This Idea generation methods site mentioned on 43 Folders looks like a great potential resource for a prewriting lesson plan.
Author: Traci Gardner
Building Teacher Support
The Ideas section from this week’s Inbox focuses on Building Teacher Support. A recent newspaper article from The Pantagraph discusses the challenges that new teachers face during the school year. Returning teachers also face many demands in the classroom. This…
Audio Listening Practices: Exploring Personal Experiences with Audio Texts
Just finished writing and proofreading a new 9-12 lesson plan that asks students to explore the ways that audio texts play a role in their lives. Students keep a daily diary that records how and when they listen to audio…
Establishing a Student-Centered Classroom
The Ideas section of this week’s Inbox discusses ways to establish classroom ownership from the start. Tags: English language arts | K12 instruction | NCTE Inbox
#506 – Guess the artefact
My actions and thought process are now the subject of a contest. Go ahead. Try to guess what I’ll choose :)
Successful Strategies for Writer’s Notebooks and Journals
Another Tuesday, another Inbox. The Ideas section for this week’s Inbox focuses on the journals and notebooks that are such an important part of a writing class. The topic seemed like a useful back-to-school issue to consider. The ways that…
August 15 Content Report
We turn in content reports for ReadWriteThink on the 1st and the 15th of each month, so today I did the last-minute work to get the report turned in. The report lists the lesson plans that were published since the…
7 Days So Far…
So as of about 10:30 this morning, I have gone a week without my favorite beverage—diet brown soda. I think the headaches may be mostly over. I’m not having the constant horror that it was anyway. I’m really tired of…
Two new lessons posted
Edited and published two new ReadWriteThink lessons, both for 3-5 classes. Graphing Plot and Character in a Novel is a departure from the typical plot diagram. Students diagram plot events on a spectrum from positive to negative (as they define…