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This is an awesome collection of reading strategies. The document begins by describing different types of struggling readers and identifies a grouping of strategies later in the booklet.
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How are you teaching students to research? When students research in our library, I started noticing a disconnect between personal vs. academic research. By restricting them to academic sources have we stifled their natural curiosity? Is it the linear path we have imposed on them in the past? I have no idea…but I’m constantly thinking about it and looking for more ideas!
Right now I’ve been informally interviewing students on the processes they use when researching. Additionally, I’ve been informally interviewing myself on how I research. Here’s some things I’ve noticed:
These are my current observations and I’m interested to learn of others experiences. Do you use any strategies to move students from a linear approach to research to a more asynchronous approach?
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Lessons and resources for teachers to implement the Common Core standards – literacy, critical thinking – DBQ for elementary, middle, high school
This whole site is a great resource! Great powerpoint on DBQs for students, great lesson plans, and more. Focuses on, as the title implies, deeper reading.
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The four key elements for building critical thinking and close reading skills in history and social studies. Plus 61 pages of historic media.
Great resource for teachers struggling with integrating texts into their classroom. Attention social studies teachers!
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We’re lucky to have classes join us for the entire research process. Here’s an overview of the process we’re currently using.
Over the past year we’ve noticed some disconnect as students proceed from step to step. In particular, there’s a disconnect between the research notes and the paper. Students work hard paraphrasing, finding information, and correctly citing sources. However, when it comes to moving from notes to paper, they fall short.
So, one day as I was browsing for a couple minutes (hours) on Pinterest, I came across this blog entry: Put Some Excitement into Citations . I love the citation idea and it really got me thinking about ways to incorporate this hands on approach to teaching the research process into our library. I thought I’d share what I came up with and see if anyone has done something similar or has ideas!
Possible Lesson Plan - This is a possible lesson plan to use. It’s still in the works, but I wanted to put it out there and see if anyone had feedback. I imagine this could work as a whole unit or we could pull out little parts of it for minilessons.
Step One. Students will visit the library and receive four articles in four different colors. They will also receive an envelope with citations for the articles, each citation in a matching color. Students will also receive a guide to look at for help in organizing the citations.
Part Two. Students will receive half completed, full page, PowerPoint slides to finish with notes from the articles. These will be laminated and they can write on them with wet erase markers. This part will need to be approved by an instructor before they move on. This part may focus on paraphrasing, parenthetical citations, or both! This step offers us the opportunity to identify who is struggling and work with them to help them out. These notecards are exactly the same as the ones we use on the computer.
From here, students will combine the notecards by topic and work on moving them around to create an outline that makes sense for their paper. From this information, they can create a thesis, topic sentences, and really work on identifying how these topics fit together.
(This is a version of the notecard activity for the students to have.)
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Persuasive writing has been very popular in ELA classrooms in recent years. During a persuasive writing unit, students are typically asked to write …
As Common Core shifts writing methodology, teaching arguments will be new to some teachers. This post shares some differences between teaching persuasion and argument and what this means for the classroom.
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A great strategy for building vocabulary for any student. Using paint chips, teachers provide students with a visual aid to better understand difficult vocabulary. Covers Common Core for the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words.
This vocabulary strategy provides students with a tangible way to understand new vocabulary terms.
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Get a handle on Text Complexity with the help of Sarah Brown Wessling. See a presentation covering Text Complexity that includes the 3 part model for measuring text complexity. She also provides tips on applying Text Complexity to your classroom.
Excellent video with thorough explanation of text complexity. It’s very approachable, would be great for staff development.
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Great, explicit look at the way project pedagogy is changing.
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Excellent resource! Lots of generic graphic organizers for students to organize thinking. Colorful PDFs you can download and type directly in to the boxes. Look forward to using this with classes!
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