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Mark Gleeson

The Literacy Shed - A great new resource for Visual Text Literacy Teaching - 123 views

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literacy comprehension visual_text multimodal_text

shared by Mark Gleeson on 23 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Mark Gleeson on 23 Jun 12
     
    The site is organised into 24 different 'sheds", each providing a selection of quality visual texts (mainly 3D animations) accompanied by very useful teaching notes (Note to Grammar Gurus/Spelling "Nazis" -  ignore the occasional typo in the notes) outlining how you can use the clips in exploring themes, characterisation, narrative, plot, mood, use of audio, body language, inferences,deductions, predictions  - the notes cover just about everything. It's equally useful for reading comprehension and writing development. The use of the resources also go beyond just Literacy. Many of the resources are also useful for Humanities subjects as well and Smith points these links out in detail. What I especially enjoy is the number of foreign animations that expose students particularly in USA and Australia, my home, to different cultural and creative perspectives beyond Hollywood story telling.
meldar

Road To Grammar -- Your Road to Better Grammar - 215 views

www.roadtogrammar.com

grammar literacy

shared by meldar on 18 May 12 - Cached
  • meldar on 18 May 12
     
    365 different grammar quizzes
Roland Gesthuizen

Second-Graders At Elmwood Franklin School Edit NFL Tweets For Bad Grammar (PHOTOS) - 42 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...edit-nfl-tweets_n_2617043.html

twitter Literacy grammar classroom lesson English

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 13 May 13 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 13 May 13
     
    "NFL players steal the spotlight for lots of reasons. Proficiency in grammar has never been one of them. Mark Saldanha, a second-grade teacher at Elmwood Franklin School in Buffalo, N.Y., decided to use that to his advantage last week, when his class selected tweets from NFL players -- and then corrected them."
Martin Burrett

Grammar Ninja - 5 views

www.kwarp.com/...grammarninja.html

grammar game interactive literacy English verbs nouns adjectives

shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Jun 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 Jun 11
     
    A superb English grammar game where users throw ninja stars at the correct type of word. Download the sentence creator to make your own sentences and play offline. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Peter Beens

The Canadian Press: Students failing because of Twitter, texting and no grammar teaching - 25 views

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social-networking twitter Failure literacy issues

shared by Peter Beens on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Almost a third of those students are failing.
  • For years there's been a flood of anecdotal complaints from professors about what they say is the wretched state of English grammar coming from some of their students.
  • the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
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  • Some students in public schools are no longer being taught grammar, she believes.
  • Emoticons, happy faces, sad faces, cuz, are just some of the writing horrors being handed in, say professors and administrators at Simon Fraser."Little happy faces ... or a sad face ... little abbreviations," show up even in letters of academic appeal, says Khan Hemani.
  • The Internet norm of ignoring punctuation and capitalization as well as using emoticons may be acceptable in an email to friends and family, but it can have a deadly effect on one's career if used at work.
  • "These folks are going to short-change themselves, and right or wrong, they're looked down upon in traditional corporations," notes Postman.
Josh Flores

Annotating the Model Content Frameworks for ELA/Literacy by PARCC - 9 views

www.parcconline.org/...content-frameworks-elaliteracy

PARCC commoncore framework tools resources

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    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 12 Mar 13
       
      Quarterly Modules - but could be adjusted for your school's purposes.
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 12 Mar 13
       
      Ingredients!
  • shape the content within the modules in any way that suit their desired purposes
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  • re-order
  • order in which the four modules may be used is not critical
  • ocus and emphasis on the types of texts
  • What changes
  • is the
  • analytic reading
  • examining its meaning
  • read and reread deliberately.
  • understand the central ideas
  • supporting details
  • entails the careful gathering of observations
  • overall understanding and judgment
  • omparison and synthesis of ideas
  • drawing on relevant prior knowledge
  • suggests that educators select a minimum number of grade-level-appropriate short texts
  • as well as one extended text
  • in lower grades, chosen texts should include content from across the disciplines.
  • upper grades, content-area teachers are encouraged to consider how best to implement informational reading across the disciplines
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 12 Mar 13
       
      The Nonfiction Split
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 12 Mar 13
       
      Elementary and Secodnary
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 12 Mar 13
       
      Selecting Multiple Texts
  • present their analyses in writing and speaking
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 12 Mar 13
       
      Listening and Speaking Tip: Class presentations with a rubric; allow class to complete rubric of their peers too and use video or text-to-speech based web 2.0 animation programs for shy students
  • all students need access to a wide range of materials on a variety of topics and genres
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 12 Mar 13
       
      INTERNETS: Open Resource Revolution!
  • students improve both their reading comprehension and their writing skills when writing in response to texts.
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 12 Mar 13
       
      I knew it!
  • notes, summaries, learning logs, writing to learn tasks, or even a response to a short text selection or an open-ended question.[9]
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 12 Mar 13
       
      Examples of Writing Practices
  • hese responses can vary in length based on the questions asked and tasks performed, from answering brief questions to crafting multiparagraph responses in upper grades.
  • narrative story and narrative description
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 12 Mar 13
       
      TWO TYPES OF NARRATIVE Writing
  • creative fiction, as well as memoirs, anecdotes, biographies, and autobiographies
  • include writing under time constraints
  • writing over multiple drafts
  • generate writing pieces in response to teacher-provided prompts and to their own prompts
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 12 Mar 13
       
      LEVEL Qs: Teach students to generate Academic Questions to explore
  • For reading and writing in each module
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 12 Mar 13
       
      Essential READING & WRITING Skills
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 12 Mar 13
       
      for ELA/Literacy
  • Understand and apply grammar:
  • Cite evidence and analyze content
  • Understand and apply vocabulary
  • Conduct discussions and report findings:
  • grades 3-5
  • two standards progression charts for each grade level
  • Writing
  • peaking and Listening
  • Graham, S., and M. A. Hebert. 2010. Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading. A Carnegie Corporation Time to Act Report. Washington, D.C.: Alliance for Excellent Education.
  • suggests both the number and types
  • Students
  • offer one way of organizing the standards
  • quarterly modules
  • reflects the integrated nature
  • four sections
  • to express an opinion/make an argument or to inform/explain
  • write
  • citing evidence
  • analyzing
  • grammar
  • vocabulary
  • discussions
  • reporting
Margaret Moore-Taylor

Welcome to NoRedInk! - 107 views

noredink.com/about

digital literacy apps language learning education ESL

shared by Margaret Moore-Taylor on 24 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Margaret Moore-Taylor on 24 Mar 12
     
    This app was developed by a teacher in Chicago at Whitney Young Magnet School. NoRedInk.com is a web-based learning platform that helps students improve their grammar and writing skills.
  • Margaret Moore-Taylor on 24 Mar 12
     
    Created by someone in chicago
Kim Collazo

Grammaropolis - 112 views

www.grammaropolis.com

grammar literacy grammaropolis

shared by Kim Collazo on 06 Jul 12 - Cached
  • Kim Collazo on 06 Jul 12
     
    Site where kids can practice parts of speech.
Martin Burrett

Daily Writing Tips - 125 views

www.dailywritingtips.com

writing grammar English Literacy language creative writing

shared by Martin Burrett on 03 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 03 Feb 12
     
    A useful blog with a new daily writing idea to try out in your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Martin Burrett

Word Invasion - 136 views

www.slimekids.com/...invasion.swf

English Literacy word class verbs nouns adjectives adverbs pronouns

shared by Martin Burrett on 13 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 13 Nov 11
     
    A great English game where players shoot the correct word when given the word class, such as noun, verb, adjective etc. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Martin Burrett

Ice Cream Talk: Practice Nous and Verbs - 1 views

www.abcya.com/...nouns_and_verbs.htm

verbs nouns grammar English literacy game

shared by Martin Burrett on 18 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 18 Jul 11
     
    A great game where players must click on the nouns and/or verbs to get icecream before the monster... It's true! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
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