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“If they respect you, respect them. If they disrespect you, still respect them. Do not allow the actions of others to decrease your good manners, because you represent yourself, not others.”

Mohammad Zeyara (via larmoyante)

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Such an important post in light of the discussions we have in LLED about the adoption of the Common Core standards and their origin.

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Why English is Hard to Learn

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Here are the charts you developed during the curriculum carousel activity on 12. 3. This might be helpful in describing your curriculum ideas for your pen pals.

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We spend a tremendous amount of time thinking about children's out-of-school lives. Teachers (that's YOU) have out-of-school lives, too. And we bring those lives into our classrooms in the ways we interact with our children.

There is much here about what love looks like in our interactions with our students. There is much, too, about a pedagogy of kindness and of trusting others so that we might let our guards down - not to burden others with the things in our lives, but to humanize classroom encounters. This is about much more than curriculum - it's about living together in meaningful and productive ways.

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Standard Miscue Marks

(use for miscue analysis - analyze child’s reading from recording)

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The reading passage starts: ‘Dear New York State, I am not fond of your tests. They do not show you who I am, or who my teachers are….’

Here is the article I mentioned in class about how the Common Core Standards and the "lexile" system have upended the idea of text complexity.

Notice on the graph above that *Mr. Popper's Penguins* is, according to this system, more complex than *The Grapes of Wrath* and *The Sun Also Rises.*

LOL.

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We've talked quite a bit about sight words this semester, but how do you know what sight words kids should "know"? Back in the day, 1948 according to this website, Edward Dolch identified 220 words that children should know in order to read fluently. Most of these words cannot be sounded out, hence the reason they are called "sight words".

This website has the Dolch sight word lists by grade level and a separate list for nouns. This might be a helpful resource in terms of thinking about compiling word walls in your classroom and helping students with what you might perceive to be spelling issues.

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Podcasts are a popular form of audio blog that range from various talk formats to radio-style formats. You can easily create your own podcast anytime with the Mac software GarageBand. With this software, you can record your own audio, add new audio tracks and add photos to accompany the podcast. Once you're finished recording, you can transfer all...

This site might be helpful in thinking about how to integrate podcasts into your reading/writing curriculum.

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A tremendously important read [I think, anyway] about caring for children, teaching what and how you know you should teach, advocating for yourself, and standing firm in your philosophies amidst "new reform movements."

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Instead of being an add-on, aesthetic response is believed by the teacher to be the 'primary form of experience on which all cognition, judgment, and action depend. It is the fundamental and distinctive power of image making by the imagination. It furnishes the raw material for concepts and ideals.' (Broudy, 1979, pp. 63-64)...if we dampen such use of the imagination, intelligence itself is deflated.

McClure & Zillow, pp. 28-29

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Mrs. Noonan and her student work together during a writing conference. Notice how she listens closely and how her praise and feedback is direct and specific.

[More videos from this series available at teachingchannel.org]

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...finding ample time for writing means rethinking the way language arts has been taught in the past. Namely, it means no longer devoting the bulk of that time to teaching isolated skill lessons. If I wanted my kids to carry over these skills - which of course is the entire reason for teaching skills in the first place - I needed to embed them in the ongoing life of the workshop.

Fletcher & Portalupi, p. 88

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'Teach the writer,' Lucy Calkins has written, 'not the writing.' The idea is to add to the young writer's repertoire of strategies - not merely to improve a particular piece of writing, but to improve all of the writing that student will do."

Fletcher & Portalupi, p. 52

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The writing conference lets you engage in the teaching dynamic that most of us wanted when we entered this profession - a unique one-on-one interaction between you and a student.

Fletcher & Portalupi, p. 48

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