My latest Diigo links (weekly)

• 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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• How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas? [from Edutopia]

  If you are a math, history, science, or art teacher, where does literacy fit into your classroom instruction? It's common to believe that literacy instruction is solely the charge of language arts teachers, but, frankly, this just is not so.

  tags: 3210 5630 disciplinaryLiteracy contentLiteracy

• Getting Started with Questions of Literacy as a Shared Responsibility [from Literacy in Learning Exchange]

  NCLE resource page for disciplinary literacies

  tags: 3210 5630

• Projects to Engage Middle School Readers [from Edutopia]

  "In middle school, we ask students to dissect texts and perform literary analysis. However, that does not mean that we have to limit how we assess their understanding of the books." This post offers five alternatives to the traditional book report.

  tags: middleSchool readIng red 5630 3210 booktrailers digitalstorytelling

• Studying With Quizzes Helps Make Sure the Material Sticks [from MindShift]

  tags: assessment

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• Reading Is About More Than "Evidence" [commentary from Education Week]

  tags: readIng ccss readerResponse

• 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

• Bitstrips for Schools

  tags: comics digitalstorytelling

• 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.

  tags: textSets readIng red

• 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.

  tags: textSets

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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."

  tags: graphicNovels comics textSets

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• Digital Storytelling with Daniel Meadows [from web2literacy]

  Filmmaker Daniel Meadows speaks succinctly and eloquently about the digital storytelling form.

  tags: digitalstorytelling

• Why Do You Abandon A Book? [from Edudemic]

  This blog post includes an infographic on the psychology of book abandonment based on the tastes and habits of users at the GoodReads social media site.The data within the infographic could be the basis for discussion on how to abandon books and how to choose better books that will maintain interest without taxing one's stamina.

  tags: readIng literature ya

• The Book With No Pictures

  If Radical Change theory "is known as a spatial/temporal theory, rooted in the belief that authors and illustrators are influenced by the time and place within which they write" Dresang, 2008), then B.J. Novak's new book is a Radical Change text, remarkably without illustrations. It is a twist on Radical Change theory in children's literature. From the publisher's site: "At once perfectly simple and ingeniously imaginative, The Book With No Pictures inspires laughter every time it is opened, creating a warm and joyous experience to share—and introducing young children to the powerful idea that the written word can be an unending source of mischief and delight."

  tags: radicalChange multimodal_composition readAloud

• Looking through a Disciplinary Lens [from the Literacy & NCTE blog]

  A great list of questions to consider as a discussion/research guide for what it really means to teach "disciplinary literacy" in your field

  tags: disciplinaryLiteracy contentLiteracy 3210 5630

• Preparing Students to Be Creators of Knowledge [from the Literacy & NCTE blog]

  A nice example of disciplinary literacy, in this case, what it means to be "scientifically literate" by the awesome Neil DeGrasse Tyson

  tags: disciplinaryLiteracy STEM video

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• Think Aloud [YouTube video]

  In this video, a 4th-grade teacher uses a think-aloud protocol for whole group instruction about text connections.

  tags: video thinkAloud comprehension strategies

• Reading Aloud to Build Comprehension [from Reading Rockets}

  "This article discusses the power of reading aloud and goes a step further to discuss the power of thinking out loud while reading to children as a way to highlight the strategies used by thoughtful readers."The article also includes sample text sets for think-alouds based on different culturally relevant topics.

  tags: comprehension readAloud thinkAloud USTU3400

• Build Custom Cloze Activities

  A tool for creating cloze activities using teacher-created text or content-area text

  tags: cloze assessment vocabulary contentLiteracy 5630 3210

• Using Think-Alouds to Improve Reading Comprehension [from Reading Rockets]

  "Students need to think while they are reading. By using modeling, coached practice, and reflection, you can teach your students strategies to help them think while they read and build their comprehension."

  tags: thinkAloud USTU3400 educ3210 strategies

• Addressing Disciplinary Literacy in the CCSS[from Literacy in Learning Exchange]

  "Inquiry is at the heart of disciplinary practices. In order for students and teachers to operate from an inquiry-based approach, teachers must recognize and make accessible to students the habits of practice used by disciplinary experts and be able to identify linguistic features specific to each discipline. The authors offer tips for choosing literacy strategies that match disciplinary goals and objectives, cultivating academic conversations academic conversations and fostering writing for argument."

  tags: disciplinaryLiteracy contentLiteracy ccss educ3210 EDUC5630

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