Journal #2 Words Made Flesh: Fusing Imagery and Language in a Polymorphic Literacy - 5 views
Another fascinating article. I appreciate how you share your thinking about your own literacy experiences, and what you hope to bring to students.
Journal Article #2 Information I shared with my principal while student teaching - 5 views
I Entered the Citation above of the book I mentioned in my last post.
Book Review: The Way They Learn: How to discover and teach to your child's strengths - 4 views
It's so interesting to me how some people don't buy into the "different learning styles" theory. I really want to check out this book now! I like how it seems to incorporate the idea that, yes, eve...
Journal #1 Reading Aloud: Are Students Ever Too Old? - 8 views
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr081.shtml This article was very benefical to me. First off I loved the title, Are Students Ever Too Old? In this case the question was asking, when are st...
Journal #1 - Unlocking Text Features in Expository Text - 6 views
You did a nice job of summarizing the article and making connections to your own practice. Around 1990, I took a 2-week summer course on reading in the content areas. The instructor was actually ou...
Book Review: I Read It, But I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Re... - 7 views
I Read It, But I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers is a great resource for implementing reading comprehension strategies in the secondary classroom. The book is written ...
Book Review - Amazon.com: The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tune... - 7 views
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Wendy Morales on 09 Feb 12http://www.amazon.com/Motivation-Breakthrough-Secrets-Turning-Tuned-Out/dp/0743289617/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1328620537&sr=1-2-catcorr The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child, author Richard Lavoie, is a well written resource guide for teachers who wish to figure out how to motivate their students. Parents can learn from the guide as well, but the author primarily addresses educators who seek to improve relations with their students and figure out how to help them work to potential. Richard Lavoie is a consultant and a lecturer with over thirty years of experience as a teacher and an administrator at special education facilities. He explores strategies and techniques that are proven to inspire children to learn. He outlines strategies that will be most effective in igniting the interest and eagerness of kids, especially given their different needs. He outlines several different ways that children are motivated to do their best work. He teaches of the six Ps to motivate children. Some seek praise; others seek prizes, power, projects, or prestige. Some are people-oriented and are motivated when they work with people. Six different chapters address the various motivating factors and how they can be identified and used in the classroom. Personal accounts from Lavoie's years as a teacher allow us to see how he has put his lessons into practice. I appreciate the way that Lavoie challenges teachers to find out what motivates their students, even those students with special needs or who are classified as difficult. He encourages parents and teachers to work together to spark any child to reach his/her full potential. He covers learned hel
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Linda Clinton on 13 Feb 12Wendy, it looks like maybe your review got cut off. You can add to it by adding an additional comment.
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LeAnn Maynard on 13 Feb 12This sounds like an interesting book, and strategies for inspiring students to learn is always a good thing. I would like to add this book to my professional library. Even though I will not be a special education teacher per se, I have special education students in my classroom. Anything that I can do to help them will be valuable.
Story Starters Generator - 5 views
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Journal #1: The Connection Between Literacy and History | Teachinghistory.org - 7 views
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Journal #1 I really like this article because it spoke to my content area, social studies. I think it is important that students understand how they read a novel for English will be different than reading a history textbook or a newspaper article, and therefore require a different strategy. I use primary and secondary documents, as well as text books, and so students sometimes struggle with comprehension of these different materials. I also use Supreme Court case documents and students have difficulty with those especially. Part of it is vocabulary, but part of it they really don't have a strategy for figuring it out. I think providing them with a strategy of how newspaper articles are structured vs. text books would be very helpful for those learners who have difficulty understanding what they are reading. I was also happy to find out that there is a website that I can access that may assist me with helping teach literacy for social studies. Yea!
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This article also provides concrete examples of students reading history like historians, which is really important. And text structure and features defintely plays into this as well. I am so glad you found something meaningful for you as a teacher and learner! Nice use of tags! (Is this for your Journal #1?)
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LeAnn, I also think it is very important that students read a textbook differently from the way they would read a novel. Having students take on the persona of a Historian I believe would help them better understand history and how it went about developing our country and our pasts as well. That is wonderful that you are searching for ways to make a more meaningful connection between the students and history textbooks.
Book Review: The Leader in Me - 7 views
Book Review: The Leader in Me by Stephen R. Covey Summary/Main Idea: Stephen Covey is also the author of the world recognized book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. In this book, s...
Journal 2: 10 Strategies to Enhance Students' memory - 5 views
Nice job picking out the highlights of--what was the article about again-- lol Seriously, some great points that apply to more than just reading.
Book Review: 7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your Kids Read and Get It - 5 views
I haven't seen too many books that are equally useful for teachers and parents. I'll have to take a look at this book. Might be something to pick up for door prizes for our parent involvement activ...
Journal #2 - Shared Reading Goes High-Tech - 5 views
You mentioned the article has "neat tips." Any that you might incorporate?
Reading Online - 3 views
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This is a great website that will assist you in finding a journal article.
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Thank you for sharing, Renee!
Book Review: After The End......Written By: Barry Lane - 7 views
If you are a English/Language Arts teacher then this book is for you. Barry Lane is brillant and creative in this book entitled, After The End. How many times do students approach two minutes after...
Sanchez Class Reading Graphic Organizers - 5 views
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Book Review: Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About it - 4 views
This definitely sounds like a worthwhile read! I often feel we kill the joy of reading by always trying to move on quickly and tie every bit to testing! I always try to carefully look at where to...
Journal 1 Building World Knowledge: Motivating Children to Read and Enjoy Informational... - 4 views
You keyed in on some very important points. Informational texts requires a somewhat different approach from narrative text, and we do have to help students learn strategies to be successful in meet...
Fiction Theater -Reading-Writing-Lesson Plans - 4 views
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