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Nine Instructional Moves for Teaching Texts. Note from Dave: This post and its nine moves has been polished, improved, and incorporated into the reading chapter of my new book, These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most.

Nine Instructional Moves for Teaching Texts

If you like my blog, you'll like the book — it's a condensed and coherent version of all that I've written on the blog for its first six years. Learn more here. We are awesome at over-complicating things. (Teachers, I mean.) For example, take any lesson in which we need our students to read something. We have two objectives in any lesson where kids need to read. Guide to Digital Writing « Voiceworks. Getting Started Familiarise yourself with experimental online writing.

Guide to Digital Writing « Voiceworks

The wackier, the weirder, the more exhilarating and genre-bending… the better! You can check out some of our favourite digital writing below: If you’re daunted by the prospect of developing a digital work on your own, consider collaborating with another writer/illustrator/technologist.Digital works come in all shapes and sizes, and the internet is full of inspirational examples of what is possible in interactive forms.

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Edutopia. Students benefit from examples—that’s a pretty obvious fact of teaching. And in my experience, one of the most effective ways to teach writing is to use mentor texts. By looking at examples of good writing, especially when that writing is published work done by professional writers, students learn to aspire to create effective pieces of their own. But for many students, the experience of reading to learn about writing is new and very different from what they have done in the past.

This doesn't mean that they won’t benefit from mentor texts, but it does mean that you’ll have to show them what to do. Taking it slow and building on what they know will help, especially the first few times. 9 Tips for Engaging Your English Class with Pop Culture. Secondary curriculum content « English for the Australian Curriculum. Content descriptions Cross-curriculum priorities General capabilities Content elaborations in sequences This resource provides new elaborations of curriculum content for the Australian Curriculum (Version 8), to support your use of the curriculum in teaching.

Secondary curriculum content « English for the Australian Curriculum

In the units of work, the sequences and activities have links via codes to Australian Curriculum content descriptions, and each unit has a summary table that maps those links and takes you directly to individual sequences in the unit where the elaborations are made. Close Reading Model Lessons. Teaching English. Learning twice: The SIFT Method for Literature Analysis.

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Fiction & Nonfiction Literacy Resources. Decoder - 60second Recap® Can't find your book here?

Decoder - 60second Recap®

Request a recap! Sort by: Title George Orwell, 1949Famous for: Big Brother, doublethink, and some of the 20th century's most memorable quotes: … The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain, 1884Famous for: Larger-than-life characters, a searing message about slavery, and language that … Welcome to EngageNY. Dena Harrison's "Write in the Middle" Website: Homepage. Teaching Visual Literacy to Students. Online Reading Activities. Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. Listen to audio-recorded readings of former Consultants in Poetry Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Frost; Nobel Laureates Mario Vargas Llosa and Czeslaw Milosz, and renowned writers such as Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood, and Kurt Vonnegut read from their work at the Library of Congress.

Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature

The Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress dates back to 1943, when Allen Tate was Consultant in Poetry. It contains nearly two thousand recordings—of poets and prose writers participating in literary events at the Library’s Capitol Hill campus as well as sessions at the Library’s Recording Laboratory.

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301 Prompts for Argumentative Writing. Persuasion Theme Movie Clips for Teaching and Sermon Illustrations at WingClips.com. Fairy Tales / Folktales - Fiction - Books. NSW Syllabus. Persuasive Language Online Resource. Clear definitions and structured activities provide students with strategies to analyse argumentative writing.

Persuasive Language Online Resource

The resource can be used as a springboard to explore issues like the impact of rapidly changing technology on businesses, and copyright and intellectual property in the digital landscape. Using this resource students will develop their knowledge and understanding of: persuasive language how visual texts work to influence readers persuasive techniques such as cliché, alliteration, hyperbole, anecdotes, emotive language, connotation, inclusive language, simile and metaphor, sarcasm devices that characterise persuasive writing such as tone and appealing to emotions A sample writing assessment task, with marking criteria, is included with the resource. Whilst the text type for the writing component of NAPLAN has not been disclosed, students will benefit from refining their understanding of persuasive language for the literacy section.

Periodic Table of Storytelling. Free English Tests for ESL/EFL, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, SAT®, GRE®, GMAT® Online annotation tool. Activities for ESL/EFL Students (English Study) ESL Party Land Teachers. Google + The pages at ESL PartyLand are designed to provide you with the resources and connections you need to become a better ESL teacher.

ESL Party Land Teachers

Casa Notes. English Language Learner (ELL) Resources. The number of students with limited proficiency in English has increased significantly in recent years.

English Language Learner (ELL) Resources

Here are a variety of resources to help educators with English Language Learners. Learn English. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab - For English as a Second Language. Translate. Copyright-free English texts and recordings. ESL - Real English Videos & Lessons. Completely Free! Real English is a Registered Trademark of The Marzio School.

ESL English as a Second Language free materials for teaching and study. Learning English - For teachers. Learning English - Home. English Pronunciation. We use Cisco wireless in all our buildings for convenient and immediate online access.

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You will need the following for the files below: English Pronunciation/Listening We use the popular Can8 VirtuaLab for all our digital language lab programs. Unit One: TH, as in THINK, BATHROOM, and TEETH. Watch this QuickTime movie on the word 'Thought' to see how to correctly make the 'TH' sound (894k). The best place online to learn English for free. Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students (Fun English Study) Games. The bab.la Games are not only fun and entertaining but also very educating.

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How great would it be to learn new words without studying your vocabulary lists by heart? With the bab.la Games you will find it easier to remember the new words you learnt and you will enjoy language learning! Learning a language can be a real challenge. It is difficult to remember all the new words, grammar rules and expressions. It is rather simple for children to learn a new language; the older you become the less you have the ability to remember words and coordinate different languages in your head.

CAPL: Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon. School Radio - Nursery songs and rhymes. Literary Periods Timeline. Poetry archive. English Timeline. This interactive timeline allows you to explore the evolution of English language and literature, from the 11th century to the present day. Scroll through decade by decade to investigate the richness and diversity of our poetry and prose, as well as the many social, cultural and political strands from which our language has been woven.

The timeline includes a fascinating combination of texts: Anglo Saxon tales and medieval illuminations; iconic literary manuscripts and printed texts; as well as letters, newspapers, handbills, posters, charters, speeches and campaign leaflets. Launch the interactive Flash timeline above, or explore the collections within each of the centuries below. Beowulf, Anglo Saxon monsters & more... Reading Australia - Home. Stratford Festival. Due to overwhelming popular demand and amazing reviews, we're extending five of our productions for an extra week of performances!

SpokenVerse. Elements of fiction. Vocabulary.com - Learn Words - English Dictionary. Reading Critically - Interrogating Texts. Rogier van der Weyden, 1399 -1464. Altarpiece fragment, Mary Magdalene reading. Lou Reed Rewrites Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” See Readings by Reed and Willem Dafoe. Yes, Halloween is behind us, and some people may desire a break from the Lou Reed tributes in order to mourn him silently. Fair enough. But indulge us once more, because Reed’s best music and the dark imaginative work of Edgar Allan Poe are always relevant, and when they come together, it’s reason to celebrate.

And come together they did ten years ago with the recording of Reed’s concept album The Raven, a selection of musical and dramatic pieces put together by Reed. The album notably features actors such as Willem Dafoe, Steve Buscemi, Elizabeth Ashley, and Amanda Plummer and guest artists like David Bowie, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and Ornette Coleman. The collaboration, if you can call it such, between Reed and Poe makes perfect sense. Figurative Language. Emily Dickinson Archive. Teaching Literature. Argument Mapping Materials.

Prometheus - Ancient Greek Myths. Automata and Mechanical toys. Maillardet's Automaton at The Franklin Institute. In November of 1928, a truck pulled up to The Franklin Institute science museum in Philadelphia and unloaded the pieces of an interesting, complex, but totally ruined brass machine. Forensic Genealogy Book Contest. Welcome to The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The Envelope Project: How It Works. Pay it Forward: Using Graphic Novels in the Classroom by Mary Catherine Miller.

This week, I taught Shaun Tan’s The Arrival to my undergraduate students. I’m currently working on an article with a few colleagues in which we’re analyzing ways to teach social justice by incorporating graphic novels into our classrooms. My colleagues have taught The Arrival in K-12 classrooms and I’ve had the unique experience of teaching the graphic novel to college undergraduates, many of whom plan to be educators. Idebate.org. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. A List Of Fallacious Arguments. Fractured Fairy Tales. Fractured Fairy Tales. Watch / The Bacchae / Invitation to World Literature. Poetry. Film Education. The English Learner Movie Guides. ACARA: English texts. Australian Curriculum July 13, 2012, 4:08 am Filed under:

Study Guides. These sites provide literary summaries and notes on novels and plays. Behind the scenes of The Wizard of Oz, 1939. Progression of an Animated Shot: Gothel & Rapunzel Disney's Tangled. Jessica Wise: How fiction can change reality. The Key to Media's Hidden Codes. Literature (Main) Joe Wood Online PBWiki / Sharing Stories with Google Earth.

Flummery.com. Teacher/education cartoons you can use! - ANDERTOONS TEACHERS. Cartoons in the Classroom. Cagle Post: Cartoons & Commentary. AAEC - Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Typography. Great Writers: Inspirational literature from the University of Oxford. Shakespeare. Speech. Resources for teaching with photographs. Looking & Telling: Take a good look! Sixteen Sensational Storytelling Ideas. Multimedia and Photos. Helping students interpret visual representations of information. Resources - Picture Book Plays - Presented by Julia Donaldson. Examples of visual texts.