An English Teacher's Toolbox
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National Poetry Competition 2013: The winning poem
National Poetry Competition 2013: The winning poem http://gu.com/p/3emh9
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My Favorite Artist - Doug Hyde
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“Getting so into a book that everything around you fades away.”
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Monday morning...
#Accurate
LOL. This is so going to be me. I still have a 3000 word assignment to complete...
University of Cambridge researchers studied the effects of hiding children’s eyes on their feelings of invisibility, and discovered some very interesting things about how young kids view their “self” versus their “body”, which you should check out.
“… it would seem that children apply the principle of joint attention to the self and assume that for somebody to be perceived, experience must be shared and mutually known to be shared, as it is when two pairs of eyes meet.”
Apparently kids only exist when you make eye contact with them. Remember that when you don’t want them to feel invisible.
Lifelong learning.
Teaching concepts!
Questioning
It is essential that pupils have the opportunity to interact and engage with texts and move beyond literal comprehension. They need to consider questions that require them to deduce, infer, justify and evaluate.
Literal questions: repeating directly, or in own words what the text…
Studies Link Students’ Boredom to Stress
A group of researchers has published a study in Perspectives on Psychological Science linking student boredom to feelings of stress. While it’s still important for teachers to create a stimulating and engaging environment, students might have some internal emotion or frustration causing their boredom.
Using Marzano Question Stems in a High School Classroom
These could easily be adapted to other levels as well. (If you’re unfamiliar with Marzano Questions: In a sentence, it’s a modified version of Bloom’s Taxonomy.)
Here are the questions that I created using Marzano’s stems. Feel free to print these out or change them up to work for you in your classroom. I plan on throwing in some specific questions for each piece of literature that we read, but this is a great place to start. Here’s how I imagine using these stems – each student gets to pick a question and answer it. Then we can do a Turn and Talk where partners discuss their questions and answers. Then we can bring it back to a whole class discussion where in a Round Robin, each student shares their question and answer. Other students can take notes on the question and their own thoughts to be shared as well.
(via readingwritingteaching)
A great classroom poster to help students understand that everyone has different needs that require different supports.
I need this.
Reblogging.
Creative Writing Prompt: Tell the story, set the scene. What’s happening here? 5 senses etc.
(via malikaaaa)
