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NEW RESOURCES: Video Training Modules!!!
I am super-excited to report that I’ve been designing video training modules to support literacy instruction!!! These brief but informative modules cover key topics that I’ve been presenting on and writing about for the past decade, and they are now … Continue reading
Posted in Comprehension, Inference, Main Idea, Paraphrasing, Presentations, Professional Development, Quadrant Analysis, Reading, Resources, Summarizing, The Literacy Cookbook BOOK, TLC Website Resources, Video Training, Vocabulary, Vocabulary in Context
Tagged Comprehension, Inference, Main Idea, Paraphrasing, Professional Development, Reading, Resources, Summarizing, The Literacy Cookbook BOOK, TLC Website Resources, Video Training, Vocabulary, Vocabulary in Context
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Looking for Essential Literacy Work PD? SIGN UP NOW!
If you are looking for professional development support on Essential Literacy Work, I encourage you to attend my full-day training session at NJPSA/FEA on Oct. 2 from 9am-3pm! Here’s the link for more information: http://njpsa.org/documents/pdf/PDCalFall2017-web.pdf Here’s the blurb: PARCC ELA … Continue reading
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Essential Literacy Work Before You Begin Test Prep
Here are some things to work on before you begin preparing students for the genre of standardized testing this year: Review/teach The Comprehension Process using the TLC Comprehension Process Staircase here. You will need an anchor chart of this process … Continue reading
Posted in Argument, Assessment(s), Close Reading, Compare and Contrast, Comprehension, Evidence, Explanation, How vs. Why, Literacy and the Common Core BOOK, Literary Analysis Writing, Narrative Writing, Paragraph writing, Paraphrasing, PARCC, Research Writing, Resources, Skimming, Summarizing, Test Prep, TLC Website Resources, Topic Sentences, Writing
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PARAPHRASING: Step One in the Comprehension Process
[This post originally appeared in slightly different form on MiddleWeb on August 16, 2016.] If you are trying to decide what to teach in the first few weeks of school, I have some advice: No matter what grade or subject … Continue reading
Posted in Close Reading, Comprehension, Curriculum, ELA Common Core Standards, MiddleWeb, Paraphrasing, Reading, Reading Informational Text, Reading Literature, Resources, The Literacy Cookbook BOOK, TLC Website Resources
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12 Ways to Get Students Speaking & Listening: Part 2 of a two-part “Speaking and Listening” Series
[The following post originally appeared in slightly different form on MiddleWeb on August 30, 2015, and it is based on an excerpt from The Literacy Cookbook (Jossey-Bass, 2012).] In Part I, we looked at why oral fluency is so important. … Continue reading
Posted in Comprehension, ELA Common Core Standards, Inference, Lesson-planning, MiddleWeb, Oral Fluency, Paraphrasing, Questioning, Speaking and Listening, The Literacy Cookbook BOOK
Tagged Comprehension, ELA Common Core Standards, Inference, Lesson-planning, MIddleWeb, Oral Fluency, Paraphrasing, Questioning, Speaking and Listening, The Literacy Cookbook BOOK
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Another Helpful Reading Resource: Smithsonian TweenTribune
If you are looking for more resources to support nonfiction reading, The Smithsonian TweenTribune is a FREE online educational service offered by the Smithsonian for use by K-12 grade teachers and students. TTribune consists of daily news sites for kids, … Continue reading
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Tagged Comprehension, Curriculum, ELA Common Core Standards, Inference, Lesson-planning, Main Idea, Nonfiction, Paraphrasing, PARCC, Reading, Reading Informational Text, Research, Resources, Test Prep, TLC Website Resources, Vocabulary in Context
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Professional Development Ideas to Support Literacy Instruction
This has been a particularly challenging year in our field. As teachers and school leaders continue to wrestle with how best to prepare students to meet and exceed the Common Core Standards, I would like to humbly submit some professional … Continue reading
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PARCC Prep: How to Unpack Literary Analysis and Research Writing Prompts
When it comes to test preparation, it’s a good idea to teach students to PARAPHRASE the directions. However, in the case of PARCC Literary Analysis and Research writing prompts, it will help even more to teach them to turn the … Continue reading
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PARCC Preparation: Tackling the Research Writing Task
In many schools where I work, they have opted to divide the responsibilities for mastering the PARCC writing tasks: the ELA teachers own the narrative and literary analysis tasks; the Social Studies/Science teachers own the research writing tasks. This post … Continue reading
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OUTLINING YOUR FIRST UNIT
Recently I received an Email message from a reader who wanted to know what to include in an “ideal” first unit. In my new book, Literacy and the Common Core, I offer a sample 5th-grade unit that can be adapted … Continue reading
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Tagged Argument, Comprehension, Curriculum, ELA Common Core Standards, Evidence, Grammar, Lesson-planning, Literacy and the Common Core BOOK, Main Idea, Nonfiction, Paraphrasing, Reading, Reading Informational Text, Resources, Roots, The Literacy Cookbook BOOK, TLC Website Resources, Unit-planning, Vocabulary, Writing
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