This writing activity integrates mathematical graphing with writing and can be used to generate a number of different kinds of writing activities, but lends itself well to biographical and narrative writing. Students interview other students, choose significant life events, rate…
Author: Traci Gardner
My Writing: The Book Manuscript!
A manuscript has been submitted. Deadline met. And now, I’m allowed to sleep.
Inbox: Focus on Native American Heritage
National American Indian Heritage Month is recognized each November as a time to learn more about the history and heritage of Native American peoples. These resources provide strategies to explore Native American literature and heritage in your own classroom.
Inbox: Halloween and DÃa de los Muertos
With Halloween and DÃa de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in the next week, these resources provide seasonal activities that focus on language arts, literature, and writing.
Terry Pratchett on Thinking Outside the Box
SmartQuote from Yesterday’s ASCD SmartBrief: “I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.” —Terry Pratchett, author
Inbox: Using Literacy Coaching to Improve Your School
NCTE and the International Reading Association have created a Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse to build a professional learning community of literacy coaches and to provide the education community with information on literacy coaching.
ReadWriteThink: Thinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney’s “Blackberry Picking”
This ReadWriteThink lesson eases students’ fear of interpreting complex poetry by teaching them an inductive strategy with which they determine patterns of imagery, diction, and figurative language in order to unlock meaning. Although the lesson uses Seamus Heaney’s “Blackberry-Picking,” this…
Inbox: Get Active at Your School
Next week is Teen Read Week! This year’s theme, “Get Active!” encourages teens to use the resources at their library to lead an active life. Students at any grade level can get active with these resources.
My Writing: Chapter 4 . . . Audience? Purpose? What?
I’ve been puzzling on this overnight. Rereading. Highlighting the freewrite from yesterday. I just continues to feel as if there’s something wrong. I do think that my problem is the rhetorical situation of a rhetorical situation, and maybe the metacognitive…
My Writing: Off-Focus
Good grief. I’m an idiot. Okay, I know what’s wrong with the old text. I was trying to write down the process of creating lesson plans and calling it something else. Most of the text that I have has to…