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"Supporting English language learners: A practical guide for Ontario educators Grades 1 to 8 Supporting English language learners: A practical guide for Ontario educators Grades 1 to 8, 2008, is designed to support and help teachers, principals, and other education professionals in elementary schools work effectively with English language learners. This resource guide provides a rich source of practical techniques, research findings, and strategies that can be put to immediate use in the classroom and in the school. It also contains valuable information on working with families and communities, and as a whole school, to enable English language learners achieve curriculum expectations while they learn English."

Targeting Text A Guided Writing Project Targeting Text was a collaborative project undertaken by teachers from a cluster of three schools in the Bowen District - Lindisfarne Primary, Lindisfarne North Primary and Cambridge Primary. The purpose of the project was to focus on the place of guided writing in a balanced writing program. Inspired and supported by Dr Jan Turbill of the University of Wollongong, the teachers were able to develop and share their own skills in using guided writing as a key teaching strategy.

The Video Guide is a resource for both students and teachers to use as they explore the world of video. We hope you'll find these advice sheets, activities, glossaries, and more, useful whether you're just getting started or have already been using a video camera for a while.

"Guided Comprehension: Making Connections Using a Double-Entry Journal"

Before students can begin to study film, they must be provided with a focus. There are many ways to look at a film. Posted below is a suggestion for teachers. Throughout this teacher guide for To Kill A Mockingbird, you will find numerous resources which touch on many of the characteristics listed below.

"Strategy Guide Promoting Student Self-Assessment"

"In this strategy guide, you'll learn how to model how students can make three different kinds of connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world). Students then use this knowledge to find their own personal connections to a text."

"Inside Writing Communities, Grades 3-5 A video workshop for grades 3-5 teachers; 8 half-hour workshop video programs, 8 half-hour classroom video programs, workshop guide, and Web site

Mini-lessons and the books that help to guide your teaching point

Fantastic list of mini-lessons and books

"Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers A video workshop for middle school teachers; 8 one-hour video programs, workshop guide, and Web site

6 traits scoring guide from NWREL

Experiencing the language of great poets provides a rich learning context for students, giving them access to the best examples of how words can be arranged in unique ways. By studying the works of renowned poets across cultures and histories, students extract knowledge about figurative language and poetic devices from masters of the craft. In this lesson, students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems by Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and Langston Hughes. Then they use the poems as a guide to brainstorm lists of nouns and verbs that they randomly arrange to create personification in their own poems.

The readers will assuredly try to find the topic line that will direct to the principle concept of that specific part of writing. So we can saythat thesis is the brief and exact concept that provides the audience with a precise point judgment or tell what to expect from the rest of your composition.

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"How do you effectively structure and guide classroom discussions about novels?" "What's the best way to get students to engage with texts?" "How can you ensure that students read the required chapters for homework? Mine never seem to do it." These questions and more are answered.

What is media literacy? "Media literacy refers to composing, comprehending, interpreting, analyzing, and appreciating the language and texts of...both print and nonprint. The use of media presupposes an expanded definition of 'text'...print media texts include books, magazines, and newspapers. Nonprint media include photography, recordings, radio, film, television, videotape, video games, computers, the performing arts, and virtual reality...constantly interact...(and) all (are) to be experienced, appreciated, and analyzed and created by students.

Some of my colleagues might really frown on this, but I've found that poetry is an obstacle for many students because they lack a basic technique for making sense of it. They've heard all about the sound and the rhythm and the imagery and all that good stuff. And yeah, yeah, that's important, but it has to come later. It has to come after you figure out what the darned thing means in the first place. Contrary to what you might think, you already have the skills to do that. Here are three quick tips that might take the mystery out of reading poetry.

Lots and lots of great reading resources