Jody Oliver's List: Courses: ELA, Writing

"Whether you teach elementary, middle, or high school, a common challenge exists: finding non-fiction content at reading level. This is an especially pressing concern for teachers incorporating the CCSS Standards into their curricula. "

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"All writing starts with an idea which is then expanded and elaborated, but coming up with ideas to write about is not always easy particularly when you have to teach different classes. This is where digital writing prompts come in handy.These are web tools that you can use to generate ideas and story starters for students to write about."

"If “children grow into the intellectual life around them” (Vygotsky, 1978, p.88), then what kind of intellectual life are we presenting to the students in our classrooms? Teachers all over the world have had to accept the compromise of focusing more on delivering the prescribed curriculum than developing understanding; test-taking rather than learning. We have what the authors of Making Thinking Visible describe as “a distorted view of teaching that is self-reinforcing and divorced from what we know about effective learning”(Ritchhart, Church, & Morrison, 2011, p.25). "

"We know teachers work incredibly hard to meet the needs of their students and we want to help. With Storyboard That we offer three kinds of teacher resources which are common core aligned to help you get the most out of Storyboard That."

Great site for writing skills

Great video

Presentation in our county.

For the Great Works of World Literature
Including Guides for All the Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare
Tutorials With Plot Summaries, Themes, Imagery, Analysis, and Background Information

Summarizing information is an important postreading and prewriting activity that helps students synthesize what they have learned. The interactive Cube Creator offers four options:

Here at ReadWriteThink, our mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.

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This is the Six Sounds in Search of an Author Project. The goals of this project is to teach students and educators how to create and mix audio for a podcast, as well as demonstrate how this technical skill can help students develop important 21st-century skills.  It's a project I've done in classes from 3rd grade to graduate school and as an educational promotion for ISTE and NJAET.