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Category Archives: Literacy Resources
Revamping my Summary Assignments
I am Shaking up the way I have my scholars summarize information. This MONTH’S #BLOGAMONTH TOPIC is a challenge to ‘do thin [...]
YES, you can create memes and gifs for class
You use interactive notebooks, Socratic Seminars, Kagan Strategies, online testing, flashcards, foldables, and everything including the kit [...]
Creating social media posts
The four categories of focus for a RAFT include: Role of the Writer: Who are you as the writer? A movie star? The President? A plant? [...]
creating videos
Before your students can tell their story, they need to outline it so that they can identify the key points. Provide them with a Plot Diagra [...]
Creating engaging summaries
Summarizing requires students to determine what is important in the text. Paraphrasing requires them to translate the text into their own wo [...]
Creating Interactive Images
After students read text have them create memes or gifs regarding the themes, characters, main ideas, concepts, etc. They use critical th [...]
Monster Mystery
As we begin this schoolyear, I decided that one of their first writing assignments would be to compose a descriptive paragraph. NO descripti [...]
Responding with memes
Thanks to my summer ventures into self driven PD, I had an opportunity to play with memes. I realized that I was hooked when I was saving my [...]
ThingLink
I signed up for an Educator’s account on the Thinglink.com website and I haven’t had time to play. I just created my first on [...]
Annotating and GISTing – Literacy Strategies
When working with text, we need to find Literacy strategies that require our students to do more than read and recite facts. We need to get [...]
Creating Poems from Artwork
I showed my students two pictures and asked them to create poetry based on their impression of the who, what, when, where, why and how of th [...]
Breaking down poetry into its smallest pieces
Common Core this… Common Core that…. Increase rigor… Raise the bar….. I have been bombarded by the following terms a [...]
