Grammar & Vocabulary Games vocabulary games provide a quality complement to regular classroom work, giving students the opportunity to practice vocabulary concepts in a fun way. This in turn ensures that students acquire new Language Arts skills all the while setting the stage for a lifetime of learning appreciation. As teachers know, the eighth grade vocabulary curriculum is closely linked with not only proficiency in reading comprehension but also proficiency in eighth grade writing. Because vocabulary is the common denominator, parents can play an important role in helping their children meet literacy goals by having them play fun online vocabulary games.
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. After the two-page notebook spread is complete, students can be reminded/prompted to use more metaphors during writing or during processing in the future. In 2012, I added a poetry extension lesson, which you can find below in the write-up. Idea #1...Teaching a Four-Metaphor Poem From day
LAL Tips for Teachers What have you found? Pictures galore are inspiring teachers and Pinterest is allowing them to save their favorite ideas using a virtual pinboard. Share your teaching-related pinboard with us here so we can: repin your items that we love, follow you if you are a pinning-diva, get some great tips and find materials! Be sure to pin your favorite things from TBA while you're clicking away! (Linkup closed) Click to see TBA's pinboards and follow us! Reading Worksheets Fourth Grade Reading Comprehension Test Collection – 9 Tales of 9 Tails: Use the information in the story to answer the 5 comprehension questions. Answer Key Is Included. Each story is part of an ongoing story of self-discovery and growth of a 9-tailed fox. Traditionally considered an evil fairytale creature, like Europe’s Big Bad Wolf, this is a lighter take on the creature’s folklore. The First TailThe Second TailThe Third TailThe Fourth TailThe Fifth TailThe Sixth TailThe Seventh TailThe Eighth TailThe Last Tail Reading Comprehension Workbooks – Click Here Information: Fourth Grade Reading Comprehension. 4th Grade Reading Comprehension Test Practice. Download
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Tom March :: Thesis Builder - The Original Persuasive Essay Maker ElectraGuide is a tool that wants to help high school students: find a topic (see example topic questions?)create a good thesis statement (see an example?)and generate an outline (see an example?) Let's get started! What's the topic you want to write about? What's your main opinion on this topic? What's the strongest argument supporting your opinion? What's a second good argument that supports your opinion? What's the main argument against your opinion? What's a possible title for your Essay? Once you are happy with your thesis statement,you can crank out a quicky outline by clicking the button below. Tom March :: Thesis Builder - Topic-O-Rama Welcome! This Website offers an ideal pool of 50 prompts to help you brainstorm a topic you're interested in. Topics for essays are often controversial and sometimes hotly debated so look for one that excites your opinions. Instructions Click on the "Topic-O-Rama" button below to jump through 50 ideas. Or else you can click the arrows to move through the ideas in order. When one of the ideas creates sparks: drag across it from the menubar, do an Edit - Copy or Right-Mouse Click > Copyclick the mouse/cursor in the text field below called Your Idea Listthen do Edit - Paste from the menubar or Right-Mouse click. Note: You can also use the text field to write down your own ideas as they come to you. When you've looked at enough ideas and feel confident that you have a good topic for a persuasive essay, click the "I'll Take my Ideas Now, Please" button. What Next?
Genres...Narrative & Memoir Our Narrative Workshop's Focus Trait: Idea Development Our Narrative Workshop's Support Traits: Word Choice and Voice In our NNWP workshops, our Northern Nevada participants receive a complimentary copy of the NNWP's print publication, The Going Deep with 6 Trait Language Guide. This 198-page resource is valued tool in Northern Nevada. Teachers not able to attend our workshops can purchase their own copy of this guide through the NNWP's website; all proceeds from the sale fund the WritingFix website. The best lessons focus more on the writing process than the writing product. Our genre-inspired teacher workshops include a discussion of all six writing traits, but with each class we try to focus in on one trait that will focus us in on very specific skills. We also believe in differentiated instruction at WritingFix. Questions we discuss: Which idea development skills do you currently have sufficient resources and lessons for instructing all your students?
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