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How To Scaffold Annotation For Independent Learning
Annotation is the record of a students' conversation with a text. As sophomores, my students usually have some previous experience with annotation, but they are not independent. Because annotation is so valuable, one of my goals is to help my students become independent in annotations. However, my students aren't always excited about annotation and close reading. For this reason, I have developed 5 Commandments of Teaching Annotation: relevance, freedom, organization, scaffolding, and focus.
Simplify your teaching now, using Bloom’s Taxonomy Question Stems
Do you know all the question stems for each level of Bloom's Taxonomy? If you're teaching in the class or online, this is your resource!
Ideas for Teaching with Tech! #mooreenglish @moore-english.com
Educational technology is essential in a world of distance learning and remote teaching! Making #edtech is essential to keeping a digital classroom and learning management system running smoothly! Technology provides countless opportunities for blended learning, hybrid teaching, collaboration in the digital space, and for students to learn 21st century skills that prepare them to be critical thinkers and problem solvers. Using classroom technology in a meaningful way is best practices now!
11 Unexpected Chrome Extensions for Busy Teachers
Chrome Extensions are essential to work smarter not harder. They help busy teachers (and teacher authors) stay sane during distance learning! These are Chrome extensions that promote efficiency, productivity, and streamline educational technology. There are also recommendations for teacher authors and teacher bloggers! #edtech #googelclassroom #googlechrome #googleeducation
The Best Bell Work for Your ELA Class
Classroom journals are an opportunity for students to write everyday. Getting in the habit of daily writing helps students with brainstorming and putting their thought son paper. Additionally, classroom journals are a great way to build classroom community as students share their writing with one another. Furthermore, journals can be a good tool for teaching writing and reading. Reading journals can help students work on characterization, theme, main idea, author's purpose, and point of view.
How to Begin and End Classroom Discussions / Moore English
Elevate classroom discussions and make every discussion meaningful with these four simple pre- and post-discussion strategies! These are strategies to invite students to establish discussion norms, practice generating questions, engage one another in meaningful Socratic Seminars, and thinking reflectively and metacognitively. Perfect for secondary teachers across social studies and English language arts.
5 Ways to Engage Students in a New Unit / Moore English
5 Ways to Engage Students in a New Unit / Moore English
Surprising Lessons from Building My First Escape Room
Toward the end of March, my juniors took the ACT, and I saw an opportunity to try my hand at creating an escape room. Overall, the process was fun for the students, took some of the stress out of their upcoming test, and taught me some great lessons about gamification. Here are the secrets I learned from creating my first escape room.
30 Ways to Teach Symbolism in High School ELA
My favorite poem is "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child" by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The speaker asks, "Margaret, are you grieving over Goldengrove unleaving?" Few symbols have captured my imagination like the "Goldengrove." Perhaps because of this poem, symbolism is one of my favorite topics. Helping students unpack the meaning of a symbol can help them unpack an entire texts. Symbols are such an important part of our world that analyzing symbolism is a skill that translates far beyond literature.
Coping with Classroom Chaos: Entropy is Not Destiny
The second law of thermodynamics states that systems tend toward entropy or disorder. This also seems to be true of schools: we tend toward entropy. Sometimes teachers begin to feel like they are making a last stand between their classroom and entropy. The second law of thermodynamics also says that some systems exist in an ideal state of equilibrium or are undergoing reversible processes. That means schools and teachers do not have to accept chaos. In the classroom, entropy is not destiny
4 Easy Discussion Strategies for HS ELA
Choosing classroom discussion strategies can be tricky because discussion is a cornerstone of reading literature. Each time students interact with a text, they engage in a conversation that began long before they will born and will continue long after graduation. My favorite discussion strategies engage students across the board. Students make unique (and sometimes unexpected) contributions during classroom discussion. For this reason, teachers have to carefully choose discussion strategies
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Jeopardy Templates are here! New and improved!
Includes: • 5 Templates with 6 versions of each that include Google and PowerPoint versions (total of 30 templates) • Directions on how to use and play • Student directions for creating their own Jeopardy games • Jeopardy scoreboard and answer keys • https://bit.ly/2TnBgax