Writing to Learn in Content Areas

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WRITING TO LEARN Across Content Areas Now that more schools are considering ways to teach and utilize literacy tools to enhance instruction and increase learning across the content areas, many English Language Arts educators are being viewed as the repository for such strategies.  Remember, while schools are implementing the Common…
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Language Arts Resources

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General Overview of ELA Resources Welcome to my website. Click on any of the lines to sample explanations, assignments, and other resources to enhance teaching and improve learning.  GENERAL GRADING GUIDELINES General Grading Guidelines for Written Assignments General Grading Guidelines - SLIDES BOOK REPORTS Collage on Common Book or Story…
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Talk Teaches

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Sentence Starters Invigorate Conversation   Guided talking teaches students to think, listen, and rethink. Observing students talking teaches teachers what they need to teach next.  Here's a flyer with SENTENCE STARTERS from I found on Pinterest that may be just what you need to jump start conversations between and among students.…
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Activating Strategies for Reading

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Reading: Activating Thinking Here is a chart strategies to get students thinking about new units, new books, or new readings.  Many are interactive and though they come from a site prepared for elementary school students most can be adapted for use with students of all ages.  You'll recognize many ideas that are commonly…
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Literature Circles

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Structured Discussions Modified Literature Circles are a good way to get students to talk about literature and stay on topic.  Attached is an adaptation of the literature circle roles described by Harvey Daniels. This Literature Circle Discussion Guide is easily modified to accommodate students in different grades and for a range of…
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Resources from Other Educators

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RESOURCES TO SUPPORT YOUR TEACHING  Scroll down.  Adapt, Adopt and Enjoy! From William Younglove: Vocabulary from The Diary of Anne Frank.  Definitions and approaches to consider as you consider words to add to your needs to know, nice to know, good to know vocabulary lists. From Nancy Patterson, associate professor,…
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