A fellow lit coach shared this 1 minute snippet of an idea you might want to use in order to help our students aquire language/vocabulary. Check out the link to access the clip.
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/improving-student-vocabulary?fd=1
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
Podcast: Ellin Keene and Brenda Power
As we have been talking about language acquisition and introducing more vocabulary into our day through word harvests, etc, here is a research driven book sharing some ideas of how this might happen. Click on the book to access a podcast between the author, Ellin Keene, and Brenda Power, the driving source behind "Choice Literacy."
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Choice Literacy: Persuasive Pamphlets
What an interesting way to get our kids excited about writing an opinon piece. Check out Choice Literacy's article on how to create a "persuasive pamphlet."
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