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Student Reporting Labs Curriculum | PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs

Student Reporting Labs Curriculum | PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs | 6-Traits Resources | Scoop.it

The PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs supports teachers and young people to report on important issues in their community, creating impactful video reports for the national NewsHour Extra audience. Along with technical instruction on the use of cameras and editing equipment, this program also includes a meaningful focus on understanding the role of journalism in society and developing broader communication skills, including listening, asking questions, public speaking, and finding, analyzing and evaluating the quality of information.  

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This curriculum hits the common core writing standards squarely in the heart of the matter:  critical thinking and writing. 

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...and the 21st century skill of communication as well.

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Michael, the Student Who Inspire Me to Quit Teaching

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Here's a fine story from the teaching trenches. See how one teacher accidently got out of the way long enough for a troubled student to write himself into a new understanding of self.

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Hero's Journey - an interactive tool for story telling patterns | ReadWriteThink

Hero's Journey - an interactive tool for story telling patterns | ReadWriteThink | 6-Traits Resources | Scoop.it

A writing wizard to guide students through becoming familiar with the attributes of the classic story form of the hero's journey. Based on the work of Joseph Campbell. -JL


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Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots

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The art of mechanized storytelling, or what a cardboard robot has to do with melodrama and Law & Order.


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Penzu

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Free personal journal and online diary....


Penzu is a service that makes publishing your texts online simpler than you ever thought possible.


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Michele Weldon: Capturing authentic narratives

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Journalism can be much more than reporting. An authentic, human narrative touches audiences and keeps them reading. Learn how to shape a human-centered news story, and the importance of facts, context and heart.
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Teaching the personal narrative with a journalists point of view caputures the authenticity of voice that comes with personal experience while giving the structure and cricitcal thinking opportunties found in jouralism. 

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Free Technology for Teachers: Nine Shel Silverstein Stories Animated

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By Richard Byrne

 

"Last year I shared an animated video of Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree. Yesterday, through an Open Culture post, I discovered eight more short animated versions of Shel Silverstein's works. The videos can be found on the Shel Silverstein Books channel on YouTube. I've embedded Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too! below."


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KmSoul - 7th & 8th Writing From Kingsbury Middle School

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7 -8 Writing Samples.  Personal Narratives and poetry from teens who are now adults.  I've used these stories for scoring samples when teaching 6-Trait writing. 

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WritingFix: Genres...Narrative & Memoir

WritingFix: Genres...Narrative & Memoir | 6-Traits Resources | Scoop.it

How did this page of resources come about? The 2009-2010 school year was our Year of Narrative Writing at WritingFix and in Northern Nevada. We hosted inservice workshops for 100 lucky teacher teachers, where we gave away, read, and discussed Ralph Fletcher's How to Write Your Life Story as well as his Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid. We sponsored the creation of new narrative resources, especially for grades 3-5, since our Nevada fifth graders are tested using a narrative writing prompt. Those resources ultimately became a new print guide for all Northern Nevada teachers in March of 2011. Below, you can find out how you can obtain your own copy of our "Show Me Your Story" Print Guide.

 

On this free-to-access page of resources, you will find the best-of-the-best narrative resources that were created as part of our Year of Narrative Writing.

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