#ELAchat Archive
All things Writing, Reading, and Language Arts.
Tuesday January 5, 2016
8:00 PM EST
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Welcome to ! will be moderating- let's share our best resources! Please introduce yourself. https://t.co/B5LLCglSOU
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Kristin--east central IL. 2nd sem started today--Eng 3, honors Eng 3, and dual credit lit.
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I am Dina from NJ. I am a Math Specialist and Instructional Coach
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I am Brian Sztabnik, an English teacher from NY. I blog for Edutopia and also edited The Best Lesson Series: Literature.
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Good evening from MN. I'm Sandy Otto, 6th grade ELA. Excited to learn lots and hopefully share an idea that might inspire another.
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Ambre Lee from rainy(!) CA-I teach 9th and 10th ELA
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hey gerard dawson here, HS English and Journalism teacher. Contributor to Best Lesson Series
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I'm a 6th grade Language Arts teacher from Olathe, KS.
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Hey all, Evin from Seattle. 9th Grade LA/SS.
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Hi, I'm Sean, middle school counselor, from FL
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We have seven great questions lined up that focus on best practices.
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thanks for hosting tonight!
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Jonathan Bernal 8th grade ELA from CA
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I'm Josh Stock and teach 6th grade Language Arts in Olathe, KS.
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Olathe, KS is a place I know well.
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Amie Trahan from Louisiana, haven't chatted in quite some time
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hello! I'm Bernice from Illinois. I'm a middle school reading specialist.
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Hi y'all, Shanna from Texas, 11th grade English
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We're glad you chose to join tonight - welcome!
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Thanks for joining us tonight. Tonight we are going to share best practices across a variety of genres.
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I AM NOT DOING BUT AAAAAAHHH!!! AMIE IS ON THE TWITTER
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Great to see so many -ers tonight!
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Megan, Instructional Coach from joining in for a little bit tonight.
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Q1. is coming in one minute....
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I'm Cheryl. 6th grade ELA teacher from MI. Will stick around until I fall asleep. This back to school thing is a killer. ;)
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Ty . Looking forward to the chat & learning from other
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Hi I am Terry, 2nd gr T in Fl
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A1 After school server failed this fall, everything I have is on a personal external drive in way too many folder. Looks organized.
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excited to learn some new lesson ideas!
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A1: I use Evernote as my "junk drawer." Lessons I really want to use and keep, I store on Google Drive...
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A1: Pre-Assessment! Finding out where students strengths lie, where confusion arises, areas to amp up is key. That's the start.
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A1: Google Drive in organized folders. Easy to find, print, and share
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A1: Google Docs. Easy to share with other Ts so they can make a copy and change/adjust lesson for their own students.
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A1: I take pics of images, send myself emails, favorite tweets, jot notes...basically it looks like the inside of my brain!
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A1. I look for interesting things that people are doing in other fields and find creative ways to incorporate it in my classroom.
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I got into Evernote for a little bit but then I stopped using it. I should revisit it.
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A1: I am sure this is something I need to improve on. I do now use Google some. I collect a lot into folders.
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I'm getting smarter about Evernote - and Google Drive is my "junk drawer"
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I hear you! I'm exhausted already by Tuesday for so many reasons. Nice to see you here tonight.
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A1 i keep yearly folders for classes and units on Google Drive, then take out the best stuff to reuse
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A1 I bookmark everything. I also have a folder called My Creations. I share through a monthly newsletter
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A1 favorite ideas sit on my desk top & tip of my tongue when sharing ideas; readily adapting to situations
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A1: I have a mix of computer files and good old fashioned binders of files. Sometimes I need to see paper.
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Hah! Opposite! I love the labels that Evernote provides, . Can search that way...
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A1: Plans are everywhere: Google Drive, Dropbox, Folders, Work comp files, home files-it's an ever-evolving mess
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Yes! I email myself a lot. Links, PDFs, etc until I'm able to build on the resources.
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A1 To share with others, I usually talk about it w/colleagues or present at local conferences, then post links on my blog.
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A1 Read good prof. development books. Get inspired by current events. Make lists everywhere. Pinterest. Other bloggers.
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I'm with you on Evernote as junk drawer. I go wild with the web clipper
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I try to incorporate relevant topics and ideas that I think kids will gravitate to. It's constantly changing.
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Gotta love that Web Clipper!!
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I don't know where I'd be without google drive!
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Loving your pic with . One of my for sure!
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A1: I'm terrible at curating. I have spirals full of notes all over my classroom.
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A1: I started using Fetchnotes this year. Super easy. I'm loving it.
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A1 part 2: My Twitter favorites are another place to "store" ideas. Easy to email to others and share as well.
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Yes! Love the copy feature so you can make changes.
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I am a pen to paper kind of guy. Many of my ideas are sketched out or written down in an idea journal.
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And I'm Brynn Allison, 7 yrs teaching HS English & reading interventions. Blog https://t.co/cyx1WlwPgI Jumping btwn &
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A1 ideas & lessons need to be flexible and utilize to make them relevant to the Ss needs
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Also, I apologize to for bogarting 's focus with wood-er and shouts.
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Never heard of that one! Fetchnotes... I'll be looking it up...
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same for me. I even have several flash drives around.
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I share whatever I have with whomever wants it. I present through BER--so lucky to get to share lessons with participants.
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A1: I'm totally a collector from textbooks, Google Drive, chats like this, and colleagues who taught that thing already.
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A1: I share a lot of my ideas (and get some too) through a FB group for ELA teachers and my blogs.
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A1: Looks like I need to jump on Evernote and check it out.
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I am so similar in so many ways! Inspiration is all around us, often in the most unlikely places.
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I do that too! I have 50+ drafts in my draft folder!
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I keep a blog of ideas to share! I do a lot of brainstorming, googling, and reading until I'm happy with a lesson.
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Me too, Brian. I have a new, ugly spiral each year. I think: Oh that's in Justin Bieber or Optimus Prime
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I'm all about the yearly binder. I have binders from my first year of teaching 7 years ago!
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I have recently learned to use when did present at our school. It is AMAZING!! I'm sold! Also
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I love recycling the paper in old binders and then trying to give the binders away!
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I've been a Dropbox fan from way back, Amie!
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A1 I also have used 's idea of a master binder for storage and reflection
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A1 Although tech savvy; not all Ts are. Need to remember to verbally converse as well as through tech to colleagues
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There's a learning curve to Evernote, but so many swear by it.
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newest unit: Liberty and Justice for All? Reading Farewell to Manzanar, Response to EO 9066, primary sources, photos...love this
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I feel so guilty putting everything away. I'm like, "But what if I teach ---- again?!"
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I use that too. Helps me see how I organized/paced the class each year.
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For sure! I finally got rid of those preschool camp plans for my deaf students from 1995, though...
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A2: Not my strongest area, but have fun with blackout and spine poetry. I enjoy teaching fig language.
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A2: I don't have a great poetry lesson, but students love when I bring in a huge branch, AKA "poet tree" in April! We hang poems.
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A2. My best lesson is "Think Like a Poet." I wrote about it in The Best Lesson Series. Ss see a poem from the poet's perspective.
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All of my best poetry lessons are linked to music. Love seeing Ss get excited when they hear that songs are poetry put to music.
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Me, too! Hardest part is getting it in the vehicle!! ;O
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I teach a creative writing class in the spring and love doing blackout poems. is a good resource.
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A2 Best poetry I stole from online; no idea from whom. Roethke's My Papa's Waltz w/2dif ?s--1 positive, 1neg interpretation.
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I like using TPCASTT as a way to analyze and create a conversation. I teach all boys ...They often dislike poetry!
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I love what they look like all together on the long bulletin board in the hall.
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I hear America Singing, one of my former students observed that Whitman would write today I Hear America Crying...amazing
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I wish I could do a semester course on poetry. There is so much meaning packed into such a small space.
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Evernote is great for tracking student writing & building your own bank of student samples.
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I love this idea!!! How do you set it up?
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Need to freshen up my toolbox for teaching Lit Essay to my struggling students, anyone got any gems to share?
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A2: For awhile I was doing "Music Mondays" in which we paired poems with music. They enjoyed Poe and Of Monsters and Men synthesis.
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have you tried TPCASTTing movie trailers? It's a great hook.
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A2 I love making connections between hip hop and classic poetry like does
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A2 using Martin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..." to teach bullying and racism
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A2: I love taking the titles off of poems and having students practice inferencing to figure out the title.
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Participate in ...I'm composing a list of participants so we can spin the wheel & give away a book tonight! https://t.co/bEPB5T48sU
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I use Every Ghetto, Every City (Lauryn Hill) & Juicy (Notorious B.I.G.) w/ Where I'm From (Lyon) for Ss to write about themselves.
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A2 https://t.co/ap3XY9ro3J to teach W.H. Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts then compare w/William Carlos William & Icarus art
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I started the year with that! Great poem
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We think alike. I use 70s/80s lyrics-call it Flashback Friday. We read,interpret,look for lit elements & watch video.
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We had an author come and talk to us about that one - Michael Smith!
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A2: my favorite poetry lesson is also in the book. I love creating a poetry bracket similar to March Madness only in April
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We do Where I'm From poems too. They are all displayed in our hallway right now. LOVE!
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A3: My Ss do a poetry anthology each semester collecting & analyzing a variety of poems on a subject; I love to see their choices
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A2) I use Every Ghetto, Every City (Lauryn Hill) & Juicy (Notorious B.I.G.) w/ Where I'm From (Lyon) for Ss to start w/ themselves.
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I used that Lauryn Hill song with Stevie Wonder’s Living for the City!
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A2-best poetry lessons aren't lessons; I'll start class and read a poem like "Out,Out" by RF & simply ask for Ss reactions/comments
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Suzanne in Arkansas I curate using and It is really easy to share using these two tools.
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ekphrastic poetry unit was awesome as well
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I finally recycled 95% of my old lessons in folders in my garage. If used again I would change it anyways.
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A2 best poetry lesson: a scaffolded imitation of "ode to my socks" by Neruda. Pick a random object out of a box and write your ode
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I used to only use older music, but now I need to weave in some modern music.
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A2: I like to have my Ss create Found poems from short stories. Best were from Sound of Thunder, Harrison Bergeron, The Landlady
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A2 I haven't used this list yet, but I retweeted yesterday. A pairing of poetry and artwork. Great idea! https://t.co/fbg9BbNejj
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A2: We write "villain"elles when we study villanelles. Wickedly fun!
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I did brackets for a long time and "Maybe Dats Your Problem Too" always won. :)
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you can do that with any genre!
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A2 hmm poetry and math...I'm intrigued to find some
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Yes! One year we did the same. I wrote an "ode to a button."
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A2: Slam Poetry is also a hit. So many great ones on Youtube
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Great minds. We do them in December before Grandparents' Visiting Day. Often see tears.
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A2: I do a cross-curricular discussion with science about density and explain that poems are much more dense than novels
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With many close reading passages, I ask student to identify L.I.T.:
L= literal
I= Inferential
T= thematic or tone
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Ss are sick of the term “close reading” so I try not to use it. I love when they have their own aha moments and make connections.
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A3 Using "Before He Cheats" lyrics to train kids to pay attention to what's there and what's not
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I never teach poems I don't like. I told Ss today, "I didn't become an LA teacher b/c I love books. I did it b/c I love poetry."
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A2: Spoken word poetry is always a big hit.
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When I taught Anne Frank, we did found poems with Holocaust survivor stories. Powerful!
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my spring break project! I have 4th grade stuff from 7 years ago!
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A3 just used this with 2nd graders to look for clue words,then identify similarities,then differences in a compare/contrast lesson
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I tell my students, "let's put this under the microscope and see what others can't."
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What about "Arithmetic" by Carl Sandburg? One of my favorites to recite.
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A3: might sound odd, but having students close read standards & rubrics is effective. Helps understand goals, ask clarifying ?s.
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I loved a poetry activity I did with NWP. We used paint named from Home Depot to create poems! They were amazing!
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I have a box of old books for ripping out pages and making found/blackout poems. Treasonous for ELA teachers, but fun
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A3 Close reading of R&J prologue. Red for love words, black for hate words, circle pair words. Then paraphrase 2 lines at a time
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A3 I am finding that I have to do a lot of modeling for close reading, but need it to be student-directed.
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Yep, it's how Modern Monday started.Often harder to find current appropriate lyrics (although 70s/80s are tricky,too)
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Great idea! What doe the students notice in each?
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My best poetry lesson: "The Poetry Jar" from poetry chap in Genre https://t.co/iQCdfuvZJ7 kids reactions. https://t.co/KyNEKcm9EH
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A2. My best lesson is "Think Like a Poet." I wrote about it in The Best Lesson Series. Ss see a poem from the poet's perspective.
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A3: close reading poetry, excerpts from literature and even images or video clips can help delve into higher-level thinking!
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Ha! I wish I had more time to do something like that each week. I see Ss 4 days in a 6 day cycle. 3-4 times a week.
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A3: For close reading, I am all about by and . Best resource ever!
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A2 We wrote poems in social studies. Ss picked someone they were familiar with in US history. Ss had to guess who it was about.
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Smart by Shel Silverstein for younger students.
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I agree! Getting into the nonfiction one now!
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That is a great text, Cheryl! Very popular in my dept
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Articles about how I use it comprise half of my blog. :)
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Colored annotations are such powerful tools to separate ideas so that students can see how the part form a whole.
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Yes! I use lots of it,esp "If I Had a Daughter" from Sarah Kay,to teach/model PVLEGS. Helps Ss w/speaking.
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This is my 3rd year using it. Still blown away by the level of analysis kids show.
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Great resource! I've been using fiction ones for a while but need more for Jrs & Srs.
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Me too! So incredibly useful
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Anoher great close reading guru talks about reading with lenses.
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And I've got all of those posts saved in my Evernote!
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Great for reading any type of literature! https://t.co/bvFbQqeFCv
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A3: For close reading, I am all about by and . Best resource ever!
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I model a lot early on but gradually release the responsibility to my students. By the end, they are autonomous.
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A3: Ss enjoyed close reading of Pixar shorts using Notice and Note
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And the kids love it too. Former students come back for "those awesome bookmarks."
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Please do! Follow for questions. :D
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sandyrotto When I taught Anne Frank, we did found poems with Holocaust survivor stories. Powerful! https://t.co/mPMYxx2Ny2
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What a great idea! Love it!
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That is an excellent tool. I would be lost without Pixar shorts!
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And students love to use crayons regardless of age :)
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A3 going from prose to poetry an idea from is a fav. Break a passage into lines, then justify your choices
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A3 used Truss' book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Matter; then using Ss Instagrams, tweets & FB as examples
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A3) Close reading film has always been a hit, especially when students come back and they say, "I know why they did that!"
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7th graders love my basket of crayons. Never gets old. :)
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I'm so confused!! Which question did you want me to elaborate on...I haven't chatted in so long--I'm so rusty!
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short video clips and pictures work great for evidence finding!
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A3 It's frustrating bc I expect my Jrs and Srs to be able to read closely & annotate but find I still need to model a lot.
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You rock, Joy. Love that I know you.
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A3: I've found visuals a great place to start with close reading skills!
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I love the idea of having Ss write math valentines. showed me a awesome student example.
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Oh, come on! 😄Those 90s boy band, Pony Pals, etc books are all fair game. Great for creating blackout poems.
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Yes! All fantastic and filled with Lit elements
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A3: images from Crime and Puzzlement work wonders... Like mini CSI
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I love the idea of having Ss write math valentines. showed me an awesome student example
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Pixar shorts are awesome for teaching sooo many things
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Time has limited me this yr, moving to MS. Used to have 120 ELA min-now have about 50.We make time for what we value.
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I love using pictures books whenever possible lately. Great “tools” to make any literacy lesson fun for all ages!
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I use this a lot in my classes because Ss can understand director choice then we can talk about author choice
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Oooh - has blogged about Pixar shorts, as well.
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A4: Infographics are a cool way to incorporate visual literacy with research
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Yes! I like to do close readings of advertisements
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Very true. I may only see kids 3 or 4 hours each week, but we read independently EVERY DAY.
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Ha. Just shared that link at the same time as you wrote this. :)
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I like to think we are repurposing them to give them a second life.
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A4 Speaking of shorts, Oscar short films are great for id'ing lit elements that transfer to text. That's my lesson in the book
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A4: Advertisements and commercials for rhetoric.
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I used to play "Shake-scene it" with my students, showing clips of a ply from the Bard and asking Scene-it style questions.
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A3: The Ss annotate, then reflect on their notes (which strategies did they use? Why? Which didn't they use?)
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I am all about the picture books in middle school!
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Exactly. I am at 45 minutes. Must prioritize.
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A4: Using more infographics this year
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need to run. Thanks everyone!
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Always a hit with my juniors and seniors, Sarah! They never get tired of those books they loved first
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I tell them 'NOTHING is an accident in writing.' Think about how much work YOU put into a draft. So yeah...
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Thanks for joining us and sharing your chapter with us, Gerard!
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Pixar shorts especially silent ones like "The Paperman" to teach plot and/or signposts. One of my favorite lessons
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I liked having students mindmap Julius Caesar on white butcher paper... in only red paint. (Get it?) https://t.co/41ruj5TdV8
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A4: I use art a lot and film and am just starting to have my Ss create infographs for character analysis https://t.co/hmK8kVWsXW
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Heading out early. Thanks everyone! Happy New Year!
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Me too. First 10 mins of every class, 5 days a week is free, choice reading.
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I tell my students it never rains on accident in the movies. It costs too much to produce it.
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TED talks to help students prepare for #20%project. Bill Gates, Amy Cuddy, Sir Ken Robinson, Maya Penn
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A4 Crime scene images from George Hillcocks Teaching Argument Writing. Students get so into them.
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Gotta love those for / ! Also for our homerooms in 7th grade! :D
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Yes! Piktochart is great for having students make their own infographics.
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Q5 is coming in two minutes... There are so many great ideas being shared!
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I do the first 15 minutes, since I don’t see them every day.
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A4: Analyzing political cartoons about current events
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The people in always bring tons of great ideas!
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What I love about inforgraphics is the it teaches students about narrative. The best ones tell a story.
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As a 1:1 school, I find myself integrating more and more creation of video, podcasts, and infographics to bring texts to life.
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no - we have been using easel.ly but would like to try other platforms. Do you like piktochart?
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This chat makes me miss all the great experiences I love giving my Ss, but haven't done this yr. I want to do them all again...now!
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A3-I start close reading w/movie clips.1/2 of Ss watch clip & take notes/other 1/2 faces away & only hears soundtrack/compare notes
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What are some of your fav podcasts, Evin?
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Yes! Infogr.am is great for creation too.
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Love that you do it with 11th and 12th graders! I’m the last one to do it in my district, and I teach 9th grade.
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"The Sneetches" is one of the best & clearest texts about how we make people "other"
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My Ss are studying religions w/ religion-themed lit circles next, so they're creating podcasts "How ---- Works"
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Some of my fav writing lessons incorporate mentor texts, or me writing in front of my Ss. They love seeing me write on the spot.
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We just finished voting for Mock Caldecott.Tallying votes now. Great experience w/picture books in MS.
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. I bet students love that! I would have been stoked to rip school books! LOL
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A5: I have a fun argumentative lesson where they write a nonsense complaint letter to company like Letters from a Nut.
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A4 visual Lit use of art (Manet, Monet, etc)Ss interpret;popup books(Sabuda)provide interaction;have Ss create&interpret each other
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I like reading "The Lorax" to look for Logos and Pathos in argumentative writing...,
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I do 4 Steps to Successful Writing (P.O.E.T.) after looking at 10 years of sample AP essays that scored high on the exam.
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A5 Using Ss own Q's that they write anonymously on index cards. I shuffle & share them as writing prompts
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A5: Watching House Hunters to evaluate/judge; reading Amazon reviews as mentor texts, then order product & write a real review.
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Vice-versa. Let's teach together. (with the rest of )
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A5 This overlaps w/poetry. Using coming of age poems as mentor texts at start of yr. Learn about students & teach techniques
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A5 Best wrtg is weekly paragraph when Ss connect theme of rdg to a current event. Ss don't like the amount of work but they learn
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"How Ramadan Works", "How Jesus Christ Works", "How a Hajj Works", "How Suffering Works", etc.
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All good argument writers understand:
P=Purpose
O=organization
E=evidence
T=Thesis
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A5: Using Chopped tv show as a way to discuss the writing process via
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So cool, Sandy! What was one of the top titles in your class
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. They really are. I love using them. And they love reading them.
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Awesome Idea. Saw was doing a similar lesson with her students and I love it!
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They draw 4 cards: object, malfunction, ailment it caused, and restitution. Must tie all together in a story. Hysterical!
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Huh? Is there a link for this (what sounds like it could be stellar) lesson? ;D
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A3 short memoir, 20% presentation scripts, argument, Secret Knowledge of Grown Ups, Newspaper article for Japanese Intern
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A5: using "Girl" as a mentor text for Ss to imitate so Ss can have an understanding of their voice and style
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I like to use mnemonics for organization too! Intro: HAT=Hook, Answer, Thesis (middle school) https://t.co/RA5BoVkIKQ
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All good argument writers understand:
P=Purpose
O=organization
E=evidence
T=Thesis
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Tell me more! I'm assuming there is a graphic organizer? What can the lowerclassmen Ts do to help Ss prepare?
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A5 Ss rewrite a song lyrics focusing on subject being taught;Ss buyin bc they chose the song but show knowledge through application
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I LOVE Sabuda's popups. Ok, I just love all popups. This is a cool idea, Sean
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A5: Service learning projects with authentic audience and student driven ideas
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So far, it looks like Wolfie the Bunny, If You Plant a Seed and Finding Winnie are tops. I loved Float.
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sandyrotto When I taught Anne Frank, we did found poems with Holocaust survivor stories. Powerful! … https://t.co/mPMYxx2Ny2
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I loved using Peter Brown’s Children Make Terrible Pets for voice! My Ss were laughing like kids again.
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Love this - good, clear intro to the appeals
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Wolfie! One of my daughter’s favorite! She loves Dot. :)
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A5: Chipotle Cultivating Thoughts - they came up with some great stuff
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I loved it when they had that contest - the kids loved thinking they could get their writing on the Chipotle bag!
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My daughter would beg to be in your class if she could use HH's as a text!
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I absolutely love that book! That Ted L. Nancy (Jerry Seinfeld). So funny!
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A3 Use "The Pie" by Gary Soto as mentor text for short memoir and teaching participles and absolutes--super rich piece
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So wonderful - I'm going to be keeping these ideas in :)
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A5) I don't know how I did w/o it for so long, but writing ALONGSIDE Ss & Ss watching you use a mentor text (as a mentor yourself)!
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I apologize for leaving a few minutes early. I need to read to my son, Young Houdini by Sumon Nicholson
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LOVE when my Ss run their own discussions about a whole-class book. I just facilitate and ask for more explanation, when needed.
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It was fun. We brought in lunch bags and they designed the whole thing
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A6: Multiple Intelligences Group Projects with Short Stories
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One of my favorite things too. I watch in awe!
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I’ve had a few daring souls write in front of the class! Went over quite well!
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Wolfie the Bunny has my vote!
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A6. I do a "silent lesson" in which I give the Ss a poem, put a question on the board, and let them wrestle with it. I say nothing.
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Don't you love that? Those are the days that are just joyous
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A6 I started using Literary 3x3 last spring. That was the best for student led. Adding Thunderdome this spring.
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a6: Service Learning projects and Genius Hour
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A6. Part II. They take ownership of the discussion, analysis, and conclusion. It is interesting to sit back and see them operate.
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Thanks for sharing that, Josh
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A6) A student said, "Hey Shinn, we should do our Class Expectations using only emojis." Boom. Magic.
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A6 Have students design a museum around a topic, i.e. Civil Rights. Do research to explain exhibits, choose a real location, etc.
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heading out...I really need to do this more often!! You guys are amazing!! Keep changing the world!
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Oh, I would love to do that. Great idea. I know a few who would jump at that chance. Thx.
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Have you read Whole Novels for the Whole Class?
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A6: Fishbowl discussions with outside engaged in Today's Meet conversations while listening to inside
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It would have to be my Ss making them - I'm hopeless at paper engineering. Thanks for the link!
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Yep! That’s where I got the idea from. Great ideas throughout!
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A6: We had a fishbowl discussion today - kids generated the questions, voted, then participated. Great stuff.
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A6: we do a lot of socratic circles. The kids love to talk.
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A6: Socratic seminars and Pop-up debates - My ss usually don't need me to ask ?s or keep them on task (usually is the key word)
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Co-creating with students is how I "do school" They amaze me
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As someone who tries to blend old school ELA & new school ELA, I need this book.
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And the author joined us!
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A5: about to start 6 word memoirs tomorrow!
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YES! It’s amazing! I’ve used it a few years now, and works so well!
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I use these the first day to introduce ourselves - and sometimes as book reviews
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Definitely a 2nd half of the year thing, but Ss love it! I love hearing their thinking! Sometimes it’s a group effort!
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Our class did 6 word memoirs this year and we presented them via a class video. Students loved that part!
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A6: Socratic circles, or as we say "fishbowls" students feel empowered and excited to collaborate
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Awesome idea! https://t.co/0p3gQKKwpe
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A6. I do a "silent lesson" in which I give the Ss a poem, put a question on the board, and let them wrestle with it. I say nothing.
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Be sure to check out The Best Lesson Series: Literature. 15 remarkable ELA Ts share their best lesson. https://t.co/QLXmc6ggrb
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's Question Formulation Technique is so great for creating student-centered questioning. So much bang for no buck!
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A7 My goals are to get back to a routine--a handful of strategies used repeatedly rather than reinventing the wheel ea time.
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Yes! My goal is to have them create a digital copy and we'll pick some music to put in the background
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A7 use more flipping with and continue daily reflections
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A7: Incorporate even more feedback and formative assessment than I do now.
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A6: "Press Conferences"=groups of 4 share analysis of short text w/ class, asks discussion questions, fields questions from class.
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Mine is similar. Give students individual choice and individual feedback.
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Have students write more, and grade less. Give more feedback.
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A7: Student voice in guiding what we do and how we do things.
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A7 I teach small group rdg interventions so plan lessons that build Ss' skills in measurable ways. Want Ss to see their growth
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A7) I KNOW my lessons are standards-based, but I don't really KNOW my lessons are standards-based. I need to be more precise.
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A7 I just began using an Ignite style presentation assignment for students. Want to perfect that.
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we need your help!We are looking for chat topics & hosts for our Tues. chats! Contact me or to keep collaboration going
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That's it in a nutshell: Student voice and choice as a rule
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A7: Have more fun! It's easy when the assessment gauntlet rolls around to lose sight of the fun of LA.
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A7: Solidify my units with Backward Design model - I think my classroom time could be tightened up a bit if I did this
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Kindred spirits! I’ve found that feedback is more helpful than any grade.
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Swap resources with . He is doing interesting things with ignite talks.
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. we used fishbowl discussion today to discuss classroom culture & our tensions btw comfort & empathy
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That's so true, Josh - and English teachers are the original fun meisters
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Put student friendly standards on the board, your plans, or on Ss handouts. Let all know they are :)
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Thus would make all sorts of happy https://t.co/NukNHvNpwD
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A6) A student said, "Hey Shinn, we should do our Class Expectations using only emojis." Boom. Magic.
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sandyrotto When I taught Anne Frank, we did found poems with Holocaust survivor stories. Powerful! … … https://t.co/mPMYxx2Ny2
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Feedback is how we all get better. This is my goal too
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Can’t say enough! LOVE IT! Best way to get a good handle on what Ss are comprehending.
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Ours were on improving school culture - less stress and more engagement. Wonderful ideas.
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I think might be due for another chat soon :)
