In this article, the nature and extent of the word "gap" are explained, then research on how children learn words during the early years is described. Next, a summary of available interventions are reviewed, and a detail of questions that could use additional study and research are posed.
This Lesson was created to use in conjunction with materials in Clusive [https://clusive.cast.org], a free, online learning environment that makes materials flexible and accessible. The Lesson is designed for students in grades 6-8, and targets ELA standards as well as SEL skills of self-awareness and learner agency. As you use this lesson, students will be guided to recognize, understand, and apply key elements of a mystery story, tools that they can use to build learner agency, self-awareness, and comprehension
What makes a revolution possible? Values, beliefs, grievances, and solutions formed a potent mixture that made the American Revolution happen. In this lesson, students use a variety of materials to learn about the making of the Declaration of Independence. The lesson culminates in students recreating the Declaration in their own words, or making their own personal declaration of independence.This Lesson Plan was created to use in conjunction with materials in Clusive [https://clusive.cast.org], a free, online learning environment that makes materials flexible and accessible.
This Lesson Plan Template was created to use in conjunction with materials in Clusive [https://clusive.cast.org], a free, online learning environment that makes materials flexible and accessible. The Lesson Plan Template is designed for teachers to build lessons for students in grades 4-12.
This Lesson was created to use in conjunction with materials in Clusive [https://clusive.cast.org], a free, online learning environment that makes materials flexible and accessible. The Lesson is designed to engage and support middle school teachers and their students to evaluate Tom Sawyer as one of a long-line of trickster characters in world literature.
Integrated grammar and composition for upper-level ESOL students of writing
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This courses presents grammar and composition skills for upper-level ESOL students using the social justice themes of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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This courses presents grammar and composition skills for upper-level ESOL students using the social justice themes of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The course addresses specifically definition, cause-and-effect, and discussion essays using a paragraph-to-essay writing process.
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This resource reviews the concept of using transitions and basic organizational principles to add cohesion to writing. See also "Cohesion Part II" and Cohesion Part III."
These slides coverMaintaining same tense throughout writingPoint of viewMood and ToneSee also "Cohesion Part I" and "Cohesion Part III."
Warm Up Activities for the Creative Writing Classroom
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This workshop includes historical context, digitized primary sources, and follow-up discussion questions. Students are asked to make arguments for and against providing funding to programs and projects proposed to the Commonwealth Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. Taking on the role of program officers during the Cold War and working in small groups, students will read primary sources and articulate why a foundation should or should not provide funding to these proposed ideas. As a whole group, the studentswill participate in a debate as to which of the proposed ideas would be the most effective tool for furthering American Cold War interests. Students are encouraged to use this workshop as a springboard for further research into the role foundations played during the Cold War.
Students become online authors in this lesson in which they write and post a short story using wiki technology.
Students and the teacher produce a class book through a group-writing activity, focusing on a basic before-during-after sequence of events.
A checklist to be used by elementary students while they work on group projects to make sure they are using good collaboration behaviors.
A rubric in student language used by elementary students to self-assess their collaboration skills.
The work plan outlined here is intended to facilitate a 4-hour session for a collaborative work group of subject matter experts. This group's mission is to develop course learning outcomes that blend collaborators’ course learning outcomes into one set of outcomes. Our objective is to craft a course module template aligned with the new course learning outcomes that is versatile enough to be adopted by multiple institutions across the globe.
Students hone their teamwork skills and play off each other's writing strengths as they participate in prewriting activities for a story to be written collaboratively by the whole class.
Using a collaborative story written by students, the teacher leads a shared-revising activity to help students consider content when revising, with students participating in the marking of text revisions.
Students create visual artwork combining various images to convey diversity or social justice issues, concerns or themes related to the central text.
This is the start of my OER first year college writing textbook with a thematic focus on student organizations.
This resource guide begins by outlining the theory underlying the literacy work and then lays out the framework for the supports included in the Readers series. Subsequent chapters describe and illustrate the specific content literacy and language development strategies that have been chosen as being of particularly high impact. Although most of the strategies can be used in multiple ways, we have chosen to present them as occurring "Before, During and After Reading" because of the importance of this mental model in effective content literacy instruction.