Students explore the menu genre by analyzing existing menus from local restaurants. They review adjectives and descriptive writing and then work in groups to create their own custom menus.
Coordinating conjunctions connect parts of sentences to each other. David explains how.
A checklist used by teachers to assess how elementary students cope with complex, open-ended problems.
A checklist used by teachers to assess high school students’ ability to cope with complex problems and open-ended tasks.
A rubric in student language used by elementary students to assess how they cope with complex problems.
This lesson takes advantage of students' interest in music and audio sharing. Students investigate multiple perspectives in the music downloading debate and develop a persuasive argument for a classroom debate.
Students investigate how and why copyright law has changed over time, and apply this information to recent copyright issues, creating persuasive arguments based on the perspective of a particular group.
The editors of Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom bring together stories, theories, and research that can further inform the ways in which we situate and address intellectual property issues in our writing classrooms. The essays in the collection identify and describe a wide range of pedagogical strategies, consider theories, present research, explore approaches, and offer both cautionary tales and local and contextual successes that can further inform the ways in which we situate and address intellectual property issues in our teaching.
In this lesson Students use the Cornell notes tool (developed by Walter Pauk from Cornell University) to do close reading of informational text. Students will be able to read closely and analyze the key details of what they read. Students will be able to summarize informational text.
Correlative conjunctions work in pairs to connect parts of sentences. David teaches you how they do it!
Students will eat up this lesson about oranges as they practice the skills that help them investigate and make detailed observations for descriptive purposes.
Sentence segmentation, or counting words in a sentence, is the first step in phonological awareness. Students need to have an understanding that words are made up of letters and sentences are made up of words. This basic skill will help them later with both reading and writing.Objective: I can break and count words in a sentence.Time required: 20 minutes or lesson can be chunked into managable size bits for your students.
Within this collection you will find lessons and handouts you can use in your classroom. You will also find a brief summary of each resource with the source sited for further exploration, appropriate grade level, approximate lesson length, and learning standards.
VTT-Box, Pilot course produced by Colegio Internacional Costa Adeje in the framework of the VTT-Box Project, https://www.vtt-box.eu/project/the-products/pilot-courses/
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This course guides students to improve the vocabulary related to social issues through songs, brainstorms, reading and reflecting on articles and writing and sharing compositions.
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The pilot courses are a set of tested and well-created Open Online Distance Learning courses based on open, online, flexible and technology enhanced education (OOFAT). These courses are an innovation in Open Online Distance Learning.
Course created by Lola Mateos Peñas
Course information and map for first-year, in-person, 10-week class on public speaking and communication skills in delivering speeches and presentations. Includes learning objectives, assignments, readings, and other resources.
Course map for class that teaches first-year students core rhetorical concepts (ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos) by analyzing Taylor Swift’s songs, videos, interviews, and social media posts. Includes learning objectives, assignments, formative feedback, activities, and readings or other resources for a 10-week course and final project.
This course shell, available in Canvas, is designed to instruct current or aspiring writing tutors on the theory and practice of peer-tutoring. The course includes a link to an open access Tutor Handbook, readings in theory and practice, and assignments that simulate peer tutoring sessions.
Students compare and analyze novels and the movies adapted from them. They design new DVD covers and a related insert for the movies, reflecting their response to the movie version.
What do cowboy hats have to do with fairy tales? Two traditional fairy tales and their Texas-based counterparts set the stage for five different ways to respond to text.
This OER textbook has been developed to support English Composition courses at rural Arizona community colleges. It includes content to help students develop and assemble academic essays.