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shared by Meredith Stewart on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Meredith Stewart on 15 Jul 09
     
    Blog from last year's 6th grade Language Arts class, includes descriptions of projects/activities and student reflection on activities. Lots of information about using Web 2.0 technology in the LA classroom.
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Diigo and Homophones « Books and Bytes - 0 views

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shared by Meredith Stewart on 13 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Meredith Stewart on 13 Jul 09
     
    Lesson using diigo in 6th grade LA class
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Project LA Language Arts Activities - 10 views

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shared by Melissa Tredenick on 25 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Melissa Tredenick on 25 Oct 09
     
    Great collection of Language Arts grammar PowerPoints, worksheets, online activities, and games for grades 3-5
  • Melissa Tredenick on 25 Oct 09
     
    Great collection of Language Arts grammar PowerPoints, worksheets, online activities, and games for grades 3-5
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Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction - 1 views

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shared by Berylaube 00 on 15 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Berylaube 00 on 15 Jul 12
     
    This site contains hundreds of visual aids (illustrations) that can be used to support instructional tasks such as describing objects and people (i.e., teaching vocabulary) or describing entire events and situations (i.e., teaching grammar). Illustrations pour l'enseignement des langues étrangères"Ce site contient des centaines de supports visuels (illustrations) qui peuvent être utilisés pour supporter les tâches pédagogiques tels que des objets qui décrivent et des personnes (c.-à-enseignement du vocabulaire) ou décrivant des événements et des situations entières (c.-à-enseignement de la grammaire)."Plus de 400 dessins au trait, consultables et consultable, libres d'utiliser à des fins éducatives, repéré par Larry Ferlazzo. The illustrations were created as part of the Visuals for Developing Communication Skills in Foreign Language Classes project, initated by Paul Toth, former Director of the Less-Commonly-Taught Languages Center.
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Fightin' Words: Using Picture Books to Teach Argumentative Writing - 15 views

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shared by Keith Schoch on 19 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Keith Schoch on 19 Feb 13
     
    How to use picture books as mentor texts with middle schoolers to move students beyond simply persuasive writing to the argumentative writing that is required by the CCSS.
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Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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shared by Adam Babcock on 29 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Native American languages impose on their speakers a picture of reality that is totally different from ours, so their speakers would simply not be able to understand some of our most basic concepts, like the flow of time or the distinction between objects
  • rash-landed on hard facts and solid common sense, when it transpired that there had never actually been any evidence to support his fantastic claims
  • new research has revealed that when we learn our mother tongue, we do after all acquire certain habits of thought that shape our experience in significant and often surprising ways.
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  • if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about
  • You may well wonder whether my companion was male or female, but I have the right to tell you politely that it’s none of your business. But if we were speaking French or German, I wouldn’t have the privilege to equivocate in this way
  • but I do have to tell you something about the timing of the event: I have to decide whether we dined, have been dining, are dining, will be dining and so on. Chinese, on the other hand, does not oblige its speakers to specify the exact time of the action in this way, because the same verb form can be used for past, present or future actions.
  • When speakers were asked to grade various objects on a range of characteristics, Spanish speakers deemed bridges, clocks and violins to have more “manly properties” like strength, but Germans tended to think of them as more slender or elegant.
  • gendered languages” imprint gender traits for objects so strongly in the mind that these associations obstruct speakers’ ability to commit information to memory
  • When French speakers saw a picture of a fork (la fourchette), most of them wanted it to speak in a woman’s voice, but Spanish speakers, for whom el tenedor is masculine, preferred a gravelly male voice for it.
  • Nonetheless, once gender connotations have been imposed on impressionable young minds, they lead those with a gendered mother tongue to see the inanimate world through lenses tinted with associations and emotional responses that English speakers — stuck in their monochrome desert of “its” — are entirely oblivious to.
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POTENTIAL IS A MUSCLE: Teach: Tony Danza review in L.A. Times by Mary Macnamara - 8 views

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shared by Leslie Healey on 03 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 03 Oct 10
     
    I feel better now, after Education Nation Week
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