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Jennifer Diaz

13 Strategies to Improve Student Classroom Discussions - 149 views

  • These 13-teacher and expert-tested strategies will strengthen your students' ability to find and use evidence from any text
  • Texts that inspire questions encourage students to return to the text and find support for their answers
  • starting with one overarching focus question
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  • Require students to have evidence ready at the start of the discussion
  • "prove it"
  • evidence will actually open up a text to different interpretations
  • The challenge is getting students to expand and explain. To get students to explain why they choose a piece of evidence, provide them with a structure that moves from evidence to interpretation. Williams' students use a graphic organizer with three columns: They write their answer in the first column, note textual evidence in the second, and explain their evidence in the third.
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      I want to do this!
  • Use sentence starters strategically
  • In the text ... the author mentions ...
  • the author uses this evidence to ... this lets us know that ...
  • Give students enough time to flip through and find just the right piece of evidence. If other students are getting antsy, choose one of your always-ready students to share, then loop back to the student who needed time with the text
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      Good idea to keep the pace moving, while providing enough time to find better evidence.
  • "Just because there's more than one right answer," says Riley, "doesn't mean there's no wrong answer."
  • According to page
  • create an anchor chart
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      Create and authentic anchor chart of student/teacher generated starters and prompts.
  • Listen for how students personalize the discussion, and encourage them to develop their own voice.
  • go back to the text
  • They answer the focus question a second time, explain whether or not they changed their answers, and reflect on how the evidence brought up during discussion impacted their thinking.
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    Great ideas for 6th grade response to literature discussion and writing.
Jennifer Diaz

thehometeacher - Angry Birds - 60 views

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    Great printables for teaching kids anger management using Angry Birds
Jennifer Diaz

ZOOM . activities . sci | PBS Kids - 50 views

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    Cool ideas for a Science Project day.
Jennifer Diaz

Ivan the gorilla inspired animal lovers on 2 coasts | HeraldNet.com - Local news - 23 views

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    Ivan the Gorilla has died at the age of 50 in Zoo Atlanta. We are reading The One and Only Ivan for the Global Read Aloud this year.
Jennifer Diaz

Cybraryman Internet Catalogue - 94 views

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    Website with tons of links for how to use Edmodo with students.
Jennifer Diaz

50 Best iPad Apps for STEM Education | Online Universities - 245 views

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    Great list includes many free apps.
Jennifer Diaz

How to Make Rock Candy with Step-by-Step Pictures - wikiHow - 51 views

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    How to Make Rock Candy, including a video.  Great for showing supersaturation for Science!
Jennifer Diaz

Knowledge Quest - 72 views

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    Multiplayer game for education
Jennifer Diaz

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software - 24 views

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    For windows.  May be an alternative to QuickTime Player for Mac.  Want to use this for screen casting.
Jennifer Diaz

Teach with Picture Books: You Say You Want a Revolution? - 78 views

  • The American Revolution gave birth to a new country, but now, more than 200 years later, so many stories of this incredible time in history are yet untold. Most of us know about Paul Revere, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and perhaps even Molly Pitcher, but what of the smaller, yet equally important roles played by American Patriots?
Jennifer Diaz

Teach with Picture Books: Crossroads of the Revolution - 38 views

  • picture books about the American Revolution
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    A list of pictures books for the American Revolution
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