evaluation – Teaching English Language Arts

Values Influence Reading, Writing and Viewing

January 8, 2016January 8, 2016 by admin

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One way you can have your students step back a moment before they begin looking at articles, viewing video clips, and writing summaries and abstracts about controversial issues is to have a short presentation on values and look at how what we value, think is important to and for us, influences our behavior…

Prepare in the Fall for Spring Assessments

August 20, 2015September 8, 2015 by admin

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Practice Debates ⇒Argumentative Essays Meeting Common Core State Standards is not the only reason to have students learn to think about claims, reasons, counter-aguments, and evidence. The four major assessments students will face in the near future ask them to show they know to read deeply and write an organized…

Pattern Writing

April 5, 2014May 24, 2014 by admin

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Commemorative Essay about Favorite Author A commemorative essay is a type of writing that celebrates or simply analyzes an important figure or event in the past. People often write commemorative essays as tributes on the anniversary or centennial of a person's date of birth, date of death or the date…

On Leadership – April

March 16, 2014April 17, 2014 by admin

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Bad Doesn't Have to Be Permanent* No matter how experienced we are, there are times we blow it. But, that bad time doesn’t have to poison relationships with those with whom we work and for whom we have the responsibility to lead. These excerpts from Bill Rosenthal on October 30th, 2013…

K-37 Critical Literacy: Multiple Approaches to Text and Media -NCTE 2013 –

November 23, 2013December 4, 2013 by admin

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Nine Yardsticks of Value Thanks for coming to the presentation or for visiting today about the presentation at NCTE 2013 in Boston. Click the slide for the slides.

Student Feedback to Peer Speeches

March 25, 2013October 29, 2013 by admin

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Student Feedback to Speeches Planning Speech Presentation for Efficient Student Feedback (See variety of feedback forms below) To help student focus on various aspects of public speaking by classmates, for each round of speeches, I ask students to complete one section of our speech check list each day they are…

Assign Alternative Book Reports

November 11, 2011November 29, 2011 by admin

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With or without using technology, book reports don't have to be same old, same old, same old thing. See the NY Times Learning Network for alternative ways to engage students in reading, then writing and talking about books. Remember to include non-fiction titles on your lists of suggested books.

PREZI on POETRY

November 9, 2011November 29, 2011 by admin

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Lisa Westbrook has used an on-line program, PREZI to design an engaging lesson to introduce students to poetry analysis. See ways you can enhance your instruction by adapting or adopting this technology to present these concepts. Check out TPCASSSTT Poetry Analysis by Lisa Westbrook.

Monkey Bridge – in class writing

November 8, 2011September 7, 2013 by admin

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Autobiographical Fiction Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao is an autobiographical novel that I enjoyed teaching to high school seniors because it introduced them to life in Vietnam before, during, and after the Vietnamese War when a twelve year old girl immigrates to the United States in 1975. This in-class assignment…

Abstract Term Speech – Self-Check Pre-Evaluation

October 28, 2011September 7, 2013 by admin

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Public Speaking - Self-Check An important skill to learn is the ability to know when you're meeting requirements of an assignments whether in school or on the job. Using this ABSTRACT Term Speech - Self-Check is a good way for students to practice that skill. When I provided this kind of…