Jennifer Diaz's List: Curriculum Resources

• These 13-teacher and expert-tested strategies will strengthen your students' ability to find and use evidence from any text
• Texts that inspire questions encourage students to return to the text and find support for their answers
• starting with one overarching focus question
• Require students to have evidence ready at the start of the discussion
• "prove it"
• evidence will actually open up a text to different interpretations
• The challenge is getting students to expand and explain. To get students to explain why they choose a piece of evidence, provide them with a structure that moves from evidence to interpretation. Williams' students use a graphic organizer with three columns: They write their answer in the first column, note textual evidence in the second, and explain their evidence in the third.

  • I want to do this!
• Use sentence starters strategically
• In the text ... the author mentions ...
• the author uses this evidence to ... this lets us know that ...
• Give students enough time to flip through and find just the right piece of evidence. If other students are getting antsy, choose one of your always-ready students to share, then loop back to the student who needed time with the text

  • Good idea to keep the pace moving, while providing enough time to find better evidence.
• "Just because there's more than one right answer," says Riley, "doesn't mean there's no wrong answer."
• go back to the text
• According to page
• Listen for how students personalize the discussion, and encourage them to develop their own voice.
• create an anchor chart

  • Create and authentic anchor chart of student/teacher generated starters and prompts.
• They answer the focus question a second time, explain whether or not they changed their answers, and reflect on how the evidence brought up during discussion impacted their thinking.

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• • This means that when you are leaving someone because you deserve better, you have to tell them why you are going.
• dissolve
• one people
• political bands
• Course
• human events
• assume
• separate and equal
• another
• powers of the earth
• Laws of Nature
• entitle
• decent respect
• opinions of mankind
• station
• Nature's God
• requires
• impel them to
• causes
• separation
• declare

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• The American Revolution gave birth to a new country, but now, more than 200 years later, so many stories of this incredible time in history are yet untold. Most of us know about Paul Revere, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and perhaps even Molly Pitcher, but what of the smaller, yet equally important roles played by American Patriots?

• picture books about the American Revolution

• Personal Interviews

   

  Personal interviews refer to those interviews that you conduct yourself. List the interview by the name of the interviewee. Include the descriptor Personal interview and the date of the interview.

   

   

  Purdue, Pete. Personal interview. 1 Dec. 2000.

• • I want to use this next year!

• All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Although the Internet can be a tremendous resource for gathering information about a topic, we found that students often did not have the skills to discern useful information from worthless data.

   

  So we set out to develop a series of lessons for elementary age students in which we would demonstrate that just because it is out there for the searching does not mean it is worthwhile.
• Because we wanted to make a point about finding useless information even in a site which looked at first to be fairly well put together, all of the Explorer biographies here are fictional.

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