These strategies help middle school students improve their critical thinking, in turn encouraging them to take the initiative in their learning.
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Recent discussions occurring online, in journals, and at conferences are creating uncertainties about what phonological awareness instruction will be most effective with which children. This guide addresses some of these questions by using what we currently know from the scientific research, from teacher experiences, and from observations in clinical teaching environments for children who struggle with reading.
The outline of the resource includes:
Section 1. Reading Research, Instructional Practice, and Phoneme Awareness
1.1 When should reading research influence instructional practices?
1.2 What is Phonological Awareness? Why is it Important?
Section 2. The Who, When, What, and How of Teaching Phonemic Awareness
2.1 Who needs to be taught phoneme awareness?
2.2 When should phonological awareness instruction begin?
2.3 What phonemic awareness skills should be taught?
2.4 How should phonological awareness instruction begin?
2.5 How much phonological awareness time should involve phonemic awareness activities?
2.6 Is there any value in beginning phonological awareness instruction with larger units, such
as syllables?
2.7 Do onset-rime activities have a role in early phonemic awareness instruction?
2.8 What are manipulatives and how can I use them when teaching phoneme awareness?
2.9 Is it important to teach phoneme awareness with tasks like phoneme deletion and
substitution?
Using sound chains to teach phoneme awareness
" Translate the current research on reading into classroom practices that teachers can deploy tomorrow. We know that reading is an active process that is impacted by the text, task, and sociocultural context in which the reading occurs."
These tools can be used in SK in Social Studies and Language classes from grades 6 to 9.
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-Us vs. Them - Creating the "Other"
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-Maps
-Analysis Sheets
-History of Holocaust
-History of Antisemitism
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This article examines 7 effective reading strategies that should be taught explicitly.
This handbook includes the following projects: Marshmallow Structure Challenge, Magniformers Activity, Cup Stacking Activity, Bridge Building, Tin Foil Boat Challenge, Ferris Wheel Challenge.
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Ted Talk Assignment for Grades 6-9. Practice with viewing media for information.
Ted Talk Assignment
Telescopic Text allows you to unfold words and phrases to reveal more details.
Introduce the story by discussing the idea of the mystery of the human brain and how fear operates in our brain. Ask students questions regarding the absence or presence of fear in people, and what this means in terms of how people can act in our society. Upon reading to and/or listening to the short story “The Tell Tale Heart”, discuss any connections between the character who murders the Old Man and the character in the YouTube video? Further discuss what makes a killer?
Writers and film buffs alike will sharpen their skills in this multimedia unit as they work together to author and design a digital video.
Students tell their life stories in this lesson about autobiographies based on family photographs.
The Folger Shakespeare Library provides the full searchable text of "The Tempest" to read online or download as a PDF. All of the lines are numbered sequentially to make it easier and more convenient to find any line.
Students use both analytical and creative skills to adapt passages from a novel with significant internal dialogue and conflict, such as Toni Morrison's "Beloved", into a ten-minute play.
These graphic organizers and use of text features will help students understand non-fiction.
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The importance of reading aloud to children is an established tenet of reading instruction. This lesson supports the language development and reading comprehension of kindergarten through second graders. Through the use of the text talk strategy, students explain, develop, and expand story ideas. This lesson is designed to help students learn how to gain meaning from words that are taken out of their original context.
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A suite of resources, including videos, a teachers guide and lessons plans developed by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association to engage young people in discussions about the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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