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Reading Is About More Than "Evidence" [commentary from Education Week]
tags: readIng ccss readerResponse
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Six Word Memoirs Can Say a Lot [from the MiddleWeb blog]
Using the Bitstrips site to write a six-word memoir and a start-of-the-year project called "Dream Scenes," in which students create a personal story that centers on their aspirations for their lives in the years ahead"
tags: digitalstorytelling comics
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Bitstrips for Schools
tags: comics digitalstorytelling
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Why kids should choose their own books to read in school [from The Washington Post "Answer Sheet" blog]
One of the most effective ways to accelerate literacy development is to simply give students access to developmentally appropriate high-interest texts and plenty of uninterrupted time to read. This column by former NCTE president Joanne Yatvin describes the heydey of independent reading and Silent Sustained Reading (SSR), two popular classroom practices that ultimately met with disfavor and fell out of use after publication of the NRP report in 2000 and the era of high-stakes testing that followed. Yatvin specifically addresses how to overcome some of the hurdles and negative perceptions of independent reading and SSR in K-12 classrooms.
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BOOKLISTONLINE.ORG
Booklist Online is a repository of thousands of book reviews from the experts at the ALA. Users can look up one title and then find what the ALA editors call "read-alikes," a range of books on one theme.
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Metacognition: The Gift That Keeps Giving [from Edutopia]
Brief post defines "metacognition" and its benefits in education and provides steps for the explicit instruction of metacognition in the K-12 classroom
tags: metacognition strategies instruction
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50 Ways to Teach With Current Events [from NYTimes.com]
50 ideas to help teachers bring current events into the classroom, grouped below by category: Reading and Writing; Speaking and Listening; Games and Quizzes; Photographs, Illustrations, Videos and Infographics; Design and Creativity; Making Connections; and Building Skills
tags: currentEvents journalism socialstudies
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On-the-Spot Scaffolding for Students | Edutopia
A brief explanation of what is "scaffolding," how scaffolding compares to "differentiating," how to know when extra scaffolding is needed, and three simple scaffolding techniques
tags: scaffolding differentiation instruction pedagogy
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The New Teachers' Aides: Superman and Iron Man [from Atlantic Mobile]
The author, an educator, describes the history of and rationale for comics in education.
tags: comics graphicNovels textSets visualLiteracy
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Reading With Pictures: Comics that Make Kids Smarter
An anthology from the Reading With Pictures people that "unites the finest creative talents in the comics industry with the nation's leading experts in visual literacy to create a game-changing tool for the classroom and beyond. This full-color volume features more than a dozen short stories (both fiction and nonfiction) that address topics in Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, and Science, while offering an immersive textual and visual experience that kids will enjoy."There is a downloadable teacher's resource on the page.
tags: comics graphicNovels textSets visualLiteracy contentLiteracy
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Reading With Pictures
A nonprofit established to get "comics into schools and schools into comics." The site includes a search tool for finding resources by grade level ad topic area. From the mission statement: "Reading With Pictures is a nonprofit organization that advocates the use of comics in the classroom to promote literacy and improve educational outcomes for all students. We work with academics to cultivate groundbreaking research into the proper role of comics in education. We collaborate with cartoonists to produce exceptional graphic novel content for scholastic use. Most importantly, we partner with educators to develop a system of best practices for integrating comics into their curriculum. At Reading With Pictures, we get comics into schools and get schools into comics."
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