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Category Archives: My Class
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 [...]
Organizational Tip #20DayBC
Anyone who knows me that Being Organized is something that I am NOT. I TRY, but I FAIL, often. Because I know myself and my weaknesses, I am [...]
Favorite book to teach
I have committed to blogging more thanks to Kelly Hines. She has created a list of blogging topics that I hope to follow. Below is the cha [...]
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 [...]
Using exit tickets to check comprehension
Exit Tickets can be used to gauge whether or not students have processed new concepts. It is a quick way to have them reflect on information [...]
More about Smore posters
Here is a tool to add to your PUBLISH and SHARE tech tools toolbox. Smore.com allows you to create quality posters, newsletters an [...]
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 [...]
Look for flags when reading closely.
When you READ CLOSELY…. Keep in mind that the author does Everything for a reason. Below are some flags that authors use to indicate somet [...]
Class Participation
This year is almost over and I am thinking about next year. I am working out a different system for issuing class participation points. I [...]
Daily slides to ‘show’ daily agenda
When the students walk in and see this slide, they know that for today’s class they will need to get out their workbooks, paper and th [...]
Smore posters
Smore online posters are great tools to use to publish and showcase work/information. I have not used them in class yet, but I intend to hav [...]
More about Weebly.com
Lately I have been delivering presentations about creating ePortfolios using Weebly.com. My latest presentation was given for Live.Classroom [...]
