Offering Choice in your Reading Response Activities | Top Teaching Tasks
Reading Response activities will likely form a major part of your reading programme, whether you are running guided reading groups, a daily 5 system,
Final projects for literature groups novel study project project-based learning lit circles
Differentiated Novel Study Choice Boards (Literature Circles)
DIFFERENTIATED NOVEL STUDY CHOICE BOARDS (LITERATURE CIRCLES) - TeachersPayTeachers.com
Assigning a One-Pager as a Culminating Project
I recently assigned a one-pager final project to my sophomores for their culminating Night project. I wanted to combine as many rigorous ELA content ideas as possible, while also designing a fun project for students that provided them with a bit of choice. To make this project rigorous, I required my students to include multiple MLA-cited quotations with a literary analysis explanation. These are skills my students have learned and practiced all year long, so it was a way for me to assess…
Five for Friday Flashback (book club, kites, fun field trip!)
I am linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching and the wonderful Amanda from Teaching Maddeness to share some highlights of my week. I apologize for being so MIA this week! I am missing all these great link ups during the week because well, life, has been getting in the way! Falling asleep on the couch every night while trying to get my schoolwork done is getting O.L.D.!! I can't wait to have a break from daily planning and grading (then, I can have more time for blogging! lol). My little girl…
Literature Circle Handouts (Not my work): (2nd-6th Grade) Jake Dury
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Literature Circles
So the other day, I was looking at bathing suits for my kids at Target online. I put a few in my virtual cart, but then decided on buying from Lands End instead. Well, since that day, these bathing suits have been STALKING me via the web! I login to my email, and WHOA!! there they are in the side bar! Go to check Facebook, and BAM!! there they are in my news feed! Googling something for the 700th time that day, and BOOM!! those suits are staring right at me from the left side of the screen…
Digital Reader's Notebook for Any Novel GOOGLE EDITION | Distance Learning
A paperless, digital response to reading resource that can be used over and over again? A reader's notebook that can be used with ANY novel? A way to use Google Classroom to help manage students' responses to reading. Yes, please!My guess is that if you are previewing this product, you have an in...
BESPOKE ELA (Meredith) on Instagram: “So many project options! I love giving students lots of choices to showcase their learning. Check out this graphic for lots of ideas on…”
981 Likes, 77 Comments - BESPOKE ELA (Meredith) (@bespokeelaclassroom) on Instagram: “So many project options! I love giving students lots of choices to showcase their learning. Check…”
It Only Takes One Page- Assessing English Students with a One Pager -
How do you assess? Do you go by how much time it takes to grade? Do you make your students write an essay because you need a writing sample for data? Do you give them a project you can glance at, use a rubric, and assign a grade? Full Disclosure Full disclosure- in my 19… Continue reading It Only Takes One Page- Assessing English Students with a One Pager
An Amazon Listing Cumulative Novel Project! - Teaching with a Mountain View
It's no secret that I love a good cumulative novel project as an assessment. I usually spend the entire novel brainstorming how we can sum it up! Sometimes the projects are a miss (you don't get to read about those!) but sometimes they are great successes. Like the character project we completed for Rules or ... Read more
An Update to the Upgraded KWL for the 21st Century
In 2011, I wrote a blog post, titled Upgrade your KWL Chart to the 21st Century. It described how I learned about a new version of the traditional KWL (What do I Know, What do I Want to know and wh…
Reading Response Non Fiction Tic Tac Toe Menu Choice Board
Reading Response Non Fiction Tic Tac Toe Menu Choice Board by Cameron Brazelton
Assigning a One-Pager as a Culminating Project
I recently assigned a one-pager final project to my sophomores for their culminating Night project. I wanted to combine as many rigorous ELA content ideas as possible, while also designing a fun project for students that provided them with a bit of choice. To make this project rigorous, I required my students to include multiple MLA-cited quotations with a literary analysis explanation. These are skills my students have learned and practiced all year long, so it was a way for me to assess…
Meaningful Small Group Reading Instruction
HIGH INTEREST TEXT I try my best to choose books that my kiddos will LOVE to read. Scholastic has been my best friend. BONUS POINTS!? DOLLAR BOOKS!? SIX PLEASE! With that said, I’m not a magician or a millionaire. I do my best and use the resources that are available to me. I have found that if I show my kids that I’m excited, they quickly join the club! It is also important to note that it is also equally important that your students have experiences reading boring stuff. Lets face it…
A Simple Trick for Success with One-Pagers | Cult of Pedagogy
These visual tools allow students to synthesize learning, but some kids don't think they're talented enough to make them. A bit of creative constraint helps.