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Grades 9 – 12 | Student Interactive
Resume Generator
This tool guides students through the creation of a resume that can be saved and edited. Written and audio tips provide extra support.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
The Passion of Punctuation
Using published writers’ texts and students’ own writing, this unit explores emotions that are associated with the artful and deliberate use of commas, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points (end-stop marks of punctuation).
Lesson Plans
Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons
It is important for students to know how to evaluate messages conveyed by the news media. Exploration of the artistic techniques used in political cartoons leads to critical questioning.
Student Interactives
The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, flyers, and booklets.
Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With Persepolis
Students get the big picture of the Middle East when they read and analyze Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis.
The Stapleless Book can be used for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating vocabulary booklets . . . the possibilities are endless!
Speaking Poetry: Exploring Sonic Patterns Through Performance
Using their voices as interpretive instruments, students gain a deeper appreciation of the art of poetry as they prepare a recitation of the frequently anthologized poem “Those Winter Sundays.”
Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information.
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
After reading several poems that expand the definition of love poetry, students compose found poems based on a personal memoir—either their own or a love story of another writer.
The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.
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Textmasters: Bringing literature circles to textbook reading across the curriculum
A fifth-grade science teacher and university researcher challenged the notion that textbook reading follows the same archaic formula: read the textbook and answer the questions at the end of the section. Together, they adapted literature circle roles to fit textbook structures, resulting in the strategy they call Textmasters. This article describes the strategy, along with the action research project that proves its efficacy in the content area middle school classroom.
Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students
This book isn’t about technology. It’s about the teaching practices that technology enables. This book addresses the ways in which teachers and students work together to navigate continuous change and what it means to read, write, view, listen, and communicate in the twenty-first century.
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Visible Learning from Visual Learners
John Davis | English Teacher | Lake Wales, FL
This year in my tenth grade English class, I had many students who enjoyed Manga, graphic novels, comic books, or a combination of all three
