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Literacy Through Photography for English-Language Learners | Edutopia
Building on Freire's definition of literacy as something more than just a subject confined to a "block" -- literacy is the ability to understand both "the word and the world" -- this post includes five strategies for using non-print texts (namely, photography) in language development
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How Storytelling Inspires Children to Learn English [from Edutopia]
How does storytelling help ELL students?
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everythingESL: The K-12 ESL Resource from Judie Haynes
Judie Haynes is an ESL teacher with more than 34 years of teaching experience, who has authored and co-authored four books on ESL
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Strategies and Resources for Supporting English-Language Learners [from Edutopia]
A list of Web sites and books about supporting English-language learners
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Enter a book you like and the site will analyse a database of real readers' favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next.
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Read With Me: 5 Tips to Foster a Love for Reading [from Edutopia]
"Fostering the love of reading in your class may take a little work, but there are plenty of resources available to support you in this effort. Here are five suggestions that can help you get started with leading the 'love for reading' charge."
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Apps for Learning with Literacy
Web page companion to Beach and O'Brien's eBook, "Using iPad and iPhone Apps for Learning with Literacy Across the Curriculum"
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Formative assessment practices support both teachers and students in becoming purposeful decision makers. This article from The Council Chronicle (March 2014), published by the National Council of Teachers of English, shares insights from educators Cathy Fleischer and Scott Filkins about how educators can use formative assessment effectively. Fleischer and Filkins are, respectively, chair and member of the NCTE task force that produced the position statement Formative Assessment That Truly Informs Instruction.
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Igniting Student Writer Voice With Writing Process Strategies [from Edutopia]
This post shares a variety of strategies for pre-writing and drafting that help teachers to coach students.
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SMITH Magazine Six-Word Memoirs
"Since the Six-Word Memoir® debuted as a project of SMITH Magazine in November 2006, nearly 1 million short stories have been shared on Six-Word Memoirs and its younger cousin, SMITH Teens. In classrooms and boardrooms, churches and synagogues, veterans’ groups and across the dinner table, Six-Word Memoirs have become a powerful tool to catalyze conversation, spark imagination or break the ice."
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This is a collection of short short stories consisting of just six words. It was inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s famous challenge and first six word story, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
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Reflecting on Reflection: A Habit of Mind [from Edutopia]
You're thinking, "I planned this, and it went like this, and now I think this."Ideas for engendering more reflection, from abstraction to tangible shifts in practice.
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When High School Students Struggle with Textbook Reading [from Edutopia]
Advice from Sheila Valencia on how to scaffold content-area textbook reading
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This Linguistic Family Tree Is Simply Gorgeous
Infographic
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"Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes
Beautiful multimodal rendition of "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes
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