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andrew bendelow

Starting the Fire: Motivating Readers - National Writing Project - 10 views

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    Enacting literature with students to motivate reading Wilhelm describes action strategies
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    Using "action strategies" invigorates the English class
James Miscavish

Writing exercises are a great way to both increase your skill as a writer and to genera... - 0 views

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    # Record five minutes of a talk radio show. Write down the dialogue and add narrative descriptions of the speakers and actions as if you were writing a scene. # Write a 500-word biography of your life. # Write your obituary. List all of your life's acco
Kim Laird

http://webtoolsinaction.pbworks.com/ - 9 views

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    "Web Tools in Action" A wicki where you can post how and why you use a web tool in your classroom. More about implementation than about the tool itself.
Adam Babcock

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 5 views

  • 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.
Suzanne Rogers

Common Core Implementation Workbook | PARCC - 19 views

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    The workbook uses a proven performance management methodology known as "delivery" to lay out clear action steps for states and districts. It provides relevant information, case stories of good practice, key questions and hands-on exercises for leadership teams to complete together. Regardless of your state's timeline, the workbook offers state and district leaders the means to plan for the CCSS and then drive successful implementation.
Dennis OConnor

My New Teaching Partner? Using the Grammar Checker in Writing Instruction - National Wr... - 13 views

  • Summary: Reva Potter, a teacher-consultant with the Dakota Writing Project, and colleague Dorothy Fuller report on an action research project which concludes that Grammar Check instruction combined with direct instruction from the teacher can result in significant improvement in student understanding of key grammar concepts.
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    Technology and grammar...
Todd Finley

Share More! Wiki | Anthology / Diigo the Web for Education - From TeleGatherer to TeleP... - 5 views

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    "# Supporting Diigo-based fine-grained discussions connected to a specific part of a webpage - which opens up the possibility for more meaningful exchanges where teachers can embed all kinds of scaffolding into web-based materials with Diigo: * sharing questions for discussion (either online, or to prepare students for an in-class discussion); * highlighting critical features; asking students to define words, terms, or concepts in their own words/language; providing definitions of difficult/new terms (in various media, such as embedding an image in the sticky note); * providing models of interpreting materials. * using the highlighting/sticky note feature to "mark up" our "textbook" (blog) with comments, observations and corrections to specific words, phrases or paragraphs of each post. * Aggregating bookmarks the students make of websites valuable to their learning, and use the highlighting feature and sticky notes as if they were like the Track Changes feature in MS Word which lends itself more towards collaboration and the iterative process. "
Katie Dixon

Defining bullying - The Sun Chronicle Online - News - 0 views

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      What is the balance?  Stress their important role, teach them how to partner with the school, church, etc at home - but hold parents accountable? Would this not teach students that they are not personally accountable for their actions?
  • "It has to be a process. I don't look at it as being one shot, one year and done,"
  • focusing on bystanders, mostly at the middle school level,
Leslie Healey

The Dark Side of Verbs-as-Nouns - NYTimes.com - 13 views

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      great example: interesting AP example?
  • take-away
  • take-away
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  • e specialist vocabulary of a particular profession or community
  • n software
  • real estate agent
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      attorneys' "word of art" cease and desist
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      great tweet!
  • It’s not just that nominalization can sap the vitality of one’s speech or prose; it can also eliminate context and mask any sense of agency.
  • : nouns get verbed as often as verbs get nouned.
  • nebulous or fuzzy seem stable, mechanical and precisely defined
  • repudiating ambiguity and complexity.
  • priority to actions rather than to the people responsible for them.
  • t often they conceal power relationships and reduce our sense of what’s truly involved in a transaction.
  • instrument of manipulatio
  • instrument of manipulation,
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