Your students are bright, but they don’t always sound like it. Their diction is full of cliche and emaciated language that doesn’t reflect their inner voice, nor does it indicate their vocabulary level. You want…
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What Close Reading Actually Means
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education What is close reading? As I said in my previous blog post, whatever it is it differs from a personal response to the text. Here is what the Common Core ELA Standards…
Common Core Assessment: When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education Common Core Assessment: When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension Readers of the blog no doubt know that the title of this post refers to the general discussions taking…
How To Create A Custom Search Engine For Your Students
While many teachers embrace the chaos of digital research (it is the “real world,” after all), for others setting students loose on Google is a recipe for a research project chock-full of Yahoo! Answers and…
10 Brilliant Examples Of Sketch Notes: Notetaking For The 21st Century
Sketch notes–or graphic notes, or whatever other term you like–are one of the single most important developments in note-taking history. Hold on, give me a second to explain. Exactly why they matter has something to…
8 Apps For Struggling Adolescent Readers
by Hope Mulholland, TeachThought Intern One of my most important tasks as a reading teacher is matching students to books that they will love. For struggling readers, that can be more challenging because they don’t…
Catching Up With The Kids: Moving School Libraries Into The New Media Era
Catching Up With The Kids: Moving School Libraries Into The New Media Era Libraries have done a world of good for schools. They provide a self-directed learning environment and a quiet place to work and…
3 Digital Tools For Common Core Academic Vocabulary
3 Digital Tools For Common Core Academic Vocabulary by Susan Oxnevad first appeared on gettingsmart.com The Common Core identifies six instructional shifts needed to effectively implement the standards in ELA/Literacy. Shift 6 suggests an instructional change in the teaching of…
Apps For Learning Spotlight: The Gnome & The Sheep
Apps For Learning: The Gnome & The Sheep (English) (Arabic) Platform: iOS (Android available soon) Price: Free Grade Levels: K-5 Content Area: Reading/Literacy Developer Description: “Deep in the lush, green forests live the gnome and his sheep, happily,…
15 Digital Tools For Rhyming & Wordplay
by Kenney Meyers Rhyming words are fun, but some words will leave you tongue-tied trying to find a suitable partner. Anyone who has ever dabbled in poetry will tell you that meter is a refined…
40 Interesting Ways To Use Word Clouds For Learning
If we’re being honest (and we are), we were of the opinion that the primary use of word clouds for learning–most notably with Wordle and Tagxedo-were to help support the analysis of diction and tone. There were…
How A Focus On Pre-K Can Benefit Education
by Justin Marquis, Ph.D. Why are we always so resistant to spending money on education? The primary response to the President’s State of the Union Address call for universal preschool has been for people to question how it…
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