In Defense of the Five-Paragraph Essay
By Rita Platt I believe in the good old fashioned 5 paragraph essay for teaching elementary school students. There. I said it. It may not […]
Read more ›By Rita Platt I believe in the good old fashioned 5 paragraph essay for teaching elementary school students. There. I said it. It may not […]
Read more ›“Students today depend on paper too much. They don’t know how to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves. They can’t […]
Read more ›Once, when I was doing my student teaching, I created a test for a “Business Communications” unit. Now you have to understand that this was […]
Read more ›By: Amy Klein See below: a bar code, a UPC symbol and the relatively new invention, a QR code. Ubiquitous on packaging, advertising, personal ID […]
Read more ›By Rita Platt & John Wolfe The amazing processes of reading comprehension may never be as invisible as when students first start reading informational texts. […]
Read more ›Teaching Writing From 30,000 Feet Good writing is good thinking. Well written is well thought out–which is to say that it’s well planned, well organized, […]
Read more ›An Annotation by Jeff Ayer Poling, who is an administrator in Maryland, looks at the span of uses that blogs can have in a school […]
Read more ›An Annotation by Jeff Ayer Nelson and Feinstein focus on “Netspeak,” which they define as “a blend of speech and writing” (1). Their greatest point, […]
Read more ›An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer Lankshear and Knobel elaborately outline: the history of blogging, the anatomy of a weblog, a detailed step-by-step process of how […]
Read more ›An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer This article really was by Emily Van Noy, the teacher who employed blogging in her classroom, and Kajder and Bull […]
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