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Category: Open Court Reading
Reading Fluency vs. Reading for Speed
In California, our unit assessments which align with the Open Court Reading series aren’t from the publishers of Open Court but from the Sacramento County Office of Education. The tests’ emphasis on timing students reading leads teachers to teach reading in a dibels-like fashion with reading passages typed with numbers of words written at the …
Parent Resources to Support Reading At Home
Here are the slides from a parent workshop I led for parents on how to help your child learn to read at home. This was for an audience of several English Language Learners and so there is some Spanish and references to Spanish mixed in. I tried to keep the slideshow as visual as possible. …
Concept Question Board Banners
At the top and in the middle of your Concept Question Board should be a banner with the name of your theme on it. I’ve created a series of banners for almost every unit in both OCR 2000 and OCR 2002 that can be printed out and put up. I’ve used photos rather than clip …
Teaching Parts of Speech
Here’s an engaging activity for teaching parts of speech through song. This is particularly useful for English Language Learners. Post a large piece of butcher paper and have multiple colored markers available. Prompt students for a list of adjectives which you list on a color coded chart. Do the same for nouns, verbs, and prepositional …
K12 Online Conference
Now in its second year, the free K12 Online Conference 2008 will be held the last two weeks of October. There will be forty presentations which will be released two per day. However, once the presentations are available you can view them at any time. Indeed, the presentations from previous years are still online and …
Anatomy of a Concept Question Board
Perhaps I’ve been a little too obtuse in my discussion of the Concept Question Board as related to Wikipedia and Jung’s theory of collective unconscious. Let’s step back a little and make sure you have the basic things that you’re supposed to on the board… See this image larger. Also related: Everything You Always Wanted …
National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults
Here’s an awesome site found by way of Macworld Magazine. It organizes primary sources by keyword and historical event and allows you to move from one to another as if you are unlocking a vault. It’s a great way to take an exploratory approach to learning about history and to engage visual learners.
Open Court in the Special Education Classroom
This question comes frequently from special education classrooms who are teaching the Open Court Reading Program… I have a classroom of fifth graders reading at a first grade level. Can’t I just teach my fifth graders the first grade curriculum? While fifth grade students may not be able to read, they can certainly comprehend, are …
Constitution Day Activities
Teaching with Documents. Primary Source material for teaching about the Constitution. Constitution Day wiki. Constitution Day FAQ with activities from the Constitution Center. Library of Congress Constitution Day resources. Education World Constitution Day activities. Here are some more activities for Constitution Day. And a movie, just for fun. (If Youtube is blocked in your school, …