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Carolyn Beyer

ReadingQuest | Reading Strategies for Social Studies - 0 views

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      Found this site while searching for instructional strategies for my group research project. There are a lot of awesome strategies on this site!!! I found some of the ones that we've covered in class, but there's a bunch of new ones too. I bookmarked this site, and I recommend that you all do too. :)
Michaela Klusman

Classroom Simple: The Actual Twitter Board - 3 views

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    This is such a cool way to close a lesson, a unit, or a school day!  
Jamie Facine

EL Civics for ESL Students - 0 views

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    I found this site that has free reading worksheets and short stories that are geared towards beginning ESL students reading levels. It incorporates lifeskills lessons as wells as geography, history, holidays, and famous Americans. It seems like a great resource for social studies. I actually found a worksheet with a camping theme to use with our "Camp-Reads-A-Lot" theme day we are doing tomorrow. This particular worksheet has a paragraph, true/false questions, personal questions, and a little writing section. I also found a worksheet about the American Flag, which is great, because we are studying American symbols. This worksheet has 3 paragraphs of information about the flag, true/false questions, and a Daily Oral Language type "correct the sentence" section. These aren't something I would use in isolation, but they are a great resource for adding to and differentiating instruction.
Jamie Facine

Symbaloo Website Corkboard - 0 views

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    This website allows you to create a "corkboard" page where you can link all your favorite websites for your students to use.
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    http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/mrsfacineatoia?searched=true This is the link to the Symbaloo page I created!
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    Well done, Jamie! This could also be a way to curate resources for a content unit.
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    What an interesting idea! I would love to create one for the math classes I teach. I always have parents asking what they can do at home for review. Having a central location for them to go to would be a great educational tool. Thanks for sharing.
Carolyn Beyer

Teaching ideas! - 1 views

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      A Pinterest page that has a whole bunch of teaching ideas, including a ton of Dr. Seuss stuff to get ready for Seuss month!
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    I am so addicted to pinterest, and can't belive how many awesome ideas are out there. I always do green eggs and ham with my first graders and many other activities to celebrate Dr. Seuss, but found some new ideas!
Jamie Facine

Oral Language Development - 0 views

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    PowerPoint that talks about OLD and some techniques to use including vocabulary development activities. Describes the 3 tiers of vocab words as well.
Anna Scott

Reading Instruction in the Elementary Classroom - 0 views

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    Here is a very helpful link. It talks about all of the ways to teach reading in the elementary classrooms. It describes shared reading, readers theater, and guided reading just to name a few. I found it very helpful and a great resource,
Jamie Facine

Reading: Switching Gears -- Reading Across the Curriculum Content Areas - 0 views

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    Love Steve Peha, he writes like he speaks! Very interesting blurb about teaching reading in the content areas. I like that I am trying to focus more on non-fiction in my room, as was mentioned here, but realized I need to really make it explicit the differences between reading fiction and non-fiction.
Jamie Facine

Kindle App on PC/laptops - 0 views

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    This article, I found on www.lauracandler.com explains how one teacher with limited resources for chapter books, downloaded a Kindle app to all the computers she has available to her classroom and pays the Kindle price for a book and it can be pulled up on all those computers... at the same time. She even uses it as whole group hooked up to her projector.
Anna Scott

Math and Literature - 0 views

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    This is a great resource for picture story books that can be integrated into math.  This site primarily lists books for lower el.  There are books that can teach money, counting, graphing, and measurement just to name a few. 
Lauren Scherr

English/Language Arts classes in Middle School and High School - 0 views

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    This site has a lot of good resources pulled together for teachers to use to find high-interest reading pieces for teaching to students such as Aesop's Fables, word-a-day, and comic strips. It seems really useful! Language Arts resources for lesson preparation, for teachers, parents, and students, Internet4Classrooms
Lauren Scherr

Twenties/Great Gatsby Resources - 3 views

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    Our group's Weebly site with teacher resources and lesson plans for teaching about the 1920's as well as the novel, "The Great Gatsby"
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    I thought I posted this but apparently I didn't share it to the group! Yikes!
Lauren Scherr

Reading Comprehension Activities - Special Ed. - 1 views

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    This article gives several ideas of activities that can be used to help increase reading comprehension with special education students, but they are designed for different learning styles and, I think, would work well with all students! The article is structured as a simple number for each activity so it's very easy to follow. Ideas suggested here fall into the Bloom's Taxonomy of questions and can be used with picture books, short stories, novels or individualized reading for students of all ages. Many ideas do not involve written answers which work best with students with learning difficulties. The activities listed promote comprehension.
Lauren Scherr

12 Practical Lit Tips - 0 views

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    This is an article about an elementary school reading specialist who works with teachers to help improve literacy in her school. In the article she gives 12 "lit tips" to help students with reading and writing. Most are geared towards elementary students, but they are very practical and some could also have applications in a secondary classroom. I especially like the "CUPS" tip for proofreading writing, check Capitalization, Understanding, Punctuation and then Spelling to ensure good writing. Very easy to remember!
Anna Scott

Literacy & Learning: Reading in the Content Areas - 0 views

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    This site contains lessons and techniques to use in grades 5-8.  It provides you with ideas how to help students improve reading skills. Although strategies are targets to one content area most of them can be used in several.  This site gives a lot of the same strategies that were given in chapter 5 of our textbook.
anonymous

Beyond the Yellow Highlighter: Teaching Annotation Skills to Improve Reading Comprehension - 0 views

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    Carol Porter-O'Donnell wrote this great article that helps students use the technique of annotating to help students improve reading comprehension. Before reading this article, I was pretty unfamiliar with what annotating is. This article is well written and gives excellent strategies that will help your students increase comprehension. I highly recommend reading this article if you have time.
Scott Ceglarek

Identifying Our Basic Psychological Needs - 0 views

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    This website text is about teachers learning to motivating students during this new era of standards. Student's psychological needs are some of the most important aspects of education. We want to understand why some students come to school prepared to learn while others are not. Why are our dropout rates at the rate they are? With standards on the rise and all of the other factors associated with a student's education coming into play we can be leaving our students at a great risk. Knowing what their needs are can help ease this risk. With this knowing how to motivate students, their need for competence, need for belonging, need for feelings of usefulness, satisfying the need to build optimism, and need for feeling potency can help not only students but schools overall. They are all part of the CBUPO Theory. This is not easy to achieve but it is possible.
Scott Ceglarek

Attachment in the Classroom - 0 views

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    This article is about teacher-student relationships. The student-teacher relationship is one of the most important factors of teaching that can be neglected. The article found that enhancing teacher-student relationships is necessary to raising student achievement because that achievement is linked to adolescent's need of having secure attachments. This is like students attachments to parents, but only with teachers. Thus research has shown that students with secure attachments do better in school. It also offers some ways in which teachers can improve teacher-student relations. Some of these methods include having an increased sensitivity and have positive interactions with students, to be well-prepared for class and hold high expectations for students, be responsive to students and provide choices whenever possible, and help students be kind, helpful and accepting of one another. By understanding the roles in which teachers have in their relationships with students will help educators become more effective.
Scott Ceglarek

Peer Relationships | Education.com - 0 views

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    This article is about teachers developing positive peer relationships in the classroom. Peer relationships and the experiences associated with them are an important aspect of the development of a children and adolescents. These experiences happen on different levels that include general interactions with peers, friendships, and in groups. With friendship it can serve the function of providing self worth, affection, building of relationships. Having supports help with personal problems, parents, being active. Peer groups are intimate groups of peers who interact regularly. Many peers groups according to research have shown to have similar GPA's, college aspirations, time spent on homework, and general engagement in school. Sociometric status is unique because it concerns overall peer acceptance. So if a child or adolescent is popular, average, neglected, rejected, and controversial has a major effect on one's peer relationships. All of these levels one's peer relationships such as the ways they develop, the experiences that come from them, and the types of pressures associated with them.
Scott Ceglarek

Education World: Tools for Teaching - 0 views

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    This article that I found I thought was very useful with new teachers developing classroom rules and procedures. Without the proper classroom routines and procedures in place a teachers classroom can be much different than they would want it to be. Noise levels, classroom wandering, and time being wasted can all occur. These things can be fixed but not by just announcing that no talking, staying in your seat, and staying on task are to be expected. These must be taught. The use of visual cues such as stop and start hand gestures as well as a gesture to say stop and start over if the procedure was not done correctly. By practicing the routine to mastery, students become aware that you are trying convey that this practice is important to their behavior. Establishing high standards is easier than having low standards. To show this, one must realize that reinforcement for bad behavior must come from the peer group. Research has reportedly shown that effective teachers show that they use the first few weeks of school teaching classroom rules. This is being proactive in your classroom.
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