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Nothing Gold Can Stay by Kathleen Stern Recently, I revamped a poetry analysis lesson using feedback from the other Transition Fellows. I asked my seventh grade students to analyze the poem “Nothi... 
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Reading Like a Historian: Text, (Math) Textbooks, and Ideology Textbooks as History As a historian, analyzing textbooks from different places and time periods is fascinating to me. I love being abl...
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Cultivating Discussion Skills in Literature Circles by Abi Frost and Kathleen Stern Why Discussion Skills? Discussion skills are easy to neglect, especially when there are so many reading and writi...
Allie Spickermann's curator insight,
June 22, 2016 10:05 PM
There are a lot of aspects of lit circles that can transfer into other aspects of the curriculum, but discussion skills can also transfer into the "real world." This article is also an example of a specific skill that teachers can use lit circles to focus on in their classroom.
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Analyzing Sources in Science: Using Facts, Reasoned Judgment, and Speculation to Determine Reliability By Christine Schepeler Determining the reliability of a source is important throughout all dis...
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The Evolution of Writing in a Math Classroom by Jawad Brown The Standards insist that instruction in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language be a shared responsibility within the school...
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What’s In a Word? On Vocabulary Instruction by Kathleen Stern As a middle school reading teacher, I constantly find myself thinking, “If my students knew the meaning of more words, they would be be...
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Division of Fractions Before and After Common Core by Bridget Adam Before Common Core Math Standards from Massachusetts (2000): MA6.N.9 Select and use appropriate operations to solve problems inv...
Jennifer Shackles's curator insight,
January 18, 2014 9:11 AM
The addition of the precise language and visuals is what we have been telling teachers to do for years for both the ELLs and native speakers. I appreciate the fact that it is supported by the deeper thinking required of the CCSS.
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Over the last few years in my seventh grade reading class, I’ve asked students to do more visual analysis and creation. This has nothing to do with the fact that my twin sister is a talented artist...
Dr. Dea Conrad-Curry's curator insight,
December 12, 2013 9:32 AM
My comment on the blog: Thanks for sharing. I appreciate the work you are doing to tie the process of reading alphabetic words to images representing the connection among those words and your sharing the images of student work. You are so right about all you say…our brain sees in images not in words…well, at least most brains. Your activities help students to become metacognitive and this type of reflection builds thinking skills. Another use of image-making is to ask students to draw what they intend to write before actually writing…for many students, this helps clarify and organize thoughts rambling around in their head, especially the struggling writer challenged to generate words. Just another though. |
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Flipping the Classroom ... with note-taking by Christine Schepeler Notes in science can be very scaffolded. In 7th grade we start the year off with very basic note taking skills: copying down note...
Dr. Dea Conrad-Curry's curator insight,
September 30, 2014 8:50 AM
The examples come from science, but these strategies are applicable across disciplines.
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The 40-Year-Old Paperboy by Peter Sipe When I was in 6th grade, my parents, displeased with my less than Stakhanovite approach to labor, signed me up to deliver a weekly local, the Parkway Transcri...
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How do you teach data distribution to 11 year olds?? by Bridget Adam The 6th grade Common Core Standard, 6.SP.5, is incredibly daunting (see below). It is the first time students are asked to anal...
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Written Conversations about Reading: Reader Response Journals by Abi Frost I am sure all teachers can agree that one of the best parts about teaching is seeing how students use what we teach when t...
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hat #edchat #commoncore #ccss Simulations: Integrating the Standards by Brooke Feldman Without the ability to travel time and visit distant lands, one of the best ways to engage middle school students in history is through simu...
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Growing Writers in Science by Christine Schepeler The Challenge of Writing in Science I spend a lot of time as a science teacher thinking about how to effectively integrate writing standards while ...
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Make Your Students “Poetry Geniuses”! by Abi Frost I recently discovered a web resource called “rap genius”. This Brooklyn-based startup allows users to explore and understand the meaning behind...
Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain's comment,
December 19, 2013 10:21 AM
Before you use this tool with students, learn to use it. Many of the rap lyrics are not appropriate for MS (at least not to read in print...). Many of the annotations are crude - are these good models? Also, strongly consider citations for images and poem texts - without these, we are teaching annotation, yes, but also how poor digital citizenship. And where is the conversation? It might cost more, but that would make the tool more useful. VoiceThread does the same thing, by the way, in a cleaner environment.
KB...Konnected's curator insight,
February 3, 2014 8:53 PM
Looks interesting. Further investigation required.
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How families and educators can work together to help students transition to Common Core State Standards and achieve success.
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