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Writing by Hand to Create a Deeper Engagement in the Classroom | The Digital Realist - 1 views

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writing CCSS tems520 Strategies HS MS

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  • Neurologists at the University of Indiana found more advanced neural activity in children when they wrote by hand as opposed to typing. An educational psychologist at the University of Washington found that 2nd, 4th, and 6th graders in a study there “expressed more ideas when writing essays by hand versus using a keyboard to compose.”
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      Linda Clinton on 05 Jun 13
       
      This is contrary to upcoming online writing assessments.
  • emphasizes the importance of taking one’s time by making a connection between writing and drawing: before her students even start writing, she asks them to take fifteen minutes or so to make a sketch of the scene they want to create. When they are done, she has them list all of the sensory details in the picture.
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      Linda Clinton on 05 Jun 13
       
      Stragegies we use with developing writers...used by a college professor!
  • you are creating the containers where you will eventually do your thinking.  If you are just thinking, on a screen, where you can write so fast and erase so fast, it’s kind of like Frost’s thing of playing tennis without a net.”
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  • “getting your mind on the page, without the interference of the editor, the fake voices, the cleaner-upper, the conformist.”
  • Sellers believes writing by hand can improve literacy by deepening students’ engagement with word and world.
  • They have to do the handwriting thing for thirty minutes a day for thirty days. For many of them, it’s the only time in the day they are alone.  It’s a form of meditation, right? To sit with oneself and discover what’s in there.  Writing by hand, then, is a great way, of creating a conversation with oneself.  That’s vital for the first year writer—maybe the most vital thing.”
  • “And I’m not sure writing by hand is right for every teacher, every writer, every classroom. I just want to make sure we don’t lose methods that really work.”
  • Linda Clinton on 05 Jun 13
     
    Fascinating!
Linda Clinton

Daniel Pinkwater on Pineapple Exam: 'Nonsense on Top of Nonsense' - Metropolis - WSJ - 1 views

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assessment authors

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  • Linda Clinton on 26 Apr 12
     
    An article about the NY state assessment we discussed in class.
Linda Clinton

KnightCite Citation Service - 0 views

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ELA resources writing citation bibliography reference research APA mla

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  • Linda Clinton on 22 Apr 12
     
    Knight Cite is a website that creates citations for reference page of papers. You select the style and type and fill in the fields it asks for. After that all you have to do is copy the citation into your document.
Linda Clinton

Professional Literature Reviews - 1 views

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TEMS520 booklist reading PD resources

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  • Linda Clinton on 14 Apr 12
     
    Excellent list of professional reference and resources on teaching reading. Thoughtful reviews written on each.
Linda Clinton

The Angry Birds Effect « Byron's Babbles - 2 views

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teaching instruction learning assessment TEMS520

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  • Linda Clinton on 05 Apr 12
     
    The author presents a convincing argument for emulating instructional design found in "Angry Birds."
Linda Clinton

Educational Leadership:Reading: The Core Skill:Every Child, Every Day - 0 views

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CCSS reading literacy instruction TEMS520

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  • research has demonstrated that access to self-selected texts improves students' reading performance (Krashen, 2011), whereas no evidence indicates that workbooks, photocopies, or computer tutorial programs have ever done so
  • If school principals eliminated the budget for workbooks and worksheets and instead spent the money on real books for classroom libraries, this decision could dramatically improve students' opportunities to become better readers.
  • Studies of exemplary elementary teachers further support the finding that more authentic reading develops better readers
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  • struggling readers typically encounter a steady diet of too-challenging texts throughout the school day
  • remediation that emphasizes comprehension can change the structure of struggling students' brains.
  • to enable the brain to develop the ability to read: It takes lots of reading and rereading of text that students find engaging and comprehensible.
  • he intensity and volume of high-success reading, that determines a student's progress in learning to read
  • exemplary teachers were more likely to differentiate instruction so that all readers had books they could actually read accurately, fluently, and with understanding.
  • Writing provides a different modality within which to practice the skills and strategies of reading for an authentic purpose.
  • Time for students to talk about their reading and writing is perhaps one of the most underused, yet easy-to-implement, elements of instruction
  • Research has demonstrated that conversation with peers improves comprehension and engagement with texts in a variety of settings
  • better outcomes when kids simply talked with a peer about what they read than when they spent the same amount of class time highlighting important information after reading
  • When students write about something they care about, they use conventions of spelling and grammar because it matters to them that their ideas are communicated, not because they will lose points or see red ink if they don't
  • This high-impact, low-input strategy is another underused component of the kind of instruction that supports readers
  • simply requires a decision to use class time more effectively.
  • eliminate almost all worksheets and workbooks
  • ban test-preparation activities and materials from the school day
  • no studies demonstrating that engaging students in test prep ever improved their reading proficiency—or even their test performance
Linda Clinton

The Neglected "R" The Need for a Writing Revolution - 0 views

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teaching reading writing elementary MS HS TEMS520

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  • Linda Clinton on 25 Mar 12
     
    2003 report of the National Writing Commission
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Non Fiction Text Features Posters - Primary Punch - TeachersPayTeachers.com - 1 views

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TEMS520 reading comprehension infotext text features CCSS elementary MS ELA printables

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  • Linda Clinton on 25 Mar 12
     
    This packet contains colorful posters to teach 14 non-fiction text features! -guide words -title page -table of contents -index -glossary -heading -keywords -illustrations & photographs -captions -diagrams -labels -text box -maps -charts
  • Linda Clinton on 25 Mar 12
     
    Free downloadable posters to teach text features!
Linda Clinton

Interactive Notation System for Effective Reading and Thinking (INSERT) - 0 views

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TEMS520 reading notetaking comprehension strategies

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  • Linda Clinton on 18 Mar 12
     
    INSERT is a strategy with several uses. Students mark a text (with pencil or sticky flags) with symbols such as +. -. !, ? to monitor their comprehension during reading. These marks can then be used by the teacher to help students engage in discussions, and clarify understanding. Students can also use the marks to make notes after reading.
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GuidedInstruction.pdf - 1 views

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TEMS520 instruction research teaching strategies

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  • Linda Clinton on 18 Mar 12
     
    This is actually 2 articles from American Educator Spring 2011 -Putting Students on the Path to Learning: The Case for Fully Guided Instruction -Principles of Instruction: Research-Based Strategies That All Teachers Should Know The first article asserts that "teachers are more effective when they provide explicit guidance accompanied by practice, not when they require students to discover many aspects of what they must learn." The second article presents 10 research-based principles of instruction, along with suggestions for classroom practice.
Linda Clinton

Combining Dictogloss and Cooperative Learning to Promote Language Learning - 2 views

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TEMS520 reading comprehension listening ELL ESL

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  • Linda Clinton on 18 Mar 12
     
    "This article describes dictogloss, an integrated skills technique for language learning in which students work together to create a reconstructed version of a text read to them by their teacher."
Linda Clinton

Michigan's Teaching for Learning Framework - 0 views

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MDE teaching resources instruction SIP TEMS520

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  • Linda Clinton on 16 Mar 12
     
    "The Teaching for Learning Framework, a project of the Michigan Department of Education - Office of Education Improvement and Innovation, was created to support effective instruction in challenging content across all grade levels and content areas. The Framework outlines 77 research-based Essential Skills (organized into __ Fundamental Processes and three Core Elements) that can be learned, practiced, and utilized by classroom teachers to efficiently and effectively deliver instruction."
Linda Clinton

Michigan Assessment Consortium > Home - 1 views

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assessment MDE CCSS video resources TEMS520

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  • Linda Clinton on 16 Mar 12
     
    "The mission of the Michigan Assessment Consortium is to improve student learning and achievement through a system of coherent curriculum, balanced assessment and effective instruction. We do this by collaboratively Promoting assessment knowledge and practice.Providing professional development.Producing and sharing assessment tools and products." Includes resources and archived videoconferences
Linda Clinton

Tear & Share - 0 views

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TEMS520 reading comprehension activities

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  • Linda Clinton on 12 Mar 12
     
    "With this strategy students will have a chance to: remember, understand, analyze, evaluate, and create. Students work in teams of four to answer four questions about an article they read, a chapter from a novel, or a video they just watched (or whatever you want to assess). After careful analysis of their teammate's work, students will come up with a summary of each question to share with the class."
  • Linda Clinton on 12 Mar 12
     
    This is an excellent (and fun!) reading comprehension activity!
Linda Clinton

The heart of the question « READINGPOWER - 0 views

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TEMS520 CCSS resources questioning

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  • Linda Clinton on 11 Mar 12
     
    Links to questioning resources
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