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Session Four. Language Arts & Social Studies. If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. -Africa American Proverb. Share the strategies you applied in your classrooms with your table. Interactive Math Journaling. Today we will… .
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Session Four Language Arts & Social Studies
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. -Africa American Proverb
Share the strategies you applied in your classrooms with your table. Interactive Math Journaling
Today we will… Integrating Technology Ideas and Links Language Arts- strategies Talking Chips Gallery Walk Social Studies Writing to Learn Writing to Demonstrate Knowledge Make a Plan to Try it and Apply it!
Integration of Technology Writing Across the CurriculumIdeas and Links
Ideas & Content for idea development for kid centered activities PowerPoint Silent Timer for Brainstorming or 3-minute fast write, etc. Harcourt’s offers some great ideas--check this one out!
Organization …Organizational ideas: purposeful paragraphs, etc. On-line Essay Mapping one click stop for graphic organizers Story Mapping Assistance On-Line
Word Choice Word Choice at the Text Analyzer Feature Word Choice at the Online Writing Lab Free On-line Thesaurus, Think-Map Visual
Voice Voice Section: Use Great Speeches:History Channel Great Speeches link Use (it is free for Mac and Win) Sound Companion, etc. to read your writing into the computer and “play it back” listen for your voice.
Sentence Fluency Sentence Fluency at Sentence Fluency at the Online Writing Lab
Conventions Conventions: Free Rubric Creator: Teachers select from a wide variety of options to create a customized rubric for any writing project. Project Based Learning: Create printable checklists customized for any writing project.
Strategies for Language Arts Writing to Learn Strategies STRATEGY: Anticipation Guides STRATEGY: Before, During, and After Interactive Notes STRATEGY: Column Notes T-chart Fact or opinion Chapters/Selection Chart Q-Notes
Strategies for Language Arts STRATEGY: Concept/Vocabulary Expansion Define Conceptual Terms Descriptions for Different Purposes Possible Sentences LINK: List-Inquire-Note-Know STRATEGY: Compare/Contrast Compare and Contrast Organizers Venn Diagram Metaphorical Thinking
STRATEGY: Credibility of a Source STRATEGY: FQIP: Focus, Questions, Image, Predict STRATEGY: Inquiry Charts I Charts KWLH Inquiry STRATEGY: CRAFTS: Context, Role, Audience, Format, Topic, and Strong Verb STRATEGY: Consolidating Thought Summarizing Synthesizing Inferring Discussion Web Strategies for Language Arts
STRATEGY: Main Idea Main Idea and Supporting Details Graphic Organizer Spider Map Cerebral Chart STRATEGY: Idea Funnel STRATEGY: Journaling Dialectical Journal Double Entry Journal/ Learning Log Meta-Cognitive/Reflective Journal Synthesis Journal Strategies for Language Arts
STRATEGY: Predict-O-Gram Writing STRATEGY: Understanding Story Writing from the narrative frame Narrative organizer: Story Map Linear Array Story Organizer STRATEGY: Previewing and Generating Text Purposes Previewing Text Inform-Entertain-Persuade Checking out the Framework SOAPS (Subject, Occasion-Audience-Purpose-Speaker) Strategies for Language Arts
STRATEGY: Visualizing and Recording Mental Images STRATEGY: Write-Pair-Share-Write STRATEGY: Cause-Effect Cause and Effect organizer(s) Fishbone map Strategies for Language Arts
Try it and Apply it! • Adopt practices of Highly Effective Teachers • Engage in professional conversation with your colleagues about effective writing practices. • Read books and journal articles about writing and teaching. • Demonstrate writing by thinking aloud and writing in front of your students • Share with students the writing you do outside school: ask them to do the same. • Examine and evaluate student writing samples at your grade level meeting. • Observe other teachers’ writing classrooms, at your grade level and across grade levels. • Conference with students about their writing.