place? What stands between you and your ultimate dream? Heavy questions. One researcher believes that writing down the answers can be decisive for students. He co-authored a paper that demonstrates a startling effect: nearly erasing the gender and ethnic minority achievement gap for 700 students over the course of two years with a short written exercise in setting goals. Jordan Peterson teaches in the department of psychology at the University of Toronto. Experiments going back to the 1980s have shown that "therapeutic" or "expressive" writing can reduce depression, increase productivity and even cut down on visits to the doctor. "The act of writing is more powerful than people think," Peterson says. Most people grapple at some time or another with free-floating anxiety that saps energy and increases stress. 'It Turned My Life Around' 'Zeroes Are Deadly'
Standard Grade Bitesize English - Newspaper report : Revision This I Believe | A public dialogue about belief — one essay at a time How to give feedback on a text On Friday, you will get an essay from someone in another class. You are going to give feedback. To be able to do that, please watch the film. Then take a look at the phrases below the film. Those phrases can help you giving the feedback. 1. (LGR 11, Kunskapskrav för A år 9: För att förtydliga och variera sin kommunikation kan eleven bearbeta och göra välgrundade förbättringar av egna framställningar) Two Stars and a Wish STARSVariation and vocabulary Your language is varied. Clarity and coherence Your text has good flow. Adaption Your writing is well adapted to your theme. Grammar and spelling Good sentence structure and descriptions. WISHES Variation and vocabulary You could vary your vocabulary more. Clarity and coherence Your text could have better flow. Grammar and spelling You can improve the grammar in your text. Sara
Ways to Build Students' Character Trait Vocabulary - Teaching Made Practical I was pretty confident – we had created character trait anchor charts, used evidence from the text to identify different character traits, and examined characters in books whose traits had changed over time. I just KNEW my students were going to rock the character trait portion of the practice test. I envisioned myself being praised by my principle, who was telling everybody she knew how this first year teacher she had hired was amazing. My dreams came to a crashing halt as soon as my students took the test. Most of the character trait questions looked something like this: This character can best be described as: a. generous b. brave c. nice d. humble Many of my students couldn’t even read a word like “generous.” here!) The majority of my students chose either “nice” or “brave” as their answer simply because they recognized those words.