The school’s success suggests that perhaps certain instructional fundamentals—fundamentals that schools have devalued or forgotten—need to be rediscovered, updated, and reintroduced. And if that can be done correctly, traditional instruction delivered by the teachers already in classrooms may turn out to be the most powerful lever we have for improving school performance after all.
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The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 1 views
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It is all about balance. Some students need more help with understanding how to write. Others need less. I would not want writing to be reduced to a formula but we need to have ways to support student in their writing journey. It is hard to write well if you believe you cannot write because you lack success. The focus needs to be on what students need in the format that they need.
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So now the proverbial pendulum is threatening to swing back, back to the basics of writing instruction. Is there a way we can learn from the mistakes of our past over-reactions and consider the possibility that both the technical and creative aspects of writing can (and should) be taught? And that the qualities and skills involved in both can (and should) be taught explicitly and through immersion in the best examples of each genre.
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One strategy to use with ELLs is to provide them with sentence starters, similar to the ones the teachers at New Dorp are now using. The SIOP Model, a way to create lesson plans that encompasses strategies that support ELLs, benefits not only them but all students as well.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Free Downloads - 2 views
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Richard Byrne's blog with free resources and lesson plans for teaching with technology
What Should Children Read? - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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careful reading can advance great writing.
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Common Core dictates that by fourth grade, public school students devote half of their reading time in class to historical documents, scientific tracts, maps and other “informational texts” — like recipes and train schedules
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What schools really need isn’t more nonfiction but better nonfiction,
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Why K-12 schools are failing by not teaching SEARCH | The Thinking Stick - 3 views
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Interesting article about teaching students how to search on the web...with k-12 lesson plans for teaching search techniques
Lesson Plan | Writing Fiction Based on Real Science - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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A great way to infuse science classes with literacy and writing
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