5 Technology Tools To Measure Text Complexity by Kellie Ady, District Instructional Technology Coordinator, Cherry Creek Schools I posted some time ago about finding accessible online text, but a recent blog post from Eye on Education (“How to Select Complex Text to Increase Rigor”) made me think about revisiting the topic. My original post was more about…
In the 21st century, new literacies are emerging and digital media forms allow communication to be more nuanced than ever before.
Digital natives are different. (Well, I guess that depends on who you ask.) But even if we ditch the term digital natives and simply talk about students here and now in the 21st century, there are some things they–well, it’s not so much that they demand it, but–you’ll see. It’s really adorable. And she has a…
It’d be easy to think of the Library of Congress as a stodgy old place full of dusty and antiquated resources. That perception would be wrong. The Library of Congress adds about 10,000 items to its collections every day, and has over 150 million resources overall. Among the resources? Sheet Music Maps Lesson Plans Manuscripts…
Labeling a book “great” is definitely a matter of opinion, but when you pile together the opinion of 13 other book-loving folks, you start to get somewhere close to credibility. Alistofbooks.com went through the trouble of compiling 13 lists of the greatest books ever published using contributions from individuals and organizations ranging from The Harvard…
Notetaking In The Digital Classroom: A Blended Learning Approach Note-taking is part-and-parcel to the academic learning experience. Often during lecture, but also experiments, interviews, and field research, understanding what’s important and recording it for future reference is central to the learning process–curation before we called it that. (You can see Darmouth’s resources for notetaking here.)…
Literacy-rich environments have a significant impact on what goes on in the classroom and set the stage for interactions with genres.
The shift to digital instruction, preparations for state online assessment, and a new crop of writing apps is adding energy to ELA.
In this post, Marzano laid out a 6-step process for building academic vocabulary, including direct instruction and playing with words.
What Are The Characteristics Of Effective Vocabulary Instruction? by Kimberly Tyson, Ph. D. of learningunlimitedllc.com We know that there is a strong relationship between vocabulary and reading comprehension. Systematic vocabulary instruction is an integral part of a K-12 comprehensive literacy framework for instruction. I consider it a privilege to have supported many teachers, coaches, & administrators…
Have you ever wondered what English sounds like to a non-English speaker? This video gives an interesting example.
The teaching of reading and writing has long been viewed as the “job” of English teachers, though success across content areas depends heavily on reading and writing fluency. One of the stronger messages of the K-12 Common Core academic standards is that the “burden” of literacy should be spread across content areas–that teaching reading and…
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