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Keith Schoch

Fightin' Words: Using Picture Books to Teach Argumentative Writing - 15 views

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    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.
Meredith Stewart

RealeBooks.com - 1 views

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    RealeBooks.com is your gateway to a bounty of free online family-friendly RealeBooks ("Really Books") - striking picture books, written and designed by students, teachers, and parents from around the world with RealeWriter ("Really Writer") software so ea
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    Create picture books and print them
Dana Huff

Book Drum - 16 views

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    Book Drum is the perfect companion to the books we love, bringing them to life with immersive pictures, videos, maps and music.
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    It has been a great tool for close reading in my AP Lit class. Love Bookdrum!
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    Thanks so much Really exceptional and so interactive..
Berylaube 00

MoMA | Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language - 0 views

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    "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language brings together historical and contemporary works of art that treat language not merely as a system of communication governed by grammatical rules and assigned meanings, but as a material that can be manipulated with creative freedom, like paint, clay, or any other artistic medium. The exhibition is divided into two sections. The first is a historical overview of 20th-century art that experiments with the graphic, sonic, and kinetic possibilities of letters and words. With a few notable exceptions, these works are confined to the two-dimensional parameters of a page. The second section presents an installation of contemporary works, most of which do away with the page; some do away with writing altogether. The artist and poet Emmett Williams observed that "the poem as picture is as old as the hills," citing its beginnings in hieroglyphics,"
Berylaube 00

Community Club Home Listen and Read - Non-fiction Read Along Activities Scholastic - 3 views

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    From Richard Byrne Free Technology for teacher, quoted below:Listen and Read - Non-fiction Read Along Activities Listen and Read is a set of 54 non-fiction stories from Scholastic for K-2 students. The stories are feature pictures and short passages of text that students can read on their own or have read to them by each story's narrator. The collection of stories is divided into eight categories: social studies, science, plants and flowers, environmental stories, civics and government, animals, American history, and community. Applications for Education Listen and Read looks to be a great resource for social studies lessons and reading practice in general. At the end of each book there is a short review of the new words that students were introduced to in the book. Students can hear these words pronounced as many times as they like. Listen and Read books worked on my computer and on my Android tablet. Scholastic implies that the books also work on iPads and IWBs"
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.
Leslie Healey

Not the Booker prize: Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke | Books | guardian.co.uk - 2 views

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    hmmmmm...I have had students tell me that YoungAdult ficiton is mostly "kid books" interesting review. Anyone read this book?
Dennis OConnor

Kermit the Frog - 4 views

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    Search game, find Kermit's picture. Here's a way to teach essential search skills is a game environment. Great for a lab class activity.
Karen LaBonte

365 Pictures Daily Photo Prompts Generated for Your Creative Inspiration! - 11 views

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    Daily photograph & writing prompt-- looks interesting.
Meredith Stewart

Pictory - 11 views

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    Submit picture and caption on variety of themes
Gary Plumley

Make Your Special Days Picture Perfect With Limo Hires - 1 views

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    Some of the biggest moments in your life call for a limo rental. Most commonly, the prom, wedding, anniversaries, graduations, birthdays, stag and hen parties or even corporate events call for the hire of a limo. A limo is the perfect travel option for those who wish to arrive in style to a party.
meenoo rami

Happy Birthday to Dorothea Lange « Flickr Blog - 2 views

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    use this with Marigolds
ten grrl

Jean de Brunhoff's Histoire de Babar Maquette - 0 views

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    This digital facsimile presents every page of a small, delicate maquette that Jean de Brunhoff created in 1930 or 1931 as he drafted the first book in the Babar series. The maquette, an extraordinary handmade booklet complete with cover and endpapers, text and illustrations, is the prototype for Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant.
ten grrl

Exhibitions - Online Exhibits - Picture This: Family Photographs of Everyday San Franci... - 0 views

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    Across decades, and regardless of neighborhood or background, we treasure photographs because they preserve our memories of the events and relationships they document. Our best friends, our trips to the park or beach, the times our families gather together to celebrate-the photos in this exhibition speak of these things which we all hold dear. Use the photos as story starters and background for research and readings
Denee Tyler

Picture (with Poem) of a Small Boy Captured During the Warsaw Revolt - 0 views

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    Ekphrasic Poetry Idea
Leslie Healey

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. - 14 views

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    This puts it all in perspective, lest we begin to believe that what we know is more important than what they experience
Devon Adams

Home (The Picture of Dorian Gray) - 7 views

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    Best student example of IRP Google SIte that I have ever seen.
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