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Kerry Gallagher

Better News in New Study That Assesses U.S. Students - 0 views

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  • Kerry Gallagher on 25 Oct 13
     
    Latest results released by the National Center for Education Statistics. Massachusetts is #1 in science and math again! Amid growing alarm over the slipping international competitiveness of American students, a report comparing math and science test scores of eighth graders in individual states to those in other countries has found that a majority outperformed the international average.
Jan Rhein

Mentor text suggestions - 3 views

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  • Jan Rhein on 13 Sep 13
     
    Here is an article from the IRA with great mentor text suggestions for Writer's Workshop.
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  • Julie Merrill on 14 Sep 13
     
    Jan, thank you for sharing this resource. We are just starting with Writers' Workshop this year, and I'm on the hunt for good mentor texts that I can share with the students, and have available in the "writing center" for them to look at as they write. Even though many were listed as K-5, I find that picture books can be especially helpful at the upper grade levels when introducing a new or difficult concepts. For example, the Amelia Bedelia books are great for idioms. I'm also interested in checking out "You Can Write Awesome Stories" and "Think for Yourself: Avoiding Plagiarism." I may be able to use that last one in collaboration with the resource Robyn posted about copy writing. At the writing institute this summer, the middle school teachers were given a book titled "When I Was Your Age." It's great - personal narratives about being young written by well-known authors. We read one to the kids on Friday called "All-Ball" by Mary Pope Osborne. It was a good way to show how writers sometimes write about personal/meaningful objects and the stories that those objects tell. Some of the stories might be old for elementary, but there are some you may want to check out.
  • Laura Warren on 14 Sep 13
     
    Hi Julie and Jan, I've also been searching for mentor texts for the writing working and I'd like to recommend a book called "Less is More" by Kimberly Hill Campbell. It is subtitled "Teaching Literature with Short Texts." It is filled with ideas for mentor texts. She has a section on picture book with life lessons (she recommends "Officer Buckle and Gloria" which I remember fondly from my own children) and satisfying endings (Cynthia Rylant "When the Relative Came"). Many of her recommendations come from the book "When I Was Your Age" which we were given this summer. (Julie just mentioned it too!) For instance, she recommends Norma Fox Mazer's selection for writing narrative leads and Jane Yolen's selection for writing about a specific place.
  • Donna Martinson on 16 Sep 13
     
    Hi Jan, Thank you so much for posting this site for mentor text suggestions. Searching for ones that witll engage as well as help the students can be challenging. I recently ordered, for my newly created classroom writing center, "Jobs if you like reading and writing" by Charlotte Guillain with the Common Core mantra of career readiness in mind. Seventh graders do not always connect classroom writing instruction to its real world implications. I am hoping this text will help them see where good writing can lead them in the future.
  • R Ferrazzani on 19 Sep 13
     
    I love this topic. I have always believed that using picture books beyond elementary school is a great idea. Mitali Perkins will be our visiting author this May. Her latest book Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices might be another useful resource for teachers interested in working with short texts. I believe she only edited the stories that were picked. I have not read it yet, but I just copied and pasted the information from Mitali's website for you to look over. The public library will be ordering mulitple copies and the middle school will hopefully do the same. Though we lack a funding source, it might be a consideration for some type of all school (middle school) read. "Listen in as ten YA authors-some familiar, some new-use their own brand of humor to share their stories about growing up between cultures. Edited by Mitali Perkins, this collection of fiction and nonfiction embraces a mix of stayles as diverse as their authors, from laugh-out-loud funny to wry, ironic, or poignant, in prose, poetry, and comic form. With contributions by Cherry Cheva, Varian Johnson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mitali Perkins, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Debby Rigaud, Francisco X. Stork, Gene Luen Yang, and David Yoo."
  • Jan Rhein on 21 Sep 13
     
    I'm glad that I'm not the only one looking for quality mentor texts, and am also glad that others found the information from the IRA helpful. Thank you for adding information of your own. It's all so informative. There are some great resources out there!
Kerry Gallagher

The Flip: End of a Love Affair - 3 views

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  • Kerry Gallagher on 03 Nov 13
     
    This teacher gave up the flipped classroom model as his class became more student-centered.
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