tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76991090120130456332024-03-27T03:22:59.885-04:00Literacy Station InspirationEmmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-77005144059207291612021-11-12T11:15:00.003-05:002021-11-12T17:02:10.188-05:00eReading Worksheets<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgySmvEE96ChKnQEiPqJO11UbE2mOsiqZlULCiPMGPpQBzclyp64FLg0A5arpEGSd-dIGtYhx32kXmz6qDjPaGSgeVIyqavenzY_pymTHXy0LCj86z57-xYWx0dcog_wX8rP1uaY3lEdIHO/s1294/Screenshot+2021-11-10+9.29.48+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="1294" height="64" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgySmvEE96ChKnQEiPqJO11UbE2mOsiqZlULCiPMGPpQBzclyp64FLg0A5arpEGSd-dIGtYhx32kXmz6qDjPaGSgeVIyqavenzY_pymTHXy0LCj86z57-xYWx0dcog_wX8rP1uaY3lEdIHO/w500-h64/Screenshot+2021-11-10+9.29.48+AM.png" width="500" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If you are a teacher of reading, English, or language arts, you have most likely stumbled across <a href="http://ereadingworksheets.com">ereadingworksheets.com</a> in your search for ready-to-use (or ready-to-adapt) materials. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This website, created and updated by education enthusiast Donald Morton, offers a plethora of standards-based resources focusing on essential comprehension skills.</span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit6w9QlmcImJGgj_QUvGtDBiNQqKwaqDI6JPKBAsB6Pr9HE5eD8Nrj91VJUOdgWeqWvEXvI3wC8o-vFJiAbExhWq-2CglcLHIA085sK0u8FsWAOMmlKL9Sb3S6kNnTY00MWdol5-Jmkcvn/s977/Screenshot+2021-11-10+9.28.52+AM.png" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="977" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit6w9QlmcImJGgj_QUvGtDBiNQqKwaqDI6JPKBAsB6Pr9HE5eD8Nrj91VJUOdgWeqWvEXvI3wC8o-vFJiAbExhWq-2CglcLHIA085sK0u8FsWAOMmlKL9Sb3S6kNnTY00MWdol5-Jmkcvn/w288-h151/Screenshot+2021-11-10+9.28.52+AM.png" width="288" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Online test item</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: times;">I<span style="font-size: medium;">n addition to hundreds of printable reading worksheets, Mr. Morton has updated his resource site to include interactive assignments! This includes online tests and digital games. Check out Genre Piranha, a literary genre review game, or Poetry Cat, a fun and uniqe approach to learning figurative language!</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">All resources on the site are searchable by grade level and skill, so finding the appropriate resource to meet your teaching needs is a breeze. Mr. Morton also includes answer key sheets, PDF and RTF options, as well as a preview of each resource. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The resources on ereadingworksheets.com can be used as is, or altered and adapted to fit your students' learning needs. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjvLD3UrqiGwi7ce9PouYeh902DTrgOk7jbDUWnW5CbSgLt9Wvka5-eMXgD5O-cF0_GQy2HTYeecwFDkpy1mhw-Fy-nwDjGseWkKHFdevIs45oofTL1xlFa9HkTch1IkuxykQz_jcFXMg/s657/Screenshot+2021-11-10+9.39.26+AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #800180;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="657" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjvLD3UrqiGwi7ce9PouYeh902DTrgOk7jbDUWnW5CbSgLt9Wvka5-eMXgD5O-cF0_GQy2HTYeecwFDkpy1mhw-Fy-nwDjGseWkKHFdevIs45oofTL1xlFa9HkTch1IkuxykQz_jcFXMg/w536-h154/Screenshot+2021-11-10+9.39.26+AM.png" width="536" /></span></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p></p>Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-35348340412519368182021-11-10T09:23:00.002-05:002021-11-12T12:01:23.814-05:00CommonLit Presents: CommonLit 360<p> </p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; 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margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">CommonLit 360 Curriculum (Edition 1.0) is a comprehensive tool for secondary educators!</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; 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</span><span style="font-style: italic;">Optional materials for </span><span style="font-style: italic;">differentiation!</span><span face="lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The CommonlLit 360 model includes digital instruction options, including:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><ul class="italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin: 1rem 0px; padding-left: 3rem;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Digitally-assignable lessons through commonlit.org</span></li></ul><ul class="italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin: 1rem 0px; padding-left: 3rem;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tools for grading and giving feedback</span></li></ul><ul class="italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin: 1rem 0px; padding-left: 3rem;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Integrations with Clever and Google Classroom</span></li></ul><ul class="italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin: 1rem 0px; padding-left: 3rem;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;">New features updating throughout the 2021-2022 school year</span></li></ul></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> CommonlLit 360 also offers a package for schools and districts to purchase the entire program that includes benchmark assessments, professional development, and school-wide data reports. 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As many of you probably know, the concept of metacognitive active reading - more specifically annotations - is abuzz in the education world. In an earlier post, we shared an activity that included using text codes an annotations to monitor thinking while analyzing poetry, spoken word, and songs.<br />
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This upcoming school year we are introducing text codes up front. Students will be introduced to the concept of annotations (we are beginning with sixth graders) with a guided lesson that delivers instruction through modeling. We will first present the Text Code Key (a poster will hang in the room and each student will receive a copy of the key to which they can refer when they use the strategy independently).</span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Next, students will be introduced to the <a href="http://vms.vale.k12.or.us/articles-week" target="_blank">Vale MS Article of the Week</a>. Because we are approaching the curriculum thematically, the classes will be assigned one AoW on a topic related to the essential question(s) each week for the duration of the unit.</span><div>
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I like to use a projector and write on the white board (an older-style projector or any projection camera device will work), so for modeling the text coding strategy I will project a digital copy. All students will have copies of the article and we will preview the text and conduct a shared reading of the article. This allows students to hear how I make connections and ask questions about the text as I read and encourages them to do the same using their personal background knowledge.</span></div>
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During Reading: Using the text codes from the key, I will draw the text code in the text and make a note to accompany that code in the margin (space is provided on the article handout). You can set a minimum of codes/annotations for students to make, but it's about quality not quantity.</span></div>
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Students volunteer to share their thinking, and this encourages an analytical conversation. The rest of the Article of the Week assignments (embedded responses) will be done independently for classwork or homework, or can be done in pairs. </span></div>
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This strategy can work with any genre of text. It incorporates several strategies, including analyzing word choice, purpose, and perspective, as well and making inferences and drawing conclusions based on explicit, implicit, and background information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome! Thanks to everyone who came out to the Germanna K-12 Literacy Conference in Spotsylvania, Virginia. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our presentation focuses on two main topics: 1) blended learning and 2) process writing (inspired by Kelly Gallagher's <i>Write Like This</i> and <i>In the Best Interest of Students</i>)<i>. </i>We used many of Gallagher's strategies to implement writing instruction that relies on student choice, modeling/mentoring texts, and writing as a recursive process. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here, we present our products, processes, trials, and successes. These activities bridge reading, writing, research, and media literacy. Each lesson involves an independent activity that is followed by peer collaboration and a culminating project in which each student cooperatively completes a group product working together - yet virtually. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>We use the Google Apps for Education as the primary platform, but also implement activities that utilize GAFE as instructional tools for student learning</span>.<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Please feel free to view, copy, and adapt any materials on this page, as well as other links on the website.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xlPQF8S1w5z2nZSo1FrIVAHa68RQ7UpAR3rw6Jwg5_c/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Real-World Writing Presentation</a><br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-30343044263766661882016-06-07T07:09:00.001-04:002016-06-07T07:09:41.724-04:00Curriculet Signing Off<span style="font-family: inherit;">I got an email recently from the CEO of Curriculet with some sad news!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My new favorite online reading repository is signing off... for good. </span><br />
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A little big of background on their company:<br />
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Well, guess I'll be revisiting Newsela and ActivelyLearn to see if they've updated to rival the efficiency and ease of Curriculet. </div>
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With expedited retakes now available to students in earlier grades, many of us middle school English/Language Arts teachers are improvising remediation strategies for those students preparing to retake.<br />
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A wonderful tool offered to Virginia teachers is the Virginia Department of Education's Practice Items, available on the VDOE website.<br />
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We have created remediation activities that incorporate the guided practice items into Google Slides.<br />
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The first passage Candace used is the 7th grade Reading nonfiction passage from the VDOE practice items. The Slides focus on close reading, summarizing, analyzing the question/prompt/item, and using the text to draw conclusions and make inferences. <div>
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To make a copy that you can edit, adapt, and implement to meet the needs of your students, open the Slide in Google, click File, then click Make a Copy.<br /><br /></div>
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-1121979372661293762016-05-11T06:48:00.004-04:002021-11-12T17:04:31.795-05:00Interactive Review: IXL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">
We are absolutely loving the IXL 30 day free trial!</span><br />
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The free trial gives teachers (or parents) and students full access to all of IXL's tools, including real-time progress and student scores by state standard or objective.</span><br />
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IXL is fun and engaging. Students complete questions that reflect TEI (technology-enhanced items), such as multiple answers, open-ended questions, or manipulating answer choices; it's not the typical passage-reading and answering multiple choice questions.<br />
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IXL is more of an instructional tool than an assessment tool. It is definitely a mode of formative assessment. Students are able to track their progress, and if they get an item incorrect they get immediate feedback explaining why their answer was wrong and why another answer choice was correct.</span><br />
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This is great to project and do guided questions with a group of students. It also serves as a wonderful computer station for a blended classroom!<br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-79098789702165552172016-05-08T11:39:00.000-04:002016-05-08T11:40:40.547-04:00Online Interactive Reading: Curriculet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've toyed with websites like Actively Learn, ReadTheory, and Newsela, but none compare to the free tools <a href="https://www.curriculet.com/">Curriculet </a>has to offer!</div>
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Curriculet is a state and <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Common Core-standards-aligned interactive website that enhances learning and student engagement. It allows teachers to access e-books, many of which are FREE! The student can read the text online, read and write annotations, answer embedded questions, and learning can be assessed with embedded quizzes! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am all about metacognitive strategies, and if you've seen my recent post about text coding and annotations, you'll see I'm constantly encouraging students to annotate with specific purposes to monitor their comprehension. Curriculet allows teachers to upload rosters - students can login with their Google accounts, which is HUGE for me since Goolge Classroom is our current platform - and student progress is automatically documented and scored! There is an option for open-ended questions as well.</span></span></div>
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It is extremely engaging. Students also have a tool to "define" words, which helps with understanding reading reference materials and word analysis like connotations and affixes. </div>
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-7829642081949302832016-05-07T13:23:00.001-04:002016-05-08T11:39:44.410-04:00Main Idea Cards<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Have you tried our Main Idea Cards?</h2>
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This strategy is a great way to improve reading comprehension with metacognition and close reading. It also helps students gain skills that align with Common Core and state standards.<br />
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<br />Students struggle differentiating between topics, main ideas, and summaries. This strategy scaffolds understanding of components of a text and instructs students on how to differentiate between a supporting detail, "trash" (a statement that contradicts the text or is not found in the text), and the main idea. It also shows students how a topic, main idea, and supporting details compose a paragraph.<br />
Click on the image to view the presentation in Google Slides. To access an editable copy, click File then Make a Copy, and Rename the presentation and Add it to your Drive. You will then have a copy that you can adapt for the needs of your students. Please share! We welcome your feedback :)<br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-48903053396544263782016-04-03T14:09:00.001-04:002016-04-17T20:58:20.670-04:00Text Coding: An Analytical Approach<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Text coding is a great tool for metacognition. Like other forms of annotating, text coding allows readers to actively track their thinking and monitor their comprehension. Instead of open-ended annotations, text-coding allows teachers to assign symbols (or codes) to specific metacognitive meanings that engage students and prompt them to "think about their thinking."<br />
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Our most recent educational endeavor has focused on strategies that encourage teachers to move poetry and verse out of April (National Poetry Month; which inconveniently coincides with standards-based test review), chop it into slivers of mini-lessons and activities, and sprinkle it throughout the curriculum map.<br />
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It is common practice that poetry is taught in isolation with a strict skill set: poetic devices and figurative language; even though said conventions are not limited to poetry and verse. In order to link conventions, forms, and structures of poetry to prose, we have to teach students to read and analyze poetry the same way we scaffold understanding and comprehension of prose. <br />
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Text coding is a great starting point. Once students annotate the text and monitor their thinking, they then have the tools to analyze, summarize, and synthesize (as it is becoming common to see poems as parts of paired texts and passages used to assess comprehension skills on standardized tests)<br />
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The text codes we chose to use are digitally-generated symbols. This lesson (which we will publish shortly) culminates with an independent activity in which students collaboratively text code and summarize a poem (chosen from a variety of genres and accompanied by video/audio) in Google Slides, then work cooperatively to generate questions using SOL stem-starters (after modeling and practice). Students are able to manipulate the text codes in Google Slides by copying and placing their chosen symbols directly into the text and using the Comment icon to share their thinking with their partner or group members.<br />
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Click on the Text Code image to view the Slide in Google. Want to edit? <b>To access an editable copy using Google, open the Slide or Doc, click on File, then click Make a Copy. Rename the document and enjoy full editing rights.</b><br />
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As always, please modify and adapt as needed for your students, and feel free to share!</div>
Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-4031011288248895922016-04-03T10:54:00.005-04:002016-04-03T10:56:41.294-04:00NY Times Found Poetry Contest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The New York Times <a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/our-seventh-annual-found-poem-student-contest/">announced</a> on March 31st that submissions for their 7th Annual Found Poetry Contest are now being accepted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not only is this contest an excellent enrichment activity for students performing above grade level, but it also includes the components of a balanced literacy lesson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The activity requires students to read, analyze, and ultimately choose a NY Times article (or two) to summarize, personalize, and manipulate into a "found poem." This is a multi-step process that requires direct instruction, modeling, analyzing mentor texts, guided reading, and independent reading (as well as re-reading). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From comprehension to application to synthesis in the areas of both reading and writing, this extension activity will get students actively engaged with an opportunity to lend their voice to a published article or text.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><u>Here are the guidelines from their website:</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 1.4375rem;">– Each poem must be 14 or fewer lines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 1.4375rem;">– You may give it your own original title if you like. The title does not count as one of the lines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">– Your sole source material must be Times pieces. You can use up to two articles. (Note: This is a change from previous years, when we allowed you to mix words from as many items as you wanted.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">– The poem itself should use no more than two of your own words. The rest of the words and phrases can be mixed up any way you like, but should all come from The Times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">– You might choose to write in a <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-terms?category=forms-and-types" style="color: #326891;">traditional poetic form</a>, or not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">– Though The Learning Network often publishes excerpts from literary and historical works on our blog via our <a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/text-to-text/" style="color: #326891;">Text to Text</a> and<a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/poetry-pairings/" style="color: #326891;">Poetry Pairing </a>features, those are off limits for this contest. The Times articles they are paired with are, of course, fair game</span></div>
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-34606995759936020282016-04-02T14:18:00.005-04:002016-04-03T10:58:45.840-04:00Literacy Station Inspiration to Present in June<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Once again, we will be sharing strategies and collaborative activities at a K-12 Literacy Conference! Come join us! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">We will be presenting a blended (partially online) writing unit that incorporates student-generated writing lessons, process writing instrution, formative assessment, and collaborative learning at the 2016 Center for Workforce and Community Education <i>Literacy Conference for K-12 Teachers</i>. The program is sponsored by the Germanna Education Consortium in conjunction with the Spotsylvania County School's regional <i>Leadership Learning Exchange Conference</i>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The literacy conference will take place on <b>Thursday, June 23 2016</b> at Chancellor Middle School in Spotsylvania, Virginia with featured and keynote speakers, local educators, and VDOE staff members presenting on current best practices, innovations in 21st century teaching, and new changes or announcements related to the Virginia SOLs.</span></span><br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-79070900398568647192015-12-05T16:59:00.003-05:002015-12-09T21:42:30.643-05:00Text Structures and Organizational Patterns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This activity follows direct instruction on each organizational patterns and text structures. Students use signal words, main ideas, and text structures to determine which text structure the author is using in each paragraph.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As a follow up to this, the students took a writing activity they had previously completed (Three Things You Should Know, adapted from a Kelly Gallagher writing activity) and made each of their paragraphs into one of the given text structures. This is an excellent revision activity, and it allows students to write more purposefully. It also helps students understand the correlation between reading skills and writing strategies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The guided practice for that activity can be found below. This was uploaded to Drive from Powerpoint, so the animations did not transfer. Please email me at<a href="mailto:emma.zayas@gmail.com" target="_blank"> emma.zayas@gmail.com</a> if you would like me to send you the Powerpoint.</span><br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-79516677825386176902015-12-05T16:30:00.003-05:002015-12-05T16:30:33.916-05:00Teaching Students to Interpret Author's Clues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The skills <i>making inferences </i>and <i>drawing conclusions</i> are umbrella terms that include an array of literacy skills. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The following presentation focuses on introducing students to an overview of how to analyze clues provided by writers that imply the author's purpose, perspective, viewpoint, subject, theme, tone, and mood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The follow-up stations that accompany this will be posted shortly. The last several slides in the presentation guide students through the analysis of print advertisements, comics, political cartoons, and public service announcements. This serves as guided practice for the upcoming stations!</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-9743021341867516152015-04-25T15:49:00.002-04:002016-05-08T12:27:46.169-04:00Word Mover Station<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As we have been implementing poetry stations over the last several weeks, I came across ReadWriteThink's Word Mover activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This may be news to you, but I hadn't ever seen it before. What a great station tool! Students can sit at the computer station (or tablet or other electronic medium), and create their own poem interactively!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The only thing I added to the station directions for this station was the poetic form. Depending on how much time you have, and if you choose to have them use one of the pre-loaded texts, including a specific type of poem (haiku being the most simple and a sonnet or multi-stanza ballad being more tedious and time consuming) is a great way to reinforce state and common-core standards. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They can save their work, share it with you (say, in Google Classroom or Drive) or print a paper copy to turn in. What fun!</span></div>
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-66706128266129816292015-04-25T13:47:00.001-04:002015-04-25T14:28:59.318-04:00Poetry Stations Page Updated<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">As promised, the Poetry Stations are now posted! Student directions, materials, and printables are now available for download on the "Poetry Stations" page. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can also access the downloadable Poetry Stations Book, as well as the Poetry Presentation with guided notes, below!</span></div>
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-50521146200115679102015-04-25T13:31:00.003-04:002015-04-25T14:21:58.533-04:00Mood and Tone: Analyzing Different Poems on the Same Topic<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After reading and viewing videos of poems on the same topic with different moods and tones (and discussing the differences as a class), students independently completed a classwork assignment in which they were given words that represented each tone and mood and asked to match the descriptor to the appropriate poem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This will lead into a word choice activity that moves from the poetry unit to a unit that encompasses diction and word choice in various types of prose. </span></div>
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-50896860936314137422015-04-13T17:23:00.002-04:002015-04-13T17:24:41.069-04:00Antonym Sort<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Go beyond basic antonym recognition with this higher-order thinking antonym sort. This can be a color-coded sort, a cut-and-paste sort, or students can fill in a blank sort with the words on a separate sheet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With this activity, students must apply their knowledge of word meanings and word relationships, as well as connotation and diction. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find this and other word study sorts and activities on the Stations: Word Study page!</span><br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-40863666480769818062015-04-11T20:15:00.003-04:002015-04-11T20:34:14.690-04:00Synonym Sort<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This synonym sort reflects the types of a analytical word study questions asked on state tests.<br />
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This goes great with the "One of These Words is NOT Like the Other Words" presentation with activities found in the earlier post. Find more word study activities to help students practice connotations, synonyms, and antonyms on the Stations: Word Study page!<br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-2871445203053262982015-04-02T21:32:00.004-04:002015-04-02T21:39:45.972-04:00Close Reading with "Thank You, Ma'am"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I may be behind the curve, but I am so excited to have been introduced to Kylene Beers's <i>Notice and Note Signposts </i>close reading strategies! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No, I don't have the students use sticky notes to post all over a text - but I so think the "look fors" are wonderfully effective for close reading.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With my seventh and eighth-graders, we did a "cold read" of Langston Hughes's <i>very </i>short story, "Thank You, Ma'am" (after viewing a presentation and taking brief notes on each signpost). We did a second - close - read of the text with the graphic organizer below. Instead of asking why the signpost (event) is important, I found it more effective to ask students to make an inference, draw a conclusion, or make a prediction about either the future events of the story, the character, or the impact on the plot, conflict, or theme. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was great! The students were engaged, knew clearly what their goals were for the close read, and were able to analyze and understand the text much more deeply than with any other fiction reading strategy I have tried.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you tried this strategy? I'm excited to hear about other texts that teachers have tried with the signposts and what kind of graphic organizers you've adapted that work for students! Please share!</span><br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-74160474121029284472015-03-31T16:07:00.001-04:002015-03-31T16:08:08.975-04:00One of these Words is Not like the Other Words...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The activities in this presentation align with the multi-step cognitive processes found in Common Core and SOL assessments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This could be broken down into sections as warm-ups for whole-group practice, divided into sections and made into stations, or made into a review game! </span></div>
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-12461746444429420232015-03-28T17:42:00.001-04:002016-04-03T14:25:00.607-04:00Poetry Book<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is a sneak peek at Candace's newest station rotation! We reunited to introduce stations that reinforce concepts of figurative language, poetic devices, and mood and tone created through word choice. </span></div>
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-24556382363594324722015-03-23T13:14:00.000-04:002015-03-23T13:15:19.000-04:00Author's Perspective: Objective and Biased<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This activity is very effective in allowing students to investigate author's perspective and the subjectivity of a topic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are tasked with writing down facts from an article, forming opinions about the content of the article, and eliminating bias and rewriting the article from an objective viewpoint. </span><br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-62894756770070110592015-03-21T12:02:00.002-04:002015-03-23T13:10:09.632-04:00Mark My Words Paraphrasing Activity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This activity allows students to practice summarizing and paraphrasing. It is imperative that students do not change the meaning of a text when rewriting or citing what someone else aphas written. This activity helps students understand how to incorporate evidence from another text without plagiarizing.<br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763610360220533759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699109012013045633.post-27982312636629355962015-03-10T15:50:00.000-04:002015-04-03T16:31:58.764-04:00Conflict Sort<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is a basic sort in which students must organize both examples and types of conflicts into the correct category. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This can be color-coded or cut and paste. </span><br />
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