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James Miscavish

My Bookmarks - 54 views

Yeah, I'm adding all my ELA appropriate bookmarks, then going back through and fixing the titles. Should be quite helpful for all of us! Jim Burke wrote: > My plan is to revise all my bookmarks s...

Adam Babcock

The Oatmeal Grammar Pack - The Oatmeal - 39 views

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    Funny process / decision-making posters for common grammar mistakes.
Dennis OConnor

150 Questions to Write or Talk About - NYTimes.com - 30 views

  • For almost two years now, we’ve posted a fresh Student Opinion question every weekday.Each question was originally inspired by something in that week’s New York Times, and all of them are still open to comment by anyone between the ages of 13 and 25.Teachers tell us they use them as “bell-ringers,” as inspiration for lessons, as jumping-off points for student research and journalism, or just to help students practice writing persuasively and responding to others around the world. (We don’t allow last names, and we read each and every comment ourselves before we make it public, so it’s a pretty civil, and safe, place to post.)Below, 1
Meredith Stewart

How to Teach a Novel - 28 views

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    Great blog from an EC Ning member
Adam Babcock

EdTech by Bloom's Taxonomy levels - 23 views

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    This chart includes Web 2.0 tools to be used with each level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and hyperlinked to the the tools' websites.
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    This is fantastic--I already sent it to everyone in my department. Thx
Dana Huff

Presentations in the High School English Classroom - 27 views

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    Utecht provides great guidelines, tools, and models for student-created presentations.
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    they (students and teachers) did this at Educon 2.3 and it was inspiring. We are going to try it 4th quarter 20th century short fiction.
GoEd Online

101 Excellent Sites for English Educators - 27 views

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    101 of the best websites for English (ELA) grammar, writing, reading, ESL, vocabulary, spelling and more.
Dana Huff

English Tenses Timeline - 24 views

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    Handy guide to English verb tenses that shows a progression in time from the past to the future.
Teresa Ilgunas

movieclips.com home - movieclips - 19 views

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    Search by mood, character, theme, setting and more...clips from all kinds of movies.
Jane Lofton

Tech Tools for the English Classroom by Kim trefz on Prezi - 23 views

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    A prezi presentation on a variety of Web 2.0 tools useful in the English classroom.
Patrick Higgins

Outlines for Conceptual Units - 23 views

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    This is a nice collection of literature arranged by various theme groupings. When sitting down to write curriculum, it may come in very handy.
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    Thanks Patrick! It's an extraordinary site for media studies as well as literature.
Meredith Stewart

Middle School Grading Rubric_Sept10.pdf - Google Docs - 23 views

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    This is great! Thanks for sharing this one.
Dana Huff

Teaching 'The Great Gatsby' With The New York Times - NYTimes.com - 15 views

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    The New York Times' collection of resources for teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.
Leslie Healey

Reading Digitally Infographic - 23 views

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    if you had doubts about the chance to engage more kids with eReaders, this infographic might change your mind. I am planning a digital reading course next year, and will use this to argue my case to administration
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    This graphic is nice ... but who conducted the study? How was this information gathered? Why should we trust it?
Leslie Healey

Flavorwire » Charts and Diagrams Drawn by Famous Authors - 23 views

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    Great resources for students:  charts and maps the writers drew as they planned books or lessons Auden's chart on Romanticism, Nabokov on Ulysses Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Vonnegut onthe shape of the story, etc.  Just wow
Dynnelle Fields

Facilitating Literacy Discussions In High School English Class - 28 views

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    I love this-- sample "pinwheel discussion" to analyze literature. I think the teacher's role of making tally marks to show them where they are doing well is key.
Dana Huff

High School English - 22 views

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    English links and tools.
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