Weekly Web Wanderings (weekly)
Posted by: linda704 on: February 18, 2012
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65 Free Interactive Whiteboard Resources | TeachHUB
“Here is a list of 65 interactive whiteboard resources and activities guaranteed to stimulate learning:”
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Interactive Stations: Increase Engagement and Understanding < Teaching Channel
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Dropbox – Using Process Drama-Tableau.docx – Simplify your life
By freezing the action in a piece of literature, it is possible to isolate any number of literary components: character, conflict, denouement, writer style. These “frozen portraits” provide an opportunity for students to investigate that component more thoroughly.
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Dropbox – Wall of Silence.docx – Simplify your life
This discussion strategy uses writing and silence as tools to help students explore a topic in-depth. Having a written conversation with peers slows down students’ thinking process and gives them an opportunity to focus on the views of others. This strategy also creates a visual record of students’ thoughts and questions that can be referred to later in a class. Using the Chalk Talk strategy can help engage shy students who are not as likely to participate in a verbal discussion. After using this strategy several times, students’ comfort, confidence, and skill with this method increases.
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Dropbox – MCPS Instructional Strategies for 21st Century List.pdf – Simplify your life
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“Part of the reason my students have such a hard time reading is because they bring little prior knowledge and background to the written page. They can decode the words, but the words remain meaningless without a foundation of knowledge.
To help build my students’ prior knowledge, I assign them an “Article of the Week” every Monday morning. By the end of the school year I want them to have read 35 to 40 articles about what is going on in the world. It is not enough to simply teach my students to recognize theme in a given novel; if my students are to become literate, they must broaden their reading experiences into real-world text.”
Includes links to articles used as well as articles used in previous years.
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A plethora of before, during, and after reading, hands-on activities.
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