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Day In A Sentence

Started by the now retired from blogging, Reflective Teacher, and taken up by Kevin Hodgson I am a guest host this week for the first Day in a Sentence of 2008. Here are the simple rules: Boil down your week, your day, or even your year into a single sentence Use the comment feature here …

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Daily Journal Idea

Submitted by Guy Swentek… Students write every day in a single-subject spiral notebook that they will take home every night for review and return every day. Some “typical” writings/lessons for the week: Monday – spelling words/sentences Tuesday – phonics & fluency Wednesday – word knowledge Thursday – vocabulary & context meaning Friday – writing lesson …

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Heritage Poetry Writing Idea

submitted by Francie Kugelman This is a popular poem template which I found http://www.swva.net/fred1st/wif.htm”>online: The WHERE I’M FROM Template I am from _______ (specific ordinary item), from _______ (product name) and _______. I am from the _______ (home description… adjective, adjective, sensory detail). I am from the _______ (plant, flower, natural item), the _______ (plant, …

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Comic Life and Open Court: Simple Technology, Higher Level Thinking, 21st Century Skills

  see Comic Life examples used with Open Court Reading   see general curricular uses of Comic Life At the second session of Closing the Digital Divide, Integrating Technology in the Open Court Curriculum which I taught at the Los Angeles County Office of Education, we continued our work with Digital Video and Clay Animation. …

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Writing About Dreams

Here’s a fun activity for teaching creative writing at any grade level. It aligns particularly well with folktale units (folktales, sharing stories, storytelling) but can be adapted to other units as well. Special thanks to Susan Obuchi for submitting this idea. I have students draw a picture of themselves sleeping with their head on a …

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Writer’s Workshop

I’m hearing some online grumbling about Writer’s Workshop lately, specifically how you come up with mini-lessons. The good news…you don’t have to have a book to give you mini-lessons (although I can recommend a few) On the first day you model for students how you write but after that, your mini-lessons come from assessing your …

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