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Jennie Bales

A High School PBL Unit That Combines Academic Rigor and Student Self-Discovery | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "Balancing rigorous academic study with joy in learning, particularly when it comes to project-based learning, may seem impossible... Teachers often define academic rigor in English as the study of challenging works of literature accompanied by in-depth literary analysis in writing. But what about projects that allow students to delve into who they are and what they are passionate about? Is there space for these projects in academic classrooms? Can we ensure that students learn concrete skills and are challenged academically while also providing them with opportunities for self-discovery and joy?"
Jennie Bales

Teaching Strategy: Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World | Facing History - 5 views

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    A teaching strategy to help students make connections between the ideas in readings, their own experiences and beliefs, and events in history and the world. Facing History offers teaching strategies that nurture students growth; literacy and critical thinking skills within a respectful classroom climate. By giving a purpose to students' reading (i.e. focusing students on paying close attention to text to find connections), this strategy helps students comprehend and make meaning of the ideas in the text. This strategy can be used when reading any text - historical or literary - and it can also be used with other media as well, including films. It can be used at the beginning, middle or end of the reading process - to get students engaged with a text, to help students understand the text more deeply or to evaluate students' understanding of the text.
Jennie Bales

Picture Books and Primary Sources: Wood, Wire, Wings: Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airpl... - 0 views

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    "Often I suggest we bring historically based picture books into student learning to explore history. So many titles are rich entry points for moments and individuals from the past. Another approach though is to use these narratives to explore the author as a researcher. How do authors gather background about individuals and events? How does that process help define the story?"
Jennie Bales

Book Links QLD Inc - The Centre for Children's Literature - 0 views

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    A site deveoted to children's literature with a range of programs, events and connections to other literary resources. It aims to link people and groups throughout the community with stories and experiences to build literacy and learning, so as to enrich lives.
Jennie Bales

Teaching Narrative Nonfiction with Guided Reading for Early Elementary Students - YouTube - 0 views

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    n-class example of teaching the guided reading strategy of using story structure to help read narrative nonfiction. The teacher is using the Units of Study for Teaching Reading instructional model developed by Lucy Calkins. Watch as the teacher demonstrates guided reading strategies such as looking at the cover and title page to predict what the book will be about. By providing guided reading instruction and coaching before the students read the passage of text, they will be more likely to discover answers for their predictions. After students finish reading the nonfiction passage the teacher meets with them individually to provide additional guided reading support and see if their predictions came true. For more information about teaching guided reading in the reading workshop model visit http://www.unitsofstudy.com
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    n-class example of teaching the guided reading strategy of using story structure to help read narrative nonfiction. The teacher is using the Units of Study for Teaching Reading instructional model developed by Lucy Calkins. Watch as the teacher demonstrates guided reading strategies such as looking at the cover and title page to predict what the book will be about. By providing guided reading instruction and coaching before the students read the passage of text, they will be more likely to discover answers for their predictions. After students finish reading the nonfiction passage the teacher meets with them individually to provide additional guided reading support and see if their predictions came true. For more information about teaching guided reading in the reading workshop model visit http://www.unitsofstudy.com
Jennie Bales

15 STEM Titles To Celebrate Women | School Library Journal - 1 views

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    An annotated list of US titles. A splendid mix of fiction and nonfiction female-centered STEM books for children and teens, just in time for Women's History Month. The majority of these titles were selected for their dual-purpose qualities, as they not only explore and celebrate the rich legacy of female scientists and thinkers but also have the ability to introduce or rekindle a love for STEM subjects.
Jennie Bales

Picture Books and Primary Sources: The Teachers March! By Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich ... - 1 views

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    "So many historically based picture books now focus on lesser-known events or individuals. When those books fill in gaps of knowledge and connect to other events that we do know, they can broaden students' understanding of a moment in time or historical figure."
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Home | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "Teachers can use stories and poems to boost students' understanding of math and science concepts while giving them extra reading practice."
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Making Connections - ReadWriteThink - 3 views

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    In this strategy guide, you'll learn how to model how students can make three different kinds of connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world). Students then use this knowledge to find their own personal connections to a text.
Jennie Bales

8 interactive Google Slides activities for classroom excitement | Ditch That Textbook - 0 views

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    So often, people think of presentation slides as just that: a visual aid for delivering a presentation in front of an audience. But these slide apps (like Google Slides and PowerPoint in Office 365) really are powerful tools for delivering interactive user experiences. They can also create visually stimulating products to deliver a message and valuable content. By thinking outside the box with Google Slides, PowerPoint and other similar tools, teachers can create unique learning experiences for students. Or students can create them to share with other students.
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 - 2 views

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    Reading science trade books is the perfect way for students to build literacy skills while learning science content. The books that appear in these lists were selected as outstanding children's science trade books. They were chosen by a book review panel appointed by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and assembled in cooperation with the Children's Book Council (CBC).
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Learning.21stCentury.Snapshot - Home - 3 views

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    a personal website supporting the NSW curriculum with "Book List Ideas" under each curriculum area.
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Teachinghistory.org - 0 views

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    "historical fiction can make history matter-make it irresistible-to young readers. And it is important to make history matter, because reading about the past not only gives children factual information-sort of a mental timeline, for example, so that they know that the Revolutionary War happened before the Civil War-but learning about the past also allows, encourages, and teaches a child to identify with other voices, views, cultures, and times, which is a good life skill. Reading about the past teaches empathy and compassion. It helps a child see the similarities that lie just underneath our differences. "
Jennie Bales

The Magic of STEM-Related Read-Alouds in Elementary School | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "Picture books are an extremely valuable resource for learning. They come packed with amazing artwork, stories, humor, history, and science. They often teach about people in that wonderful genre of narrative nonfiction."
Jennie Bales

Literacy in Every Classroom: How Knowledge Powers Reading - 1 views

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    By Doug Lemov writing for Educational Leadership. To help students master nonfiction reading, we must design instruction that builds their background knowledge. Supports early stages of inquiry learning - tuning in, immersion, exploration.
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The History Girls - 0 views

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    The History Girls are a group of best-selling, award-winning writers of historical fiction and non-fiction. Some of us write for young adults, some for fully fledged adults, some for younger readers.
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Whose History? Engaging History Students through Historical Fiction - whose-history-ebo... - 0 views

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    Welcome to the electronic edition of Whose History? Engaging History Students through Historical Fiction .
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Rethinking Schools Online - 1 views

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    We must teach students how to navigate in an unjust world, but also teach them how to change it. Educators talk about teaching the basics-reading, writing, and math-but shouldn't teaching students how to stand up, fight back, and work for justice be mandatory curriculum for a democratic society? This website was created by Linda Christenson (2004), who developed the PTAB (Target, Perpetrator, Ally, Bystander) strategy. It explains the strategy in depth, and provides additional information, lesson examples and resources which may be used.
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Why Storytelling Is The Ultimate Weapon - 0 views

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    Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal, says science backs up the long-held belief that story is the most powerful means of communicating a message
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WebQuests: Explanation - 0 views

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    A teacher resource on webquest that examines the strategy, contents, construction and implementation.
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