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SREB Advisory: 4,700 Teachers Focus on College, Career Readiness in Charlotte This Week - 7 views

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Literacy Design Collaborative
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strategies
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Resources - 48 views

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  User friendly Lexile measurements of example literature and informational texts.
  
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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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  Quarterly Modules - but could be adjusted for your school's purposes.
  
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shape the content within the modules in any way that suit their desired purposes
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re-order
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order in which the four modules may be used is not critical
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ocus and emphasis on the types of texts
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What changes
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is the
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analytic reading
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examining its meaning
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read and reread deliberately.
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understand the central ideas
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supporting details
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entails the careful gathering of observations
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overall understanding and judgment
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omparison and synthesis of ideas
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drawing on relevant prior knowledge
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suggests that educators select a minimum number of grade-level-appropriate short texts
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as well as one extended text
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in lower grades, chosen texts should include content from across the disciplines.
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upper grades, content-area teachers are encouraged to consider how best to implement informational reading across the disciplines
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  The Nonfiction Split
  
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  Elementary and Secodnary
  
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  Selecting Multiple Texts
  
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present their analyses in writing and speaking
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  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
  
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all students need access to a wide range of materials on a variety of topics and genres
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  INTERNETS: Open Resource Revolution!
  
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students improve both their reading comprehension and their writing skills when writing in response to texts.
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notes, summaries, learning logs, writing to learn tasks, or even a response to a short text selection or an open-ended question.[9]
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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.
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narrative story and narrative description
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  TWO TYPES OF NARRATIVE Writing
  
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creative fiction, as well as memoirs, anecdotes, biographies, and autobiographies
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include writing under time constraints
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writing over multiple drafts
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generate writing pieces in response to teacher-provided prompts and to their own prompts
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  LEVEL Qs: Teach students to generate Academic Questions to explore
  
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For reading and writing in each module
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  Essential READING & WRITING Skills
  
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  for ELA/Literacy
  
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Understand and apply grammar:
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Cite evidence and analyze content
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Understand and apply vocabulary
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Conduct discussions and report findings:
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grades 3-5
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two standards progression charts for each grade level
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Writing
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peaking and Listening
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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.
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four sections
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offer one way of organizing the standards
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quarterly modules
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reflects the integrated nature
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suggests both the number and types
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to express an opinion/make an argument or to inform/explain
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write
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citing evidence
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analyzing
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grammar
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vocabulary
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discussions
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reporting
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PARCC Governing Board Quarterly Meeting | PARCC - 15 views

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PARCC Retest Policy

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allow retest opportunities in the summer of 2015
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PARCC will
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offer retests once per year for grades 3-8 ELA/literacy and mathematics
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three times per year for each high school end-of-course assessment
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PARCC will make these retests available
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states will set their own policies
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PARCC Accessibility Accommodations and Fairness | PARCC - 27 views

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  Who is on the Committees on Accessibility, Accommodations, and Fairness?
  
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Policies in Development
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Accessibility, Accommodations, and Fairness Operational Working Group
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Assessment Administration Guidance | PARCC - 24 views

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  Excel spreadsheet to analyze tech needs of school districts.
  
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umber of testing sessions
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approximate testing time,
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number of days
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Alternative Education Programs | State Department of Education - 1 views

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Appropriate structure, curriculum, interaction, and reinforcement strategies for effective instruction;
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Appropriately certified teaching faculty;
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Courses that meet the curricular standards adopted by the Oklahoma State Board of Education and additional remedial courses;
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Individualized instruction;
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Life skills instruction;
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Librarydoor: Thus Saith the Common Core about Graphic Text - 7 views

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graphic texts are actually embraced as "knowledge product"
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Trends in Education: How They Come and Go | Edutopia - 3 views

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mastery learning, portfolio assessment, cooperative classroom structures, technology integration, backward design, multimedia projects, personal learning paths, authentic task development and, most recently, differentiated instruction and integrated curriculum
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Video Games Win a Beachhead in the Classroom - NYTimes.com - 47 views

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create a game that was hard to beat but harder still to quit
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games themselves could feasibly replace tests
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whether children learn more when playing individually or collaboratively.
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discussing how
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not solve as many
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Does discourse result in deeper processing?”
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focused engagement
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“Children need to learn how to read a book,” he says. “They need to learn how to ask questions.”
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social networking, playing video games, tinkering with digital media
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Survey reveals teens' experiences on social networking sites | eSchool News - 1 views

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  Authentic examples of students practicing outstanding citizenship/digital citizenship!
  
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The Two Faces of Anxiety - TIME - 6 views

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  Is the amygdala in the frontal lobe where teenagers' are still developing?
  
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Batch adding new users using the Blog & User Creator -Edublogs Help and Support - 1 views

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Here's the help page to setting up your students on an edublog

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Lord, Save Me From The Krebs Cycle : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR - 71 views

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John Dewey: "Understanding derives from activity."
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That's when we learn, not because we choose to, but because we know it might be on The Test, and too often, curiosity gets replaced by fear.
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they find it fun — until 9th grade
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Kids learn when they want to know the answer, when they care.
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Teachers who teach to the test are failing their students.
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Mobile Devices as Essential Tools - 72 views

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argument education tools edchat

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students, each with a smartphone, take pictures of what they think are complementary angles outside of the classroom. The next day, the students discuss them in class.
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Why spend money on technology when students are bringing it with them to school everyday? Yet, we demand they keep it hidden and put away!

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Ideas to Inspire - 26 views

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education list Inspiration

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Get inspired for some creative lesson plans or share your already awesome lessons on this visually appealing board.

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Get inspired for some creative lesson plans or share your already awesome lessons on this visually appealing board.

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Dribbleglass.com--The Illiterate Minority - 116 views

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politics funny resources tools

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Hilarious and sad.

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Jane Eyre - 50 views

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wedding vows

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Free Tools Challenge #1: Wallwisher - Words That Stick | Teacher Challenge - 97 views

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  An alternative to Lino Pad for collaborative and academic discussion
  
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Common Core Curriculum Maps | - 215 views

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  Rote Memorization? Don't they know that's a Lower Order Thinking Skill?
  
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  Writing an original poem could have the same effect.
  
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Moreover, once students have memorized a poem, they are able to carry it with them everywhere. It becomes part of their lives.
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  Substantive Conversation Socratic Seminar Think-Pair-Share
  
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research essays
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  Good use of EasyBib premium account's notebook feature
  
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