An Original Writer's Notebook Lesson from Corbett
For this lesson's notebook page, after we explore Pat Benatar's metaphor in her song "Love is Battlefield," my students create original and interesting metaphors for the topic of love in their writer's notebooks; on a notebook page, each metaphor is established and extended upon with two details. Once students have practiced extending original love metaphors, they are asked to create new metaphors over the month that are more appropriate to their other core content areas: math, science, and social studies. Once a week in Language Arts class, students polish a new metaphor they have created outside of English class, then publish and illustrate it on a designated page in their writer's notebook.
Making Evidence-Based Claims Units - CCSS ELA / Literacy - Grades 6-12 - Odell Education
FEBRUARY 11, 2013: NEWLY REVISED UNITS! We are pleased to announce the release of our newly revised Making EBC units. We have improved the materials based on feedback from Achieve’s Tri-State Quality Review Process and the insight and expertise of teachers using the units, including those at the NY Network Training Institutes. Highlights of the new versions include: • Addition of the Text-Centered Discussion Checklist for teaching key collaboration skills • Editable glossaries for differentiated vocabulary development • Clarified Instructional Notes • Simplified organization of materials • Enhanced black and white printing Making Evidence-Based Claims ELA/Literacy Units empower students with a critical reading and writing skill at the heart of the Common Core: making evidence-based claims about complex texts.
Third Grade Journal Writing Prompts
Kids Journaling for the Joy of It… I love to write about journaling tips, creative journaling and journal writing techniques. I love journaling so much that I wrote and published two kids journals! Do you love journaling? Do your kids?
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Information and Opinion Writing Continuums We have recently developed two new writing continua, one for opinion/argument writing and one for informational writing. These continua are closely aligned to the narrative continuum both in content and structure, with twelve levels (Levels 11-12 forthcoming) for grades K-8, and language designed to support teachers in assessing writing and developing teaching points.
24 Multimedia Tools That Support The Common Core
How Students Benefit From Using Social Media 12.68K Views 0 Likes A lot of criticism has been leveled at social media and the effect it has on the way students process and retain information, as well as how distracting it can be. However, social media offers plenty of opportunities for learning and interactivity, and if you take a moment to think about it, it's not too hard to see how students benefit from using social media. 10 African-American History Month Teaching Resources
Friendly Letter Template and Lesson Plan
Here's a Friendly Letter printable template and lesson plan. This lesson plan includes a pre-assessment, optional read aloud, ways to include handwriting (such as cursive), technology and a friendly letter bulletin board. Materials: Friendly Letter (2 per student- one for the pre-assessment, 1 for post instruction)Friendly Letter written by the teacher (transparency for large group instruction or one copy for each small group)PencilErasersFairy Tale Mail by Rozanne WilliamsStudent chosen book, which has a favorite character they would like to write to Instructions Prior Knowledge Assessment
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Imagination Prompt Generator: Random Writing Blog Prompts, Writer's Prompt Tool
Writing Prompts : The Imagination Prompt Generator As featured on Blogger's Buzz! Take as much time with each prompt as you need, or set a 10-minute writing timer.
Common Core State Standard Rubric for History/Social Studies 11-12
For the past few weeks, my colleague Todd Whitten and I have been sharing some work that we have done with the Common Core State Standards for History/Social Studies. During this process, we created rubrics based upon the 9-10th Grade Standards and the 11-12th Grade Standards. This week, we will be sharing those documents. Below is what we created based upon the Common Core State Standards for History/Social Studies for 11-12th Grades. (Todd will be launching the rubric for the 9-10th grade on his blog later this week.) When we were aligning activities with the Common Core (links below), this was our guiding document.
Friday Five: 5 Fantastic Apps for the Common Core
The Common Core State Standards are here. These are the apps you need. Tests and textbooks are catching on to the fact that teachers will be expected to meet the Common Core State Standards, but few apps are up to speed. Here are five iPad apps you can use to help your kids meet the new standards.
