What Do I Do When Students Interrupt with Personal Stories?
Capture Student Stories in a Mail Box Teachers often ask, "What do I do when students interrupt with personal stories?" Ruby Hibdon shares her solution.
How One Teacher Used Visuals and Groups to Chunk Her Lesson
In Ms. Crissy Amerson's sixth grade Language Arts classroom, she and her paraprofessional, Linda Maldanado, chunked the lesson plan integrating visuals, video and group process to maintain student engagement and focus. She applied several strategies that we had discussed the previous day to enhance and differentiate her language arts lesson on adjectives.
Evernote Clearly – Fantastic Solution for Students with Reading and Organizational Difficulties!
Evernote Clearly - Fantastic Solution for Students with Reading and Organizational Difficulties! Talk about a MAJOR solution for students or (adults) with ADD, reading difficulties, or vision issues!
Seven Effective Strategies for Using Curation Apps to Engage Students
Curating Strategies that Engage Students - Go beyond collecting and provoke higher level thinking. Are you using these, or other tools to curate information for your classes? If so, tell us what tools you use and how you use the information you collect.
Do You Know the Reading Level of Student Texts and Handouts?
Recently, I've found huge discrepancies between Lexile scores, DRA's (Developmental Reading Assessment) and Readablity formulas such as SMOG, FRY and when I asked a reading specialist to explain the difference at a conference recently, she evaded the question by telling me (and the audience) to simply pick one and stick to that one. I disagree.