Printable Classroom Forms for Teachers, Grades K-12 Highlights SummerSummer is here! While most of your students will be on break from school for a few months, you can still engage their minds this summer. Try our summer reading suggestions, math and science worksheets, and cross-curricular resource packets to prepare kids for what the next school year will bring! July Calendar of Events July is full of events that you can incorporate into your standard curriculum. Our Educators' Calendar outlines activities for each event, including: World Population Day (July 11), Ice Cream Day (July 17), First Moon Landing (July 20, 1969), Parents' Day (July 24), and World War I Began (July 28, 1914). Videos Interested in using different types of media in your classroom? Coding & Computer Science Introduce your students to basic coding and computer science!
Description Web research on the iPad using Evernote and Skitch (how-to) My work involves frequent research on the web, and I am doing more of that on the iPad than ever before. This is mainly due to two apps that make capturing information as easy as tapping on the screen. The two apps, Evernote and Skitch, work well together since both of them are now produced by the Evernote Corp. I have previously detailed how I use Evernote to write long articles on the iPad, a method that still serves me well. Since Evernote is the home for my notebooks in the cloud, it is fitting to also use Evernote in the research phase of my writing projects. It is worth mentioning that both Skitch and Evernote work as well on the Android platform. Related: Evernote makes it easy for me to capture information on the fly as each account holder is assigned a unique email address linked to the Evernote account. This works as follows: I read an article on the web in Safari, Reeder, Zite, or Flipboard, and decide I want to save the reference in Evernote.
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The Teacher's Corner - Lesson Plans, Worksheets and Activities An Exploration of Text Sets: Supporting All Readers ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice In this lesson, students create text sets and use them to practice three strategies for reading for information. back to top Creating Text Sets for Your Classroom: This resource describes text sets and offers information about how to compile and display them. Experienced readers are active in their pursuit of resources to support their learning. Further Reading
George Washington and Frederick Douglass letters: Recognizing point of view and bias - Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide Learning outcomes At the close of this lesson, students will: analyze two primary documents to detect tone, purpose, and author biases identify cultural contexts of a primary document Teacher planning Time required for lesson 60 minutes Materials/Resources Teacher should access a copy of the F.Douglass letter to H. Technology resources Teacher needs access to the internet and a printer. Pre-activities Teacher should discuss bias, a preference that can inhibit impartial judgment, and how it appears in documents. Activities Teacher distributes copy of the Douglass letter. Assessment Student will compose a letter that might have been sent from George Washington to Frederick Douglass on the subject of slavery, and a response by Douglass to Washington. North Carolina curriculum alignment English Language Arts (2004) Grade 9 Social Studies (2003) Common Core State Standards English Language Arts (2010) North Carolina Essential Standards Social Studies (2010) Next: The Declaration of Independence
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