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December 19, 2015
December 12, 2015
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Portraits of Struggling Readers [from Reading Rockets]
Portraits of readers that show how different students struggle, why they do so, and what you can do to help
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December 5, 2015
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Building a Curriculum of Great Classroom Talk
Lesson plan for developing discussion
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Jago avid reader [from Nerdy Book Club]
A great piece to guide self-assessment and reflection, and for drawing implications for instruction of "good readers"
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November 28, 2015
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A Curriculum Staple: Reading Aloud to Teens | School Library Journal
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"VideoAnt is a web-based video annotation tool for mobile and desktop devices. Use VideoAnt to add annotations, or comments, to web-hosted videos. VideoAnt-annotated videos are called 'Ants.'"
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November 21, 2015
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‘What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text’ [from The New York Times]
"Although I’ve played with Kindles and iPads and Nooks, and I like them all in theory, I haven’t been able to commit to any of them. As readers, they disable the thing that, to me, defines reading itself. And yet I’ve continued to hope that, in some not-too-distant future, e-reading will learn to take marginalia seriously. And it looks as if that might be happening right now."
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Annotating to Engage, Analyze, Connect and Create [The New York Times eLearning blog]
"In this post we hope to both expand their definition of what annotation can be and inspire them to experiment with new ways of doing it — in class and out."
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Collaborative annotating app that scaffolds critical thinking and enables flipped learning. Can be used with print and video.
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The best and easiest to use totally free mobile learning apps
"There are thousands of apps you can use for education. Here are the best totally FREE mobile learning apps that can be used on both Android and Mac mobile platforms."
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Ponder - the essential Online Reading App [from eLearn Hub]
"Ponder is the new online reading app that supports engagement and analyses in a super easy and fun way. Readers can question anything of interest in an online article and give feedback to the rest of the class. It’s a bit like highlighting text in a book and sharing that information. Ponder may well be the next big thing."
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"Glose is a social reader for ebooks. Choose from our huge collection of paid and free books. Read books on any device: computer, tablet, or smartphone. Engage with readers and authors through your favorite books. All in one place.
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Academic Vocabulary Lists (Corpus-based; 120 million words)
A project by linguists based at BYU. The site includes downloadable word lists as well as online interfaces for detailed information about particular words as well as feedback about inputted academic text, i.e. frequency of Tier 2 words in a text.
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Academic Vocabulary List [from the literacy beat blog]
A new online tool allows teachers and researches to analyze the academic vocabulary demands (Tier 2 vocabulary) of a piece of text
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Literacy in the Disciplines [on the literacy beat blog]
"This page is a digital home for teachers and teacher educators to find resources about literacy in the disciplines. Resources include podcasts and video interviews. What does literacy look like in mathematics, science, art, history, and many other disciplines?"
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November 14, 2015
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November 7, 2015
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Lights, Cameras, Action: Let’s Flip Your Classroom! [from ILA's Teaching withTech blog]
"We explore applications like SMART Notebook Software, Screencast-O-Matic, and EDpuzzle. I like EDpuzzle because you can upload your videos and then add questions and stopping points to assist with processing and accountability of the lesson. It also lets you know who watched the videos and how students answer your embedded questions. We practice recording videos and then design lessons for 3–5 minute flipping videos that introduce a skill or strategy while holding students accountable for the content within the video. "
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October 31, 2015
October 24, 2015
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Reflect…Reflecting…Reflection..[from Langwitches Blog]
Discusses a taxonomy of reflective questions based on the work of Peter Pappas
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Creating a Culture of Student Reflection: Self-Assessment Yields Positive Results [Edutopia]
Blog post describes one middle-school teacher's efforts to use "critique circles" for student-directed reflection and formative assessment
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Upgrade your KWL Chart to the 21st Century [from Langwitches Blog]
Explains the evolution of the tried-but-true KWL chart to the KWLHAQ chart
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Reflection in the Learning Process, Not As An Add On | [from Langwitches Blog]
Good essential questions to ask about the role of reflection in learning and assessment
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October 10, 2015
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Common Core State Standards for ELA and Literacy [from YouTube]
A very one-sided history of the Common Core Standards: the design process, key features, and major differences to the previous standards
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Literacy In The Digital Age: A Resource Guide [from Tchers' Voice blog, TeachingChannel.org]
a 5-part blog series on Web-based tools and apps for literacy teaching and learning
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10 Tech Hacks for Struggling Readers
Ignore the references to dyslexia. This article is about apps as "assistive technologies" for readers and writers of all ages, from elementary to adult. The apps and programs are available on all platforms unless noted, some are free.
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"Bookshare offers the world’s largest collection of accessible titles. As a result, people of all ages, as well as schools and many organizations around the globe can access the books they need for school, work, career advancement, skill development and the simple love of reading in formats that work for them."Free to U.S. students and schools, with paid memberships available for individuals and other organizations
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Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions
Resource page for the Question Formulation Technique at the Right Question Institute Web site
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For Students, Why the Question is More Important Than the Answer [from MindShift | KQED News]
"What would happen if the roles were flipped and students asked the questions?" A feature on the Right Question Institute, founded by Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana, and their book, "Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions."
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September 26, 2015
September 19, 2015
September 12, 2015
August 29, 2015
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Eyes on Disciplinary Literacy [from Literacy Daily blog]
"...[I]f we are knowledgeable about the distinct differences among content areas why are we using generic literacy strategies across the content areas? Generic literacy approaches across the content areas have not produced the results we have been looking for in our students’ literacy or content knowledge, skills, and performance."
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Annenberg Learner - Teacher Professional Development
A searchable library of videos, lesson plans, and interactives for teaching and teacher professional development across the disciplines
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August 22, 2015
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Reading with a Pencil in Hand: Ornamentation and Annotation [MIT Video]
I never thought about the connection between annotation and the art of illuminating manuscripts. I also never thought about annotation as a way to make inaccessible, conventional text more visual and mutlimodal!
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Study: You Really Can 'Work Smarter, Not Harder' - The Atlantic
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August 15, 2015
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Literacy in Math—Without Losing the Math [from Literacy in Learning Exchange blog]
"With the help of some wonderful facilitators at New Tech’s annual conference, we defined math literacy as, '...Students’ ability to comprehend and produce mathematical symbols (including mathematical language) in a way that shows conceptual understanding and critical thinking.'”
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July 25, 2015
June 6, 2015
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Mrs. Hilliker's ELL and SIOP Toolbox
Created by Erica Hilliker, an ELL Coordinator for Godfrey-Lee Public Schools in Michigan. A huge collection of ELL and SIOP resources for use in professional developments, conferences, trainings, and internet exploration.
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A Look at English Language Learners Across the U.S. [from Middlebury Interactive Languages]
"There are lots of wonderful online resources to help support your English language learners in the classroom. Our infographic explores the languages being spoken by English Language Learners across the U.S., as well as where those ELL students most often live and how to support them."
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May 9, 2015
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Teaching With Web-Based Resources [from Edutopia]
Ways to select, evaluate, and integrate Web sites into content-area instruction
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Those Tired Summer Reading Lists. Here’s What to Do. [from School Library Journal]
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May 2, 2015
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Five-Minute Film Festival: 8 Podcasts for Learning [from Edutopia]
Tons of resources for integrating podcasts as text
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What Meaningful Reflection On Student Work Can Do for Learning [from MindShift]
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April 25, 2015
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The American Revolution and Constitution Nonfiction [book review from MiddleWeb]
Book by Harvey & Goudvis for social studies
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April 18, 2015
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Student Helpers in the High School Classroom [form Scholastic.com]
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Provides units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly
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April 11, 2015
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Teaching for the 21st Century: Navigating the Cs of Change [from Educational Leadership]
McVerry, Zawlinski & O'Byrne describe how to adapt Palincsar & Brown's (1984) reciprocal teaching model for teaching online research and reading comprehension in this 2009 article.
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Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine [by Bing]
Yay!
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"Learning in Hand is an educator's resource for mobile and digital learning."
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April 4, 2015
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More evidence of "striking differences in the role of technology in wealthier school districts compared with poorer school districts." The technology gap in education has more to do with practices and pedagogy than hardware and networks.
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25 Attention-Grabbing Tips for the Classroom [from Edutopia]
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Connecting Readers With Reads Online [from the ILA's Literacy Daily]
"Savvy teachers build upon the power of reading recommendations. Although face-to-face conversations about favorite selections can serve as powerful reading motivators for many students, social cataloging websites allow readers to connect, share, discuss, and archive their reading suggestions within and beyond their school settings."
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Beyond Wizards and Vampires, to Sex [from NYTimes.com]
The publishing industry is reporting a sales spurt in books aimed at 18-to-25-year-olds. The "new adult" genre is longer, darker, more emotionally intense, and often more sexually explicit.
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Why are so many adults reading YA and teen fiction? [from The Guardian]
A survey in 2012 showed that 55% of YA readers are actually adults - why is this the case and is it a problem?
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March 14, 2015
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Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers | MindShift
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The searchable archive of the electronic journal published by the ILA between May 1997 and June 2005
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Disciplinary literacy [YouTube video]
Brief explanation of disciplinary literacy by Cynthia Shanahan
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4 Things You'll Miss by Banning Cellphones In Your Classroom [from CTQ]
Model responsible use and talk about consequences. And this: "Remember everything about that cell phone in your student’s pocket is vastly more powerful than the computer (link is external) used by Neil Armstrong to land on the Moon. Take advantage of that power!"
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Age of Distraction: Why It's Crucial for Students to Learn to Focus | MindShift
A rationale discussion about the myth of multitasking and the reality of partitioned attention and the importance of focus ("mindfulness"). Rather than naively condemning digital devices as a detriment to developing executive functioning and focus, the expert quoted in this post discussed the educational imperative of teaching kids "concentration abilities as part of the school curriculum." Goleman said, “The more children and teens are natural focusers, the better able they’ll be to use the digital tool for what they have to get done and then to use it in ways that they enjoy.”
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Why Teaching Mindfulness Benefits Students’ Learning | MindShift
A curriculum for helping shape and grow adolescents' prefrontal cortex, where attention ("mindfulness") and executive functioning take place. A sample mindfulness exercise is described at the end of the post.
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March 7, 2015
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"Facing History and Ourselves provides ideas, methods, and tools that support the practical needs, and the spirits, of educators worldwide who share the goal of creating a better, more informed, and more thoughtful society."
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TeachingBooks.net | Author & Book Resources to Support Reading Education
This is a proprietary Web-based service for K-12 schools, school districts, libraries, and universities. The collection contains thousands of children's and young adult books, searchable by title, author, and topic. Once you locate a book, you can click "Text Complexity Results" to see a full range of numeric leveling results. That is about all that is available for free, however. You must have a license to access all the other multimedia resources (videos, audio files), Web links (author interviews, press clippings), and PDFs (book guides, lesson plans, activities) attached to the book. It appears only family and institutional subscriptions are available and cost several hundreds of dollars.From the home page: "If you read fiction and nonfiction books in any discipline or setting, TeachingBooks.net's database of instructional materials will enliven your K-12 reading and library activities."
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Drawing Words Writing Pictures
The home site of Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, teachers and scholars of the graphic novel genre
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February 28, 2015
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Common Core’s unintended consequence? [from The Hechinger Report]
“I think the end result in five years could be a lot more flexibility for teachers to bring different sets of resources together and create from those a curriculum and set of lesson plans that really serve their kids more effectively,” said Nancy Gannon, director of State and District Instructional Materials at Student Achievement Partners.
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Failing Forward: 21 Ideas To Use It In Your Classroom [from TeachThought]
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A Conversation about Implementing Text Sets in K-12 Classrooms | Literacy in Learning Exchange
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Taking Organized Thoughts to the Cloud
"In this age of accessible digital resources, there are a variety of easy graphic organizer applications to support our students’ thinking. Students can use these tools to create graphic organizers to facilitate brainstorming ideas, create outlines, illustrate topics or concepts, and plan presentations. Many applications are either cloud-based or available for download to your iPad, iPhone, or Android, making the apps readily accessible to students."
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February 21, 2015
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Why Reading On A Screen Is Bad For Critical Thinking
By Naomi Baron, who has just published a book of her research on e-reading
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Create Easy Infographics, Reports, Presentations | Piktochart
Free infographic generator
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February 14, 2015
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SAMR [from Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything]
Schrock weaves her critical interpretation of the framework throughout her description of SAMR, which she compiled from multiple online resources.
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Creator of the SAMR framework. Dr. Puentedura posts his slides and presentations at this blog.
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January 31, 2015
January 17, 2015
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evolution of the desktop [YouTube]
Fun video to share on "going paperless"
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MiddleWeb: All About the Middle Grades
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January 10, 2015
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