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EDUC 653 Middle School through Adult 6-Traits Writing Instruction EDUC 654 PK Through Elementary 6-Traits Writing Instruction Learn to teach and assess writing with the 6-Traits of writing: - voice
- ideas
- word choice
- organization
- sentence fluency
- conventions
Do you want to engage your students and build a great writing program? This class provides a plethora of practical methods and inspirational ideas.
Third grade poetry centers are one way to immerse students in the different literary devices and figurative language we find in poems.
Who doesn’t love a colorful word cloud? But what I don’t love is the time it takes to input all of the words to create one. My motto is that students should do the work in our classroom, not me. Well, I work a little, but I don’t want to do the lion’s share of the work. The person doing the work is doing the learning, so my students do the heavy lifting in our classroom. That’s why I was so excited when I discovered Mentimeter!
"...we are thrilled to announce the new Educating for Democracy Deep Dive developed by the Teaching Channel and the Civic Engagement Research Group at the University of California, Riverside. The Deep Dive is a curated collection of videos accompanied by educational resources, blogs, and articles related to preparing youth for civic and political life in the digital age. It provides educators with the opportunity to see key aspects of civic learning and digital media learning in action. It also provides avenues for educators and their students to explore the ways in which our civic, political, and digital lives are inextricably linked in the 21st century.
"For example, there are videos and resources that highlight various ways educators can integrate civic learning in line with the following essential questions:
-INVESTIGATION & RESEARCH: How do I help students research issues that matter to them? -CIVIC KNOWLEDGE: How do I help further students’ civic knowledge and understanding? -DISCUSSION: How do I help students have productive discussions about current and controversial issues? -VOICE: How can students voice their perspective on issues that matter to them? -ACTION: What are effective ways to take action in the digital age? -LEARN MORE: Where can I learn more and find resources?"
Via Jim Lerman
This conversation with George Ella Lyon and Julie Landsman, hosts of the I Am From Project, is about countering divisions of race, culture, and background through poetry, artwork, videos, music, and dance.
We begin with Voice, because more than any other trait, it seems to intimidate or confuse teachers and parents. Voice: What is it? Can it be taught? How do we explain Voice to the parent who says, "I never had it when I was in school!"? to edit the content
6+1 Trait Writing Lesson Plans on Organization. How many times have you reviewed beginning of the year essays and felt frustration and rising panic as you see page after page of scribbled words with no paragraphs, no titles, and only the most rudimentary sense of sentence structure? Where do you begin? Unschooled student writing can be overwhelming and daunting to the most experienced teacher. However, if you understand the 6+1 Traits TM system, you will know what to do and how to go about it.
Few sources available today offer writing teachers such succinct, practice-based help—which is one reason why 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing was the winner of the Association of Education Publishers 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award for Instructional Materials.
This national project uncovers the patterns that bind us, no matter where we came from or how long we’ve been here. Explore stories from across the country, upload the story of an object that carries meaning in your family, and join us in telling the story of American immigration and migration.
Writing isn't that hard. We can all do it, one word after next, little baby steps until a whole thought is complete. Writing so people will care is pretty darn difficult though, especially in an age where we are constantly besieged by words and ideas on email, social media and whatever news sources are best at forcing themselves in front of our eyes.
Still, the need is there. In fact, there has perhaps not been a more important time for educators to share their stories.
I've been writing about teaching heavily for the last five years, and I've learned things. I've learned the things that have been the difference between having a few people read a piece and a few hundred thousand. I've learned about the honest desire from many to hear directly from teachers as well as the desire of some to use teacher voices for their own needs.
I've learned about haters, and I've learned how amazing it is to hear how you've impacted or supported a colleague you've never met before.
So, then, here are some quick lessons to think about when you are ready to share your stories and ideas more broadly, whether you are thinking of submitting to a website, starting your own blog, or sending in a letter to the editor. Let me know when they're done; I'd love to read and share them.
Things to do:
Via Jim Lerman
A blog about the use of educational technology in language learning and teaching
Nik Peachey shares some of the tools you can use to help your students tell their own exciting stories through digital media, plus fun tasks to help develop their narrative abilities further.
LISTEN, WRITE AND READ Sentences for Sight Word Dictation is a collection of the specific sentences I used for this instruction, arranged by grade level. A series of five activity books provide students with an illustration of each sentence. The illustrations were designed to have universal appeal to students of all ages. The illustrated sentences have been translated into Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Modern Standard Arabic, and Russian.
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Thursday, October 19, 2017 Type: Resource Educator, poet, and NWP Writers Council member, Shirley McPhillips, reflects on a legendary English teacher who taught her that the written word has the power to make sense of the world, and to foster human connection and joy.
UNESCO has declared March 21st to be World Poetry Day, and I thought I’d bring together a few related resources — some which I’ve already posted about in the past and others that are new:
This year I have posted several blogs about grading and assessment. I encouraged teachers to stop taking grading home for two simple reasons:
Latest news from the National Writing Project.
Fresh resources to help you teach and assess writing with the 6+1 Traits! Links to lesson plans, sample papers, mentor texts, and our online graduate course in teaching and assessing with the traits.
Lanise Jacoby has a vintage page of great resources about six traits writing. Oldies and Goodies galore!
Anchor charts are a great way to make thinking visible as you record strategies, processes, cues, guidelines and other content during the learning process. Here are 25 of our favorite anchor charts for teaching writing.
Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education
Via Cindy Rudy, John Evans
In an age where our children swipe, pinch and tap on smartphones and tablets from birth, is the “hand” in “handwriting” about to be removed forever? And are there any benefits to good old-fashioned pen and paper: artistic posterity, cognitive benefits, or something else?
Via Nik Peachey
Quest lets you make interactive story games. Text adventure games like Zork and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Gamebooks like the Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy books. You don't need to know how to program. All you need is a story to tell. Your game can be played anywhere. In a web browser, downloaded to a PC, or turned into an app. Get started now for free, or find out more below.
Are your characters dry, lifeless husks? Writing effective description is the secret to breathing new life into them. Author Rebecca McClanahan shares 11 secrets.
Via Lynnette Van Dyke, Jim Lerman
There are tons of reference sites on the web that can help you find a job or write a poem, essay or story. Here is a list of the best 50 websites for writers.
inkle is looking to bring interactive stories to the classroom, and give teachers free and simple get-stuck-right-in software to use with their students.
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Ideas for your writer's workshop.