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Shmoop: Online Learning with Attitude
Think Cliff’s Notes with more zing. And more information. And more topics (history! biology! driver’s ed!). Fun to use and fun to say, Shmoop offers high-quality learning tools that stand out from the...
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Why is my kid allowed to make spelling mistakes?
Dear Cult of Pedagogy, Last week, my son brought home a stack of papers from his first-grade class. Some of them had obvious spelling errors, but no one had marked them wrong. Later that same day, I...
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The Mind’s Eye Strategy
This pre-reading lesson is EASY to prepare and results in a richer text experience for students. Some texts are just hard for students to get into. A certain book, article or chapter might contain...
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Know Your Terms: Code Switching
code switching (noun) the practice of changing one’s language, dialect or speaking style to better fit one’s environment. Overview When you talk to your closest friends, you probably sound a little...
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Nothing Says Over 40 Like Two Spaces after a Period!
(Before I start, I should mention that I am over 40, so I can make fun of the over 40. So there.) I learned to type in 1987 on an IBM Selectric typewriter. A typewriter, not a computer. We had...
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Your child has nightly reading homework. What should YOU be doing?
This guest post comes from Carolyn Wilhelm of the Wise Owl Factory. Kindergarten, first, and second grade teachers often give children a nightly assignment to read aloud for 10 to 20 minutes....
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6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2015
While doing research for my upcoming e-book, The Teacher’s Guide to Tech, I have come across dozens of tools with pretty awesome potential for teaching and learning. These six are the ones I think are...
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7 Easy Ways to Support Student Writing in Any Content Area
More teachers are being asked to support student literacy in all content areas. For those trained in English language arts, this isn’t a big deal. But if you have spent your career learning best...
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Back to Basics: A Review of Mike Schmoker’s “Focus”
Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning by Mike Schmoker 237 pages, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, January 2011 Buy Now The links in this...
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Book Review: The Best-Kept Teaching Secret
The Best-Kept Teaching Secret: How Written Conversations Engage Kids, Activate Learning, and Grow Fluent Writers by Harvey A. “Smokey” Daniels & Elaine Daniels, 248 pages, Corwin Literacy,...
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Speed Up Grading with Rubric Codes
Do you have a mountain of student writing to grade? A pile of extended responses that have been sitting in your passenger seat for a week? Do you wish you had more time to give students better...
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Shmoop: Online Learning with Attitude
Think Cliff’s Notes with more zing. And more information. And more topics (history! biology! driver’s ed!). Fun to use and fun to say, Shmoop offers high-quality learning tools that stand out from the...
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A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Argumentative Writing
Listen to this post as a podcast: For seven years, I was a writing teacher. Yes, I was certified to teach the full spectrum of English language arts—literature, grammar and usage, speech, drama,...
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Student-Made E-Books: A Beautiful Way to Demonstrate Learning
Listen to this post as a podcast: You’ve reached the end of a unit or year, and you want students to demonstrate their learning in a way that requires them to synthesize information, apply it in...
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Building Relationships with Students Through Books
This is the fourth installment in a year-long series of written and video diary entries by Shelby Denhof, who is letting us follow her first year of teaching. To see all entries, click here. Links...
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9 Tips for Engaging Your English Class with Pop Culture
This guest post has been contributed by Jay Meadows. I’ve been teaching English for many years, across multiple grade levels, from middle school to high school to college. I’ve read (and have...
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Graphic Novels in the Classroom: A Teacher Roundtable
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