Multi Text Unit
Multi-Text Unit 5th grade Wix Site: http://www.wix.com/re4030thecountdown/5thgradeunit
Reciprocal Teaching, Glogging, and The Capture
400 new vocabulary words a year! Wow! Students have the ability to learn and academically grow with the right teachers aiding them along their journey. From the PowerPoint it can be viewed that vocabulary is a critical factor in a student’s life. No more of this 20 words per week; teachers should be selective and … Read more
Morphology
I found this article to be very interesting and useful. I think that morphology is something that is taken for granted and not taught as often as it should be. From my own experience I know that I learned about morphology without ever knowing explicitly what it meant. I think that if I would have … Read more
Workshop and Owls
This article was very interesting. I am always intrigued to find ways to integrate technology skills into the classroom. I really like how the article broke down the steps to an effective and successful workshop. This is something that would be time consuming for teachers and it is helpful to know how to do it … Read more
DED
As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom. Author: Richard Michelson Illustrator: Raul Colon http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmheroes1.html http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/ http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/ http://www.streetlaw.org/en/Case.6.aspx 1. Passage from the Book What it means to me…Connections, Questions, Ideas, Comments It was hot in Georgia and Martin wanted to swim in the pool, but the sign said … Read more
Read Aloud on Friday September 23, 2011
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! Author: Mo Willems Illustrator: Mo Willems Grade Level: 1st – 2nd Genre: Fiction, Picture Book: almost like a comic Before reading a book to my class I had Dr. Frye help me pick out a book that my students would absolutely love. I desired a book that they … Read more
Shared Readings.
This article really opened my eyes and mind to the entire shared reading process. Before reading this article I had a different view on what a shared reading was. I thought that it was simply a book that the teacher shared with the class, where he/she occasionally stopped to ask comprehension questions to the students … Read more
SSR makeover edition
This article really allowed me to draw from previous experiences and connections and link them to what we are currently learning in Block Two. I have spent countless hours as a student in a classroom throughout my years of schooling participating in SSR. I was one of the students that you could consider a “fake … Read more
Acrostic Poetry
“A poem is not a puzzle to be solved. A poem is an experience…” The above quote really stuck out to me in class last week. It was so interesting to hear how many of my peers had the same experiences with poetry as I did. In high school I found myself looking at most … Read more
Poetry.
Poetry has always been a beautiful art form in my eyes. My grandmother writes poetry, so it is something near and dear to my heart. I have never really felt that I could write poetry very well. I always felt that my words needed to rhyme. I realize that poetry is much more then rhyming … Read more
