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Engaging the 21st Century Reader
Students have a multitude of options for entertainment. Asking a student to put down their iPad Apps for a book can be difficult. Terry Heick at TeachThought shares 10 strategies to Reach 21st Century...
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What Does Every Student Need
This is a question that is on the mind of every educator. Terry Heick at TeachThought shares the 14 things that every student needs. 14 Things Every Student Needs 1. Every student needs...
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The Key Differences Between Summative and Formative Assessment
Determining the differences between Summative and Formative Assessments can be difficult. Katie Lepi from Edudemic shares her thoughts on Summative and Formative Assessments.
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Close Reading Mastered- Strategies for Every Student – Great Books –...
Close Reading Mastered- Strategies for Every Student – Great Books – WeAreTeachers.
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Common Core in Action: 10 Visual Literacy Strategies | Edutopia
Common Core in Action: 10 Visual Literacy Strategies | Edutopia.
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Compare, Contrast, Comprehend: Using Compare-Contrast Text Structures with...
Making connections is crucial for language acquisition and mastery. Mariam Jean Dreher and Jennifer Letcher Gray at Reading Rockets have written an excellent article on how to use comparing and...
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5 Reasons Why Reading a Whole Class Novel Isn’t Such a Great Idea
Whole class novels are something we have all experienced as students. With this approach, how do we ensure all students are interested, engaged, and are reading at their respective levels. This...
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Literacy and CCSS: Removing the Stigma from the Struggle
As a rookie-teacher I remember the pain of introducing a topic/concept and watching students struggle with it. Some innate force pressed me to prompt and cue students until I either gave them the...
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It’s Time To Plan For Struggling Students From The Beginning
This is a part of a post from Terry Heick from Teach Thought. The article is very thought provoking and a great read. An Overview Of How We Plan If I begin curriculum planning by identifying “power...
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Five Tips for Building Strong Collaborative Learning | Edutopia
There is no better model for mimicing the real world like Collaborative Learning. The down side to this instructional strategy is ensuring collective efforts and incorporating all students. This...
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Using Menu’s for Differentiation
Differentiation is often thought of as leveling the content, but true differentiation involves options for the process and the product as well. When students have choice in these options they become...
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The Power of Poverty
This video is very powerful. It examines the effects poverty has on students from birth to graduation and offers solutions to this problem.
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Tools for Teaching Common Core Vocabulary
The Common Core Standards take Vocabulary to the next level. Susan Oxnevad posted this excellent slide-show full of tools for teaching vocabulary.
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A Little Less Conversation: I Think Not by Lindsey Jones
Caleb York:As educators, we often place the emphasis in reading on fluency, phonics, and word recognition. So many times we miss the importance of discussing what we read. This post from the Nerdy Book...
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20 Reflection Questions for ELA
The expectations for critically analyzing text has dramatically increased with the Common Core Standards. This graphic from teachthought shows 20 Reflective Questions to help students respond to text.
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27 Ways Teachers can Facilitate Learning
Facilitated instruction is a topic that is easy to discuss, but difficult to plan and implement. This infographic from Educational Technology and Mobile Learning shares 27 Ways Teachers can implement...
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The Flipped Classroom Gains Steam
With so much discussion on the importance of personalized learning, the Flipped Classroom Concept continues to grow. This 3 minute news clip shows how this concept is helping change instruction in...
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What Parents Want in School Communication | Edutopia
Working side-by-side with parents is key to student success. This post from Edutopia explores what parents want in communication and how they want to receive it. What Parents Want in School...
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Motivated to Write: 30 Resources
Excellent tools for writing. Motivated to Write: 30 Resources.
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