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Josh Flores

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

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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
Tracy Tuten

Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff - TechLearnin... - 60 views

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learning storytelling publishing sme

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  • Mixbook (or Mixbook for Educators) is a photo-based creation platform that offers hundreds of layouts and backgrounds to choose from along with customizable frames and text to make your book beautiful. Just pick a layout, drag-and-drop your photos into the photo slots, and edit to your heart's content.
  • Though the site's examples suggest using the books to gather wedding, travel, and baby albums, this program can absolutely used to create stories around historic photographs and artifacts, original art, to produce a class yearbook, to share an oral or personal history or journey, to tell the story of a field trip.  Mixbook for Educators now offers a secure collaborative environment for sharing their ebooks, as well as discounts on printed products, should you choose to print.  (A similar option is Scrapblog.)
  • Storybird, a collaborative storybook building space designed for ages 3-13, inspires young writers to create text around the work of professional artists and the collection of art is growing. Two (or more) people create a Storybird in a round robin fashion by writing their own text and inserting pictures. They then have the option of sharing their Storybird privately or publicly on the network. The final product can be printed (soon), watched on screen, played with like a toy, or shared through a worldwide library. Storybird is also a simple publishing platform for writers and artists that allows them to experiment, publish their stories, and connect with their fans.
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  • Myth and Legend Creator 2 shares a collection of traditional stories from England and around the world to hear and read. The site offers historical context for each story, story time lines and maps, ideas for use of the story in the classroom, and student work inspired by the story.  The Story Creator--with its libraries of backgrounds, characters, props, text bubbles, sound and video recording tools, and options to upload--provides students easy opportunities to create their own versions of traditional stories.
  • The Historic Tale Construction Kit is similar in that it helps students construct stories around a theme, in this case stories set in the middle ages with movable, scalable beasts, folks, braves, buildings. and old-style text.
  • Tikatok is a platform devoted to kid book publishing at a variety of levels.  Children have the option of exploring a collection of interactive story templates called StorySparks prompts, personalizing an existing book with their own names in Books2Go, with their own names, or starting from scratch in Create Your Own Book. Tikatok’s Classroom Program allows teachers to share lesson plans, view and edit students' work online, encourage collaboration, and track writing progress.
  • Big Universe is both an online library and a publishing and sharing community for grades K through 8.  Using Big Universe Author, students may create, research, and collaborate on books using a library of more than 7000 images and interactive tools.
  • Tracy Tuten on 20 Aug 10
     
    Digital publishing tools for creating story books
Martin Burrett

Writing Sparks - 16 views

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English writing stories story poems poetry poem news

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  • Martin Burrett on 06 Sep 17
     
    "A superb creative writing site to stimulate ideas for opinion pieces, news articles, stories or poems. There is a teachers area with whole class whiteboard resources, and a pupil area where your pupils can write their pieces and print."
Nigel Coutts

From Good to Great: Writing well by Thinking like Authors - The Learner's Way - 15 views

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writing literacy education teaching communication learning

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  • Nigel Coutts on 05 Apr 20
     
    A common challenge for students and teachers is how to develop a great idea for a piece of writing. Too often students struggle with the process of finding inspiration for their writing. They have a vague idea for the story they hope to tell, but all too quickly it transforms into a list of events with little or no detail. The goal here is to provide our students with a process to use during the planning process. The hope is that by identifying the type of thinking required during the early phases of ideation and to focus their attention on details, that the stories our students subsequently compose will be more enjoyable to read. Hopefully, this process helps.
Glenn Hervieux

inklewriter - 19 views

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Digital Storytelling interactive writing

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  • Damianne President on 04 Mar 14
     
    inklewriter is a free tool designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It's perfect for writers who want to try out interactivity, but also for teachers and students looking to mix computer skills and creative writing.
  • Glenn Hervieux on 29 Mar 15
     
    "Inklewriter is a free tool designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It's perfect for writers who want to try out interactivity, but also for teachers and students looking to mix computer skills and creative writing."
Martin Burrett

Oneword - Writing stimulus - 46 views

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writing creativity English creative writing stories

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    • Andy Whiteway
      Andy Whiteway on 20 May 09
       
      Fantastic. Share with those who are struggling to get started in their creative writing. Use as a starter in an English lesson.
    • Dimitris Tzouris
      Dimitris Tzouris on 23 Nov 10
       
      Very interesting!
    • Patrick Higgins
      Patrick Higgins on 16 Sep 11
       
      My question is how this differs from using your Writer's Notebook?  
    • Sarah Schaller Welsh
      Sarah Schaller Welsh on 01 Feb 12
       
      I am looking for cool ideas for a creative writing course...I feel like this could be a very useful tool.
  • Martin Burrett on 01 Aug 11
     
    A great way for children to learn the art of story openings. They have 1 minute to write from a one word stimulus. The site asks for a name & email. I usually just cut and paste the work into Word instead. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Mark Gleeson

Quality story writing through the power of Pixar - 136 views

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story writing pixar

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  • Mark Gleeson on 14 Jul 12
     
    22 tips from a Pixar story boarder, outlining the successful rules they follow for creating their stories. Inspiring!
A Strang

One Million Monkeys Typing: A Collaborative Writing Project - 0 views

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writing storytelling collaboration social creativity opensource

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  • A Strang on 02 Jun 09
     
    You read a snippet of a story and then you click 'read more' at which time you are presented with unique paths to continue the story. You choose. If you wish you can then add to the story by grafting your own snippet onto the story. Popular snippets get ranked and continue, unpopular snippets disappear.
Michele Brown

Green Screen Adventures - Smart Stuff for Kids. We Bring Your Stories to Life. - 81 views

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publishing writing

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  • Michele Brown on 15 Nov 12
     
    Make your stories come alive.  Create stories and submit. If your story is picked they will create a video of your story.
Martin Burrett

ThumbScribes - 112 views

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writing collaboration English collaborative Literacy songs poem poems stories story

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  • Martin Burrett on 26 Jan 12
     
    This is a great site for encouraging writers to create stories, poems and songs collaboratively. The site limits how much a user can write and can invite friends or the public to continue and edit a piece of writing. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Martin Burrett

Starship English - Story Plant - 89 views

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writing stories story plot creative writing English literacy BBC

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  • Martin Burrett on 06 Oct 11
     
    A good English site from the BBC that helps young learners plan and write stories. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Melissa Thom

The Millions : Ask the Writing Teacher: Story Arc(s) - 46 views

www.themillions.com/...riting-teacher-story-arcs.html

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    • Melissa Thom
      Melissa Thom on 17 Nov 13
       
      Plot has many definitions depending on the context.
  • arc is the structure on which plot hangs
  • Change should occur, but not necessarily within a character.
    • Melissa Thom
      Melissa Thom on 17 Nov 13
       
      This is interesting.  I think that in many cases what makes a good story IS the changing and evolution of a character. There is usually a very different feel at the end of the story as compared to the beginning of the story for me.
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  •  ”The greatest story arcs are layered, and conflict us emotionally. I call this falling forward, or using creative destruction as a way to create emotion.”
  • hinking about your character’s arc, you might consider your reader’s. What do you want your reader to feel at the beginning of your story? How about at the end? What needs to occur, what information needs to be supplied, in order to make your reader feel such-and-such?
  • What if a character doesn’t change, but the reader’s perception of that character does? (I think, in fact, this is what Oryx and Crake does, and does well.)
Tanya Hudson

Storybird - Create and share beautifully illustrated digital stories! - 91 views

storybird.com

edtech library digital storytelling content creation ELA_writing primary uppergrades tools

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  • Bob Martin on 28 Jan 10
     
    Collaboarative Digital Storytelling
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  • Deborah Thonus on 11 Feb 10
     
    This site is wonderful for younger students and older ELLs. Using exquisite art graphics from an extensive library of images children create online storybooks. The fanciful and beautiful graphics inspire the creator to write a story. The program then publishes the online book with a default "private" setting. This site appears to be carefully monitored and supervised. Excellent for ELA.
  • Deborah Thonus on 11 Feb 10
     
    This site is wonderful for younger students and older ELLs. Using exquisite art graphics from an extensive library of images children create online storybooks. The fanciful and beautiful graphics inspire the creator to write a story. The program then publishes the online book with a default "private" setting. This site appears to be carefully monitored and supervised. Excellent for ELA.
  • Beth Panitz on 25 Jan 11
     
    Choose an artist, then create a story by selecting artwork. 
  • Martin Burrett on 01 Jul 11
     
    Story Bird widely used story book maker website. It has great templates picture bank. It's ease to use and the results look wonderful. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
  • Marc Patton on 19 Jul 12
     
    Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.
  • Tanya Hudson on 12 Nov 12
     
    Combine your words with high-quality artwork from talented illustrators around the world.
Mark Gleeson

Writing Prodigy or not, this is also about expectations, support and technology - 77 views

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technology expectations writing support

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  • Mark Gleeson on 17 Mar 12
     
    In this blog post, the story of Adora Svitak, the now 14 year old literacy prodigy is discussed in light of how her experiences growing up could be applied to developing every child's writing skills. The blog post challenges how we teach writing, how parents and teachers need to both support the learning of and expect more from children and how we need to develop good learning habits. 
Roland Gesthuizen

How to Write Dialogue that Matters: Lessons from Aaron Sorkin | Edutopia - 1 views

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dialogue english writing narrative

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  • High school writers often fail to include dialogue in their stories. Perhaps this is because they over-rely on telling (1) narratives. Or perhaps skipping dialogue is a strategy that allows students to elude the punctuation rules that accompany quotations
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Aug 12
     
    "students should be taught that the payoffs for learning a few dialogue-writing skills are ample: dialogue can help develop plot, reveal characters' motivation, create a visceral experience for the reader, and make average stories extraordinary"
serausch

Interactive Learning and Reading Activities for Students in Grades PreK-12 | Scholastic... - 26 views

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Interactive Reading

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  • Story StartersGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8This interactive tool creates quick writing prompts to help young students delve into creative writing.
  • Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and TodayGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8Take a tour of Ellis Island, explore an interactive immigration timeline, and meet young immigrants in this online activity!
  • Science ExplorationsGrades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12With the help of audio, text, photos, and video, students thoroughly explore six science topics, from the Galapagos Islands to giant squid.Read more >
  • qmbneddo on 06 Sep 16
     
    The Science Explorations link doesn't work.
anonymous

This Exquisite Forest - 72 views

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this exquisite forest art resources web tools

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  • Martin Burrett on 14 Nov 12
     
    This site is a collaborative online drawing and animation project from Google and the UK's Tate Modern art gallery. Draw part of a picture and add to other people's creation. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design
  • anonymous on 14 Mar 13
     
    An online art project developed by Google, this site is a place for digital storytelling through pictures, not words. Students can work collaboratively to create a short animated story, with each animation building off the previous branches. Students can create their own seeds & invite others to grow a tree with them. Before students can create their own seeds, they do have to contribute to an already existing tree. If a student does not feel they can express their words with an animation, think about having the students pair up. Have one student become an author & write an outline of the story, while the other student draws the animation of the story.
Andrew McCluskey

Six Words: Ask Who I Am, Not What : NPR - 67 views

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race race card michele norris Writing six-word story story stories NPR

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  • Andrew McCluskey on 20 Mar 13
     
    "This month NPR begins a series of occasional conversations about The Race Card Project, where people can submit their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. Thousands of people have shared their six-word stories and every so often NPR Host/Special Correspondent Michele Norris will dip into the trove of six-word stories to explore issues surrounding race and cultural identity for Morning Edition. You can find hundreds of six-word submissions and submit your own at www.theracecardproject.com."
Michele Brown

PicLits.com - 58 views

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photos writing visualization poetry english

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  • Michele Brown on 22 May 13
     
    Create a PicLit -  Inspired Picture Writing - creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.
Martha Hickson

inkle » inklewriter - 29 views

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writing creative_writing english

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  • Martha Hickson on 08 Jul 12
     
    free tool designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It's perfect for writers who want to try out interactivity, but also for teachers and students looking to mix computer skills and creative writing.
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