Cores 1-4: Introduce the ELT reading strategies assessments (not shown here because we use them from year to year) and talk about the importance of extending advanced students and engaging struggling students in the “action” of reading. (Show CSAP Reading Growth 05-06). Introduce and model “The Good Parts” as a …
Core 1-2: Share-On: Share your Authentic prompts with 2-3 others and select the best one or two to be included in the online resource for student generated authentic prompts. Discuss the great prompts as a class. With a partner and a laptop, sign-up for your learner blogs using my demonstration …
Cores 1-4: I was at a G/T Langauge Arts meeting for most of the day, so here are my sub plans. Core 3: Discuss any great reading that happened in the library today. Share your Authentic prompts with 2-3 others and select the best one or two to be included …
My questions: How can we use our language so that our students become more metacognitive and reflective? Others’ questions: Is peer editing actually useful for students or only for teachers? How would our teaching practice change if we were to consider all of our students as gifted? Iquiry works for …
Today, in class, I asked my students to think of the best and worst prompts that they could be asked to write about (most authentic and least authentic). I was impressed by the sophistication of their responses, but I was particularly intrigued by one response in the category of least …
Linguistics is a sub-set of Cognitive Science. Linguistics is only a study of natural langauges (not like esperanto) If Language is a mirror to the mind, unnatural language (created langauges) are like fun house mirrors. The different schools of thought in lingustics define linguistics in very different ways (parsing the …
Cores 1-4: Last week we spent quite a bit of time talking about our reading program. We have now sufficiently set up AR+. This week we are going to continue our work with AR+, but we are also going to start the weekly writing piece that you will come to …
Today’s lessons are a continuation of yesterday’s. Cores 1-4: I will be analyzing CSAP data in the main office today. I have left my substitute these plans.
Cores 1-4: Introduce the concept of Authentic vs. Inauthentic writing prompts. Talk about ways of changing inauthentic writing prompts into authentic ones. Give students initial writing assessment for the year. (These will not be posted online because they are reused from year to year.) Tell students that Mr. Wilkoff will …
Much of today’s lessons are a continuation of yesterday. Core 1: Go over the process of actually submitting a book review. Discuss-On: How do you think that the Discovery Bookshelf is going to help us to create a community of readers? Discuss-On: How do you think that creating web pages …