General Links:
NCTE - National Council of Teachers of English TextProject - a resource page with strategies, resources and texts to help students and teachers Reading: SMART vocab games Research Without Copying- a presentation from Liz Allen 4 lessons on teaching nonfiction literacy skills from ASCD Teaching students how to read nonfiction material -- from understanding an expert's bias to learning how to be active readers -- is an important component of Common Core State Standards, educator Bill Ferriter writes in this blog post. Ferriter shares four assignments and includes links to the handouts he uses to teach nonfiction writing skills to his sixth-grade science class. Center for Teaching Quality/Tempered Radical blog (5/20) Vocabulary: http://www.etymonline.com/ - Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago. Writing: 6 Trait chart - a chart that shows how to convert 6 Trait numbers to percentages Kid friendly 6 Trait questions to ask - a list of questions for students to self-assess Kid friendly 6 Traits - a checklist 6 Trait Scoring/Range finding - a description of scoring methods http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/process.html http://usatermpapers.com/process_essay.htm http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/process.htm |