tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47712399966876050902024-03-13T00:27:34.026-07:00learning twice"To teach is to learn twice."
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Having a copy of a book in their hands while listening and watching its being read was amazing for my English Learners. They would look at their book and then at the screen, comparing the story and illustrations. It was a great teaching tool!</div>
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Many read-alouds can be found on YouTube, which is what I typically used. Here is The Very Hungry Caterpillar read by Eric Carle himself. (Since my ELs thought of him as a rock star, they were thrilled to watch it!)<br />
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In this video, Bill Martin reads Brown Bear, Brown Bear.</div>
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P.S. If your kiddos LOVE Eric Carle's books as my English Learners did (and my grands do) you can watch this animated version of five of his most popular books on Netflix through the end of June 2016. It includes Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, The Very Quiet Cricket, The Mixed-Up Chameleon, and I See a Song. (To be honest, $4.99 from Amazon would be a good investment, too!)</div>
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<br />Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-1508076487774417822016-03-25T09:05:00.000-07:002016-04-24T20:16:27.636-07:00The Kids Should DEFINITELY See This!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">TKSST was started in 2011, by <a href="https://about.me/nakaya" target="_blank">Rion Nakaya</a>, who curates it with the help of her own two children. She says, <span style="color: #990000;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There’s just so much science, nature, music, art, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven’t seen. It’s most likely not stuff that was made for them…</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i>But we don’t underestimate kids around here</i>."</span> That's my favorite! I always felt the textbooks I was provided tended to do that, and I would give my students much more detail and background so they could see the big picture. I think it made a difference.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 2400+ videos shared on the site include science, technology, space, animals, nature, food, DIY, music, art, and animation. What a treasure trove!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Parents, as well as teachers, will find SO much to love about this collection. Here's a video about making the gorgeous Pysanky Easter eggs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, before or after watching the video, you need to read your kiddos Patricia Polacco's <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0698113853/ref=rdr_ext_tmb" target="_blank">Rechenka's Eggs</a></i>! This beautiful book was always a favorite of my ESL students, and we would let them draw designs on plastic eggs after reading it. We also made bookmarks and did activities found on <a href="http://www.patriciapolacco.com/books/rechenkas_eggs/rechenkas_eggs_index.html" target="_blank">Polacco's book page</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enjoy <a href="http://thekidshouldseethis.com/" target="_blank">The Kid Should See This</a>, and please let me know what your favorite videos are!</span></div>
Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-23711595154928198162016-03-23T08:22:00.000-07:002016-03-23T08:22:09.392-07:00Nerdy Book Club: Using Picture Books to Introduce New Units<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The post I'm featuring today is <b>Top Ten Picture Books To Introduce Units Of Study</b>, by Kari Allen. In it, Kari describes how she used ten favorite books to introduce math, science, and other units to her second graders. Here's an example:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She says, "...it was the foundation for our writing (which we did in all subjects.) I started the year off by sharing this book with students." The next day "students would discover tons of stapled blank books that the Library Mouse left," and thus began their "yearlong (hopefully lifelong) inquiry into writing."</span></div>
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Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-56708716791828092252014-09-10T08:29:00.002-07:002014-09-10T08:38:24.901-07:00Donalyn Miller: No More Language Arts and Crafts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning, I simply have to share a <a href="http://bookwhisperer.com/2014/09/07/language-arts-and-crafts/">post from Donalyn Miller</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">over at </span><a href="http://bookwhisperer.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bookwhisperer.com</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It says so many things I want to say about reading and reading instruction. And while it may seem a bit critical at first, pay attention to what Donalyn says here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"I’m still learning how to be a better teacher. I’ve missed a lot of chances to connect my students with reading. I’ve created negative reading experiences in my classroom. I didn’t know what I know now. I learned. I grew. I evolved. I improved. I was a novice teacher once, but I’m not new any more. When you know better, you do better. No excuses."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are a teacher, I hope you will read the entire post, and then, as quickly as you can, read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Whisperer-Awakening-Reader/dp/0470372273/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y">The Book Whisperer</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Wild-Whisperers-Cultivating-Lifelong/dp/047090030X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y">Reading in the Wild</a>. I also hope (if you aren't already a fan) that you will read all you can by:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Penny Kittle - <a href="http://www.pennykittle.net/">http://www.pennykittle.net/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kristin Ziemke - <a href="http://www.kristinziemke.com/">http://www.kristinziemke.com/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kelly Gallagher - <a href="http://www.kellygallagher.org/">http://www.kellygallagher.org/</a></span></div>
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Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-82207007920190727232014-08-18T11:17:00.003-07:002014-08-18T16:46:26.506-07:00Asperger Experts <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am SO excited to share this with you today! I've known, taught, and observed people with Asperger's Syndrome since I was in elementary school (though I didn't know it at the time.) Most people I know in the education field, especially parents and teachers who love someone with AS, are constantly searching for better ways to help that person be successful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Danny Raede and Hayden Mears, both of whom <b>have</b> AS, have developed a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AspergerExperts">Facebook page</a>, a <a href="http://www.aspergerexperts.com/blog/">blog</a>, a <a href="http://www.aspergerexperts.com/coaching/">coaching/mentoring program</a>, reasonably priced <a href="http://www.aspergerexperts.com/products/">video products</a>, and a website, where there are links to 47 video clips posted on their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAeQGwuhu_eKj3j-5TDO92A">YouTube channel</a> that you can access for <b>FREE</b>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amazing, right? And who is better equipped to teach us about Asperger's Syndrome than real people who have it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many thanks to Erica Falvey, who shared this site to the FB group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/encouragingteachers/">Encouraging Teachers</a>. I'm SO glad to know about it and to share with you, and I hope you'll help spread the word to <i>your</i> friends and colleagues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more information about Asperger's Syndrome and other autism spectrum disorders, go to the wonderful <a href="http://www.autismspeaks.org/">Autism Speaks</a> website. </span></div>
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Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-4439229309933402502014-08-11T09:06:00.001-07:002014-08-11T14:47:17.943-07:00Teri Lesesne: Singing the Praises of Books and Reading<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's true that Sunday was yesterday, but I simply can't NOT share this "sermon" from <a href="http://www.shsu.edu/lis_tsl/">Teri Lesesne</a>, posted over at Nerdy Book Club.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Teri says, in part, "Our first priority is, of course, service to the students who come into our classrooms. In the picture book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Three-Questions-Based-story-Tolstoy/dp/0439199964/">The Three Questions</a> by Jon Muth, Nicolai has three burning questions: 'What is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do?'" </span><br />
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Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-82871661288431289792014-08-07T08:01:00.004-07:002014-08-07T08:12:23.302-07:00Picture Books for Science AND Readworks.org<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm on the deck this morning with four, yes FOUR, grandbabies 4-years-old and under. They've been having a fine <a href="http://www.kidsdiscover.com/teacherresources/bubbles-for-kids/">bubbles</a> party, which of course leads this retired (or "expired," as one little friend put it) science teacher to think about science.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've also been on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/nancymcneal/learning-twice-teaching-resources/">Pinterest</a>, where I found a link to a great blog post from Erica, over at <a href="http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/2014/03/science-picture-books-for-kids.html">What Do We Do All Day</a>. You NEED to go:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm also a fan of <a href="http://readworks.org/">Readworks</a>, which provides more than 1,000 leveled literary & nonfiction passages with questions, as well as comprehension & novel units, and skill & strategy units. You simply can't go wrong there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Erica recommends <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Boy-Who-Harnessed-Wind/dp/0803735111">The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind</a>,</i> by <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/book.html">William Kamkwamba</a> & <a href="http://bryanmealer.com/wind/">Bryan Mealer</a>. Cross-reference with Readworks, and you find a complete 3rd grade unit to use with that book! It includes a detailed lesson plan in three parts:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are new at teaching close reading, this is for you. If you aren't new, well, here's a lesson you don't have to create! As always, you should make it your own by tweaking any part of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be sure to look at all the books in Erica's list, and while you're looking at the Readworks links, check out what else is available there, for FREE. Just register, and everything on the site is yours. Enjoy!</span></div>
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Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-55594161924386922722014-01-20T18:25:00.000-08:002014-01-20T18:26:27.783-08:00Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a blog post one year ago, I shared links to great resources for studying about Dr. King's life. I hope they serve you well!</span><br />
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Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-85679271906871563792013-12-10T09:02:00.001-08:002014-09-10T17:37:46.387-07:00Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />The <a href="http://www.cal.org/siop/">official SIOP website</a> says that the "Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model is a research-based and validated instructional model that has proven effective in addressing the academic needs of English learners..." <b>but</b> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I learned while an ESL teacher that what worked for English Learners also worked for native English speakers.</span><br />
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Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-7335755338877841372013-12-06T20:28:00.000-08:002013-12-08T12:25:03.586-08:00Nelson Mandela 1918 - 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The world has lost a great warrior in the quest for freedom and justice. Please don't let this moment go by without engaging your students in reading, researching, discussing, and writing about "Madiba" - Nelson</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Rolihlahla Mandela.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I linked to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in a <a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2013/07/cures-for-common-core-blues-books-vol-8.html">post last July</a> about the book <u>Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.</u> Today I'm adding resources that offer retrospectives on his life and work, some of which include lesson plans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lesson plan from PBS: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/lessons_plans/remembering-nelson-mandela/">Remembering Nelson Mandela</a></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a slide show</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">images of the anti-apartheid struggle in posters from 1967 - 1994</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">memories of Mandela</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">his major speeches</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">his obituary</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've <a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/08/readworksorg.html">written before</a> about the amazing ReadWorks.org website, and I have to share today that they've just added 100 new passages. As you can see above, these include fiction and original reporting, in addition to science and social studies. The passages are identified by grade level and lexile. </span></div>
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Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-47756667988383437472013-11-05T12:49:00.000-08:002013-11-05T12:49:32.805-08:00Common Core Poetry Exemplars<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have good news from the <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/">Poetry Foundation</a>! This great group has collected almost 50 of the poems that are listed in <a href="http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf">Appendix B</a> of the CCSS, and they are available to you FREE. Links to the poems are found in the October 28 article </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/246782">Common Core State Standards Text Exemplars</a> on the foundation's website. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And while you're there, be sure to check out some of the MANY other resources available. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's say you decide to read <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174299">Carl Sandburg's "Fog"</a> with your 4th grade class. By clicking the Related Content tab above the poem, you'll find</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">links to 34 of his other poems</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">links to 15 audio and podcasts of his poetry</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">two archival recordings of Sandburg, from the mid 1900s</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> And that's just one of the poems on this website. Hustle on over and start finding great resources you can use with your own kiddos!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Update: Last August I wrote about the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's webpage that listed </i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">free, online sources for the </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>CCSS text exemplars that are public domain. Unfortunately, that document has been taken down, so I deleted the post from the blog. I hope this one helps with your poetry lessons!<br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A quick heads-up to all of you who use and love foldables (and those of you who soon will!) Mor Zrihen, a teacher in south Florida, blogs over at <a href="http://www.ateacherstreasure.com/" target="_blank">A Teacher's Treasure</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She shares her own collection at the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.ateacherstreasure.com/p/foldifun-factory.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Foldables FoldiFun Factory</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> tab on her blog. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Giving credit to </span><a href="http://www.dinah.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Dinah Zike</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, who holds the registered trademark fo</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">r foldables, Mor describes them as <i>"interactive 3D graphic organizers (that) encourage student ownership of study material, provide a kinesthetic component to teaching strategies, and prom</i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ote long-term retention of academic lessons." </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click on over and see what you can use, offered FREE from this great blogger!</span></div>
Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-31824094414931001212013-08-13T18:45:00.002-07:002013-08-13T18:45:32.352-07:00Common Core Writing? Help is Here!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A truly<b> amazing </b>Common Core resource was just released this summer! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.achievethecore.org/" target="_blank">Achieve the Core</a> now offers on its website a FREE book - the 686 page <b><i><a href="http://www.achievethecore.org/files/9313/7628/8979/Big_1_DR8.12.pdf" target="_blank">In Common: Effective Writing for All Students Collection of All Student Work Samples, K-12</a>,</i></b> by The Vermont Writing Collaborative, with Student Achievement Partners and CCSSO. It is a PDF document that you can download and print. Before you think, "PRINT 686 pages?!" remember that no one will need to print the entire document. Instead, you can pick and choose the parts that you need, and print them as you need them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you teach ELA, I believe you'll find it invaluable. Check out the Table of Contents:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Jim Patterson, a lead writer of the ELA/Literacy Common Core State Standards, says that while CCSS Appendix C "</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sought to illustrate by example what it meant to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">say that a given piece of writing met the Standards, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the included works had not been written </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">expressly to the Standards. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>In Common</i></b> advances the work begun in Appendix C.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joanna Hawkins and Diana Leddy led the effort to complete this project and make it available to teachers across the nation. Patterson explains its value in several ways:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is the result of "an intriguing real-world 'experiment' in on-demand writing."</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The writers "</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">crafted grade-specific argument, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">informative/explanatory, and narrative writing prompts...based on source texts and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">intended to elicit student samples written to nearly uniform tasks across broad grade bands." </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The result is "a stepwise progression of ever-more-sophisticated writing samples with a common </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">baseline."</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The switch to the CCSS is huge by anyone's standards, and resources like this one should help to make the transition easier for everyone who teaches writing. I hope it helps you!</span></div>
Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-4123536064638721732013-08-08T13:11:00.001-07:002013-08-08T13:11:35.594-07:00Booklists for the Common Core from Reading Rockets<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost a year ago, I <a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/09/reading-rockets.html" target="_blank">wrote about</a> the many resources available from <a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/" target="_blank">Reading Rockets</a>, the national multimedia literacy initiative of <a href="https://www.wetalearningmedia.org/" target="_blank">WETA's Learning Media</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the current transition to Common Core State Standards, one of the most useful resources for those of you who teach K-4 is their <a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/books/booksbytheme/" target="_blank">Themed Booklists</a>. As you create your CCSS ELA units, you </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">will</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be searching for stories and informational text that you can sequence appropriately for your kiddos. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And while your reading textbooks will provide a starting point, you will need to search out other quality texts, a daunting task to accomplish on your own! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <b>150+</b> booklists found on the Reading Rockets site can help. Below is just a sampling of booklists you'll find there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every list I previewed consisted of ten books, with a nice mix of fiction and informational text. Check it out - just another awesome FREE resource from this great site. And while you're there look at what else Reading Rockets offers! </span></div>
Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-71577911917169047302013-08-01T08:17:00.000-07:002013-08-01T20:05:02.502-07:00Common Core Resources for ELLs at Colorín Colorado<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And another "Bravo!" to </span><a href="http://www.colorincolorado.org/common-core/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Colorín Colorado</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. As an ESL teacher I consulted this amazing website often, and it's no surprise that these resources are now available here. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to the work done by the Albuquerque teachers, you'll find information for teachers who<i> "might be trying to figure out what their role in supporting students and content teachers should be in the common-core era"</i> as well as p</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">arent resources.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hurry over and see what you can use, and enjoy the work of teachers who are willing to share - the BEST kind! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love <a href="http://www.scholastic.com/" target="_blank">Scholastic</a> for many reasons; the newest is their <a href="http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/index.htm" target="_blank">Listen and Read</a> site, where they provide 54 <b>FREE</b> nonfiction read-along ebooks for primary students. Your kiddos can access them on a computer or tablet, or you can use them with a group on an interactive whiteboard. They are sorted by subject and by level, with a good mix of science and social studies topics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So why is it called <i>Listen</i> and Read? Because each of the ebooks is also an audiobook - by clicking on a "listen" button, your beginning reader can hear the words on the screen as she reads along. A nice feature at the end of each story is a list of vocabulary words.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I learned about this great resource via a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheOrganizedClassroomBlog" target="_blank">Facebook post by Charity Preston</a>, who writes the <a href="http://www.theorganizedclassroomblog.com/" target="_blank">Organized Classroom</a> blog. Charity's post linked to a Pinterest pin by Carolyn Wilhelm, who operates the <a href="http://www.thewiseowlfactory.com/" target="_blank">Wise Owl Factory</a>. Both of these sites offer a ton of free resources themselves, and are definitely worthy of a visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoy, and have a great weekend!</span>Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-23998555374102483722013-07-18T14:07:00.001-07:002013-07-18T14:07:07.830-07:00Cures for the Common Core Blues: BOOKS, Vol. 8<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday, and in his honor I'm suggesting that you read <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nelson-Mandela-Long-Walk-Freedom/dp/B004A14WBI/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0" target="_blank">Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom</a></i> with your students. <a href="http://amazon.com/" target="_blank">Amazon</a>'s book description says that the book</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> "offers a glimpse into the mind of a great leader, admired across the globe for his dedication to the struggles against apartheid in South Africa. Now the youngest readers can discover the remarkable story of Mandela's long walk from ordinary village boy, to his dynamic leadership of the African National Congress, to his many long years in prison-and, at last, his freedom and astonishing rise to become the leader of his country."</i> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">T</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he American Library Association recommends the book for 2nd - 6th graders. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is also <a href="http://www.mandeladay.com/" target="_blank">Mandela Day</a>, which seeks "t</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o inspire individuals to take action to help change the world for the better, and in doing so build a global movement for good."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you study this modern-day revolutionary hero, you can incorporate essential skills in geography with history and the government of South Africa where, after 27 years as a political prisoner, Mandela was president from 1994 until 1999.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I can imagine using the book to kick off a nonfiction unit for 7th and 8th graders to culminate in a writing assignment that compares/contrasts the struggle to end apartheid with the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. Citing evidence after close reading and perhaps using graphic organizers to organize ideas? Common Core to the, well, core!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoy learning along with your kiddos, and please, let this book and <a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/#uds-search-results" target="_blank">others in the series</a> help cure your CC Blues!</span></div>
Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-88825163031190907762013-06-11T19:10:00.000-07:002013-06-11T19:11:28.425-07:00Start with a Book. Read. Talk. Explore.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I LOVE <a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/" target="_blank">Reading Rockets</a>, and I'm thrilled to share with you their companion website, <a href="http://www.startwithabook.org/" target="_blank">Start With a Book</a>, launched just last year to<i> "ward off the learning loss that many children experience over the summer. (It) offers adults engaging, research-based ideas for getting kids into books all summer and beyond."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my favorite sections is <a href="http://www.startwithabook.org/fluent-kids" target="_blank">Fluent Kids</a>, where the importance of fluency is explained, <i>"Fluency is the bridge between decoding words and understanding what has been read,"</i> and followed with an abundance of suggestions and tips for helping your child build her confidence and skills so she can focus her attention on what the story or text <b>means</b>. Your kiddo will love buddy reading with you, rereading favorite books, recording herself reading, or listening to audiobooks from your public library.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, go on. Click over to <a href="http://www.startwithabook.org/" target="_blank">Start with a Book</a>, and read, talk, and explore...all summer long! </span></div>
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Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-86238664010905387462013-04-30T14:02:00.001-07:002013-04-30T14:25:20.579-07:00CCSS Initiatives for ELLs<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a quick share today for those who teach English Language Learners, whether in ESL or regular classrooms. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TESOL International Association released an issue brief just last month titled <a href="http://www.tesol.org/docs/advocacy/overview-of-common-core-state-standards-initiatives-for-ells-a-tesol-issue-brief-march-2013.pdf" target="_blank">Overview of the </a></span><a href="http://www.tesol.org/docs/advocacy/overview-of-common-core-state-standards-initiatives-for-ells-a-tesol-issue-brief-march-2013.pdf" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Common Core State Standards Initiatives for ELLs</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Its stated purpose is to "provide a comprehensive overview of the policies </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">behind the CCSS and to outline some of the initiatives now in place to address the needs of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">English language learners (ELLs) in relation to the CCSS."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you teach ELLs, you <i>need</i> to read this brief. One of its most important features is a table that shows the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> three overarching English Language Arts/Literacy CCSS Shifts side by side with</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the continuum of expertise, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">according to <a href="http://achievethecore.org/" target="_blank">Achieve the Co</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://achievethecore.org/" target="_blank">re</a>, that teachers will need "to ensure that ELLs </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with varying levels of first language literacy, background knowledge, and English language </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">proficiency can achieve the CCSS."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Important knowledge for everyone, since ALL teachers are teachers of English Learners!</span>Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-28842184869701001522013-04-19T09:48:00.005-07:002013-04-19T09:52:27.356-07:00Reading Beyond the "Popular Posts"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just want to remind you that there are MANY resources on the blog<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>that don't appear in the right-side column as "Popular Posts." </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below are some of my favorites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want to make your science classes more effective, you NEED to read these three posts about inquiry:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-private-universe-it-will-change-your.html" target="_blank">A Private Universe - It will change your life!</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-private-universe-it-will-change-your.html" target="_blank">A Private Universe - Second in a Series</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/09/teaching-science-through-inquiry-last.html" target="_blank">Teaching Science Through Inquiry - Last in the Series</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thinking ahead to next year? Consider using <a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/07/todays-awesome-share-is-httpplanbook.html" target="_blank">Planbook</a> as your very convenient online planning book/tool. I guarantee it will make your life easier with its pull-down lists of standards and its calendar format.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/10/white-flour-book-and-video.html" target="_blank">White Flour - the Book and the Video</a> is personally meaningful to me, as a southerner and the mom of a missionary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think you'll love Booksource's <a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/07/classroom-library-organizer.html" target="_blank">Classroom Library Organizer</a> to keep track of all those books that are so important to your students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Staying with the book theme, <a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/07/readkiddoread.html" target="_blank">ReadKiddoRead</a> is James Patterson's </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.09090805053711px;">initiative "dedicated to making kids readers for life." You'll find videos, lists of suggested books by level and genre, suggestions for lesson plans, discussion groups, and more!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.087499618530273px;">I love the books I wrote about in the "Cures for the Common Core Blues" series: </span></span><br />
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<li><a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/10/cures-for-common-core-blues-books-vol-2.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Pink and Say</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/10/cures-for-common-core-blues-books-vol-3.html" target="_blank">My </a></span><a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/10/cures-for-common-core-blues-books-vol-3.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Name is Maria Isabel</a></li>
<li><a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/11/cures-for-common-core-blues-books-vol-4.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tom</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">á</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s and the Library Lady</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/11/cures-for-common-core-blues-books-vol-5.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Inch by Inch</a></li>
<li><a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/11/cures-for-common-core-blues-books-vol-6.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">The Keeping Quilt</a></li>
<li><a href="http://nancymcneal.blogspot.com/2012/12/cures-for-common-core-blues-books-vol-7.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Goin' Someplace Special</a></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be on the lookout for more of these!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember to use the "Labels" list to find posts related to particular ideas and subjects. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't forget to follow the blog, and h</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ave a great weekend!</span>Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-45855894667059395152013-03-24T16:27:00.001-07:002013-03-26T07:16:31.290-07:00Book-Love<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've written before about my daughter's book blog; <a href="http://awornpath.blogspot.com/2013/03/reading-in-classroom-fault-in-our-stars.html" target="_blank">her latest post</a> is one that warms the heart of a teacher/Mom/Gran-Nan who loves to read and wants the children in her life to love reading, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joanna describes how she read </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Green's </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Fault in Our Stars</i> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at school while her students read their independent books: <i>"My students delighted in watching me read it, as I laughed out loud, (and) shared lines and paragraphs with them. (They) could hardly wait for me to finish so they could fight over who would check it out next from our school library. I finally felt, with my reading of <a href="http://johngreenbooks.com/the-fault-in-our-stars/">The Fault in Our Stars</a>, that I could at last show my students what it means to fall head over heels in love with a book -- with the characters, with their predicaments, with the plot ups and downs."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, Joanna's blog is just one of many that review great books for young people and adults. If you're especially looking for teachers to follow who are dedicated to instilling a love of reading, I suggest that you start with:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sarah Mulhern Gross, contributor at <a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/" target="_blank">The Learning Network at the New York Times</a>, who blogs at <a href="http://thereadingzone.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The Reading Zone</a>, and is <a href="https://twitter.com/thereadingzone" target="_blank">@thereadingzone</a> on Twitter, and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm looking forward to reading this book, and perhaps seeing <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582846/" target="_blank">the movie</a>, which is currently in pre-production.</span></div>
Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-51979569612117455422013-03-15T13:25:00.001-07:002013-03-15T13:25:32.412-07:00Roll ~ Say ~ Keep Games<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So yesterday, at the school where I work as an Academic Specialist, I got yet another great idea FROM one of the teachers. She had been to a PD session and came back talking about something she heard there. A quick <a href="http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Contents.html" target="_blank">Google</a>, and one thing led to another. Yep, another teacher theft moment! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm so thankful that great teachers share their ideas with the rest of us, and I'm especially thankful today for <span id="goog_1332333269"></span>Kathy Gursky<span id="goog_1332333270"></span> and her website, <a href="http://www.theschoolbell.com/" target="_blank">The School Bell</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kathy puts me in mind of the awesome Cherry Carl because her site is packed with so many good ideas for activities, graphics, games, and projects. I want to show you just one piece of her "<a href="http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Contents.html" target="_blank">Dolch Kit</a>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you teach primary students, you know that a huge key to fluent reading is knowing sight words well. Kathy has downloadable sets of flash cards, phrase cards, and mini-flashcards that are perfect for playing "Roll ~ Say ~ Keep!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I downloaded all 11 sets of Kathy's <a href="http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Directions/rollkeep.h" target="_blank">mini word cards</a> and adapted the game board slightly. You can download my board below. I printed, mounted on construction paper, and laminated. Our 1st grade teacher and SPED teacher are all set to let their students </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strike>play a new </strike><strike>game</strike> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">practice essential sight words...shhh! ;-)</span><br />
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Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-42943002349709761882013-03-08T21:03:00.000-08:002013-03-09T20:23:18.783-08:00An Excellent Find: E is for Explore!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are going to LOVE the site I have to share with you tonight! I came across it via a science activity posted to <a href="http://pinterest.com/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, and was I ever amazed and delighted when I followed the link to Erin Bittman's blog, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/erinbittman/about-me" target="_blank">E is for Explore</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/erinbittman/about-me" target="_blank">Erin</a> blends graphic design, her original career, with her current path toward becoming a teacher, to "develop unique learning activities, search the internet and compile additional great ideas from other sources." Her site is chock-full of manipulatives and activities useful across the curriculum, from literacy to math and engineering, and she provides easy links to sites that she shares.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since Easter is coming soon, I'll show you images from one of Erin's posts, wherein she shares activities from inferencing to fractions using <a href="http://eisforexplore.blogspot.com/2013/02/plastic-eggs_15.html" target="_blank">Plastic Eggs</a>: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great, huh? Click on over to Erin's blog, where "a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ll 'E is for Explore' activities conform to state common core curriculum standards."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you're welcome! :-)</span>Nancy McNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397150210505304088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4771239996687605090.post-1596383830603095252013-02-02T11:11:00.001-08:002013-02-02T15:53:10.993-08:00Why Inquiry? RAD<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I met <a href="http://www.radteach.com/">Dr. Judy Willis</a> a few years ago, when she presented her RAD ideas to science teachers and professional developers at <a href="http://mtsu.edu/" target="_blank">Middle Tennessee State University</a>. In order to share her research at </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">later</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> PD sessions, I summarized it, and I want to share the handout that accompanied my sessions with you. (It was sent to her for approval first.)<br /><br />Her story is unique:<i> "Dr. Judy Willis, a board-certified neurologist in Santa Barbara, California, has combined her 15 years as a practicing adult and child neurologist with her teacher education training and years of classroom experience. After five years teaching at Santa Barbara Middle School, and ten years of classroom teaching all together, in 2010, Dr. Willis reluctantly left teaching middle school students and dedicated herself full-time to teaching educators."</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I. Lessons should be organized to engage students’ brains in order for them to acquire <b>content knowledge. </b></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our planning should revolve around this question: “How can my students use inquiry to acquire knowledge and develop understanding so that knowledge can be applied to other areas of their learning and their lives?” </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />During inquiry activities, YOU facilitate as YOUR STUDENTS make meaning for themselves; you may need to provide direct instruction at multiple points during an inquiry-based unit. </span><br />
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<br />The goal of our teaching is that acquired information gets to the conscious, cognitive brain so that new learning reaches long-term memory <u>and</u> becomes useable, transferable knowledge. <br /><br />To reach the “conscious brain,” sensory input must be <b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>R</u></span>eticular Activating System</b> “selected.” The reactive brain responds to stimuli with fight/flight/freeze. <br /><br />We must get past that filter with stability and familiarity, and then captivate <b>R.A.S. </b>attention/stimulate curiosity with </span><br />
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<li>Change, novelty, surprise </li>
<li>Prior knowledge activation </li>
<li>Advertising </li>
<li>Color, costumes </li>
<li>Music, movement </li>
<li>Discrepant events </li>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Some ideas to make your lessons <b>R.A.S.</b> selected: </span><br />
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<li>Walk backwards into and around the room before beginning a discussion about negative numbers </li>
<li>Put on a “thinking cap” to indicate that what comes next is very important </li>
<li>Show a book trailer to stimulate interest in a novel before reading it. </li>
<li>Use color-coded highlighters for labeling key words, important points, etc. </li>
<li>Set up a think-pair-share or a jigsaw so students know they will be doing something with information they gain during a reading/listening activity </li>
<li>Start with a current or local event – anything that promotes “buy-in” </li>
<li>Alert students to information that connects with their personally valued goals </li>
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<br />The <b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>A</u></span>mygdala</b> responds to interest, relevance, and pleasure. Students (or people) who are in a positive emotional state have an open amygdala leading directly to the prefrontal cortex, where long-term memory resides. Students who are stressed have no passage to the prefrontal cortex. Brain scans show a direct path to the prefrontal cortex during a happy state and no activation of the passage to the prefrontal cortex during sadness, anger, or fear. <br /><br />Causes of school stress include </span><br />
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<li>Being embarrassed to read aloud </li>
<li>Anxiety about taking tests </li>
<li>Physical and language differences </li>
<li>Bullying and cliques </li>
<li>Frustration with material that is too difficult – zone of proximal development </li>
<li>Boredom - many children have been robbed of the joy of successful learning because of boredom caused by teach-to-the-test rote memorization. </li>
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<i>The greatest fear reported by students is making a mistake in a whole-class setting. Supportive classrooms are those where students feel safe enough to take the risk of participating and being “smart”...and even risk making mistakes! </i></div>
</i><br />Inquiry is de-stressing. <br /><ul>
<li>It builds a classroom learning community that invites participation by all students. </li>
<li>It connects with prior knowledge. </li>
<li>It invites pleasurable engagement through prediction. </li>
<li>It provides learning practice where students learn to use their reflective rather than reactive brain networks. </li>
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<br />The <b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>D</u></span>opamine</b> response is inspiration, motivation, curiosity, creativity, persistence, and perseverance. Dopamine is released when we are given choices as well as when we are moving, collaborating, enjoying music, and feeling self-appreciation. The results are acting kindly, interacting well with friends, expressing gratitude, and feeling optimistic. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<i>Choice = ownership on the part of the learner </i></div>
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<i>Group learning increases dopamine and builds pleasure-associated memories</i>. </div>
<br /><u>Acetylcholine</u> Bonus – When dopamine levels are high, acetylcholine is released and “...by enhancing the response to sensory input, high levels of acetylcholine enhance attention to the environment...by enhancing the response to external input, high levels of acetylcholine enhance the encoding of memory for specific stimuli, allowing more effective and accurate encoding of sensory events.” ~Michael E. Hasselmo & Jill McGaughy, Dept. of Psychology, Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University <br /><br />Consolidation occurs in the hippocampus, where new information is encoded with previously stored related knowledge: <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
If it is <b>isolated,</b> </div>
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it isn’t <b>consolidated.</b> </div>
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It MUST be <b>related!</b> </div>
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<u>Patterning</u> is matching prior knowledge to new information to encode new memory. Long-term memories are made through pattern construction in the brain – Piaget’s “schema” are mental maps or categories of knowledge that grow through pattern association. Good inquiries don’t have a simple, single answer (just like real life) - they encourage students to recognize and build patterns, thus connecting new information into their brains’ neural wiring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Dewey said, “We don’t learn from experience, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we learn by reflecting on it.” </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>“Dend-writes”</b> for mental manipulation </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<li>Draw a picture, diagram, or graphic organizer of what you learned. </li>
<li>React to the most surprising thing you learned today. </li>
<li>Reflect on how something you learned connects to something you already knew. </li>
<li>Predict what will come next. </li>
<li>Make a note of what is still confusing to you. </li>
<li>Write about a new/better understanding that you have. </li>
<li>Describe a strategy you used to solve a problem today. </li>
<li>Describe a “so what” – the one thing you’ll remember most about today’s lesson. </li>
<li>Write about how this lesson connects to things you learn in other subjects. </li>
<li>Compare/contrast, categorize, or summarize an aspect of the lesson. </li>
<li>Create an analogy that explains what this lesson reminded you about or how it fits with what you already knew. </li>
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<b>You</b> can use your students’ <b>dend-writes</b> to: <br /><ul>
<li>Know how accurately the lesson was understood </li>
<li>Correct any misperceptions at the next class meeting </li>
<li>Ask students whose responses were especially good to share those insights with the class as review or to promote discussion. </li>
<li>Post good responses as “back-pats” </li>
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III. Inquiry-centered learning builds <b>reasoning</b> skills or “executive functions.” </span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The prefrontal cortex is only about 15% of the brain’s volume; we have to make it count! Our goal is to turn information into usable, transferable knowledge. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />The brain’s <i>executive functions</i> include <br /><ul>
<li>Judgment </li>
<li>Prioritizing </li>
<li>Analyzing information </li>
<li>Decision making </li>
<li>Goal planning </li>
<li>Organizing </li>
<li>Inferring </li>
<li>Synthesizing </li>
<li>Integrating </li>
<li>Problem-solving </li>
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<b>Call it HOTS, critical thinking, or whatever you like...this is our goal!</b></div>
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