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This story maker would be great to use with elementary students who are learning about how words come together to create sentences and stories. The tool would be an excellent resource for students who struggle with writing and need a visual to help them see the relationship between text and pictures. It works kind of like a game, allowing students to select characters, backgrounds, plots, and items so that they can create their own stories. Students are allowed to see the images they create and, as they create these images, the story maker builds the text to tell the story so that students can see how writing comes together. Students are also given the ability to change the text and incorporate animations. Finally, students are given a code that lets them share the story they created with others.

I've used this many times in my classroom. The students love it!

Would use this for an in-service with teachers that focuses on determining text complexity

Stories for Students from past issues of "Beyond Penguins & Polar Bears" to print and use with students in K-1, 2-3, 4-5 in text only, illustrated book, and electronic book formats

Stories for Students from past issues of "Beyond Penguins & Polar Bears" to print and use with students in K-1, 2-3, 4-5 in text only, illustrated book, and electronic book formats

Stories for Students from past issues of "Beyond Penguins & Polar Bears" to print and use with students in K-1, 2-3, 4-5 in text only, illustrated book, and electronic book formats. Share with 2nd grade teachers for use with their Antarctica/polar animals unit!!!

This lesson could work with the presidential campaign. High school level. Students consider a visual text and draw conclusions based on what they see. They explain their conclusions by explaining the evidence used to make that determination.

Tool for texting parents

Great resource for writing teachers of all ages for mentor texts to use when teaching writing skills to students.

Language: Material Type: Activities and Labs, Interactive Media Format: Graphics/Photos, Interactive, Text/HTML Technical requirements: Shockwave Player required Abstract: Doodle Splash combines the process of drawing with analytical thinking by pairing online drawing with writing prompts that encourage students to make connections between their visual designs and the text.

Discovered lesson through OER. Related to research for this class; to be used to strengthen teacher understanding of instruction with ebooks.

Shared during staff development as a way to improve digital note taking by students.

Open source diary and journal software for Linux, Windows and Mac. A simple calendar-based journal for students that can help tame unruly piles of digital paper. Students can use RedNotebook to organize notes by class or unit of study. A neat feature is the ability to export journal entries, as text or PDF, by date range or by tag

This unit shows instructional approaches that are likely to help ELLs meet new standards in English Language Arts. Built around a set of famous persuasive speeches, the unit supports students in reading a range of complex texts. It invites them to write and speak in a variety of ways and for different audiences and purposes.

I was looking for ideas to add to our immigration unit. This was full of ideas! I found 7 different lesson plans that contained videos, text, hands on research/analyzing/presenting activities complete with rubrics! The one I found most interesting was looking more at current immigration issues, and with countries bordering the US.

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I am going to try this with my students. I have them reading Hamlet (graphic novel) and they love it. This will give them an opportunity to write and analyze the text/characters even more.

I really like that this lesson has K-5 lesson plan options. It is a lesson about how to search non fiction text better for finding information during research lesson. It has a video on how you should be taking notes which is really nice since students usually don't know what they can get rid of in their notes and end up plagiarizing at times

This is a great lesson to use with elementary students to analyze text and meet Common Core standards. I liked that this lesson also uses Amelia Bedelia because you can then also discuss language and meaning and how her chores are always funny since she is literally doing what she hears.

Provides ELA teachers with an example of how to use an ebook within the classroom. Allows students to highlight text and take notes.

Students can discuss text-dependent questions to promote an understanding of the story's character. This resource features a trading card creator for each significant character in the story.