My latest Diigo links (weekly)

• Science News for Students [from the Society for Science]

  "Science News for Students (SNS) is an award-winning free online publication dedicated to students, parents, and teachers that connects the latest in scientific research to in and out-of-classroom learning. It was launched in 2003 as Science News for Kids by the Society as a youth edition and companion to Science News magazine, with content tailored to be accessible and interesting to student scientists and serves as the flagship publication of the Student Science section of SSP’s website. SNS offers timely, interesting news stories and features, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, and web resources."

  tags: STEM textSets resources 3210 5630

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• Tackling the Misconceptions of Text Dependent Questions

  Good advice for understanding the "text-dependent question" buzzword: "Students need lots of opportunities to ask their own questions and develop their own interpretations of text."

  tags: ccss assessment questioning 3210 5630 USTU3400

• How Storytelling Inspires Children to Learn English [from Edutopia]

  Storytelling in the K-12 classroom and its benefits for ELL students

  tags: ELL strategies ELA USTU3400 3210

• Standards Spotlight: Mastering Reading Standard 5 [from Getting Smart blog

  How and why to teach text features. It was important before the Core Standards mandate. Ray Reutzel explains why.

  tags: textFeatures ccss 3210 5630 red

• The Best Children's Books!

  A collection of themed text sets created by teachers and for teachers

  tags: textSets USTU3400 5630 3210 resources

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• Standards Spotlight: Mastering Reading Standard 7 [from Getting Smart]

  A good argument for text sets, even if it's framed by Core Reading Standard #7

  tags: red ccss textSets 5630 3210

• Setting the Stage [Reading Rockets video]

  A video about the social dimensions of prereading strategies with high-interest texts, but also a good demo of how to introduce think alouds

  tags: thinkAloud contentLiteracy minilesson strategies 3210 5630 USTU3400 video

• Developing Theories Of Characters While Reading [TeachingChannel video]

  A video demonstrating a minilesson and a teacher-modeled think aloud

  tags: thinkAloud minilesson 3210 5630 USTU3400

• ‘Multiple intelligences’ are not ‘learning styles’ [from The Washington Post Answer Sheet blog]

  Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory includes 8 intelligences, and possibly even more according to Gardner himself. However, over the decades, he has become increasingly dismayed at the practice in K-12 to lump his theory with another trend, called "learning styles." Over time, “multiple intelligences” became synonymous with “learning styles.” In this Answer Sheet blog post, Garner, as guest columnist, seeks to set the record straight.

  tags: multipleIntelligences pedagogy instruction

• Ready, set, blend! [inforgraphic from ISTE]

  tags: blendedLearning

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• 6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use With Your Students | Edutopia

  Six scaffolding strategies for K-12 and a good explanation of "scaffolding" vs. "differentiation"

  tags: scaffolding differentiation instruction pedagogy

• Making the Most of Mentor Texts [from Reading.org]

  "'The Writing Thief' author Ruth Culham led a passionate discussion on mentor texts Oct. 28 as part of the International Reading Association’s first Google Hangout on Air.... The discussion covered a number of topics, including how to motivate reluctant writers and how exactly to use mentor texts in the classroom, regardless of text length....Culham said she finds mentor texts every day, whether it’s picture books or signs at the zoo."

  tags: mentorTexts writing red textSets 3210 USTU3400 5630 literature

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• Novels on Location - Read Your Way Around the World [from Richard Byrne's blog]

  "The idea behind Novels on Location is to help readers find novels according to the story's geographical settings. When you visit Novels on Location you can find novels by clicking on the placemarks that you see or by using the location search bar in the upper, right corner of the site. If you want to contribute to Novels on Location you can do so very quickly by simply entering a location then entering the title and author of your favorite book set in that location."

  tags: socialstudies literature ELA textSets

• College Readiness: Writing to Learn [from Edutopia]

  A nice discussion on writing to learn (as distinguished from "writing to think"); very valuable post for future reference, if for nothing else than the well laid out distinction of "reflective" versus "reflexive" writing

  tags: writing

• Start a Reading Revolution: Flip Your Class With Blogs [from Edutopia]

  What does flipped learning look like in a literacy classroom? Basically this blog post describes the reading/writing workshop model gone "high-tech," with students creating blog posts from home on topics of their choosing.

  tags: blogs flippedLearning writing readIng

• The best way for students to become writers [from the The Answer Sheet blog]

  Guest columnist, Janet Yatvin, discusses the reading-writing connection and mentor texts: "More than lessons on how to write an effective argument or an informational piece students need to immerse themselves in the worlds of stories, poems, myths, fables, business letters, opinion and information essays, advertisements, instructional manuals, newspaper articles, memoirs, biographies, and whatever else captures their interest."

  tags: mentorTexts textSets 3210 5630 USTU3400 writing

• Warning! Rigor without Relationship Will Fail: An Interview with Joseph Murphy [from Literacy in Learning Exchange]

  Dr. Joseph Murphy, Professor of Education at Vanderbilt's Peabody College of Education and Human Development

  tags: 5630 humanDevelopment schoolreform

• Travel the World From Your Classroom: Free iPad Apps for Virtual Field Trips [from Edutopia]

  Virtual field trips for thematic text sets

  tags: textSets iPad apps

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