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Application of Common Core State Standards comparing observations, characters and closing arguments from two trials using non-fictional accounts dealing with the Scottsboro Boys trials of 1931 and 1933 and the fictional trial narrative in To Kill a Mockingbird. 
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Innovative teachers are using eBooks as projects, allowing students to gain Common Core skills while letting their creativity to shine.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
A good summary of how to jump into ebook creation, with links to lots of great resources.
Jacqueline Weber's curator insight,
December 2, 2014 1:26 PM
I would like help teachers utilize this with their students 
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April 23, 2017 2:21 PM
You will be creating your own informational eBook about the Harlem Renaissance. These resources will help us understand how to begin creating eBooks.
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Educators are responding to the close reading mandate with strategies that help students better understand complex texts. Our resource roundup has the links.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Loads of resources here to share with teachers!
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NowComment is fast, powerful, and feature-rich: you can sort comments, skim summaries, create assignments, hide comments, reply privately, and much more. Via Nik Peachey
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
While much of this can be done in Google docs, there are several features which can extend the conversation. Teachers do need to share documents via email.
Mika Auramo's curator insight,
April 3, 2014 2:23 PM
Vaikuttaa lupaavalta vuorovaikutteiselta työkalulta yhteistoiminnalliseen oppimiseen. 
CECI Jean-François's curator insight,
February 16, 2015 2:20 AM
Intéressant outil pour faire du commentaire social (débat électronique) sur un document, avec des possibilités de tri et de tracking ... Parfait pour l'hybridation de cours 
Murielle Godement's curator insight,
February 16, 2015 2:52 AM
Le pendant de VoiceThread à l'écrit. NowComment permet de commenter / débattre par écrit sur des documents du web en mode privé ou public. Le mode public ne propose pas de filtre de langue, difficile donc pour le moment de proposer des activités FLE de contributions à des débtas ouverts essentiellement en anglais.
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Do you wish your students could better understand and critique the images that saturate their waking life? That's the purpose of visual literacy (VL), to explicitly teach a collection of competencies
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
This is what I was aiming at with my lesson plan for using primary source images. Here's a link to that lesson. You'd need to log in to see the Common Core Standards it addresses, as well as the graphic organizers and rubrics: http://aasl.jesandco.org/content/picturing-historyanalyzing-and-researching-primary-source-images
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"Like thinking, reading in the 21st century is different than in centuries past, endlessly linked in an increasingly visible web of physical and digital media forms. So in this context of media abundance, what does the modern, 21st century look like? How can we appeal to their interests?"
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
So much to ponder here! Ignore Terry's advice about skipping to the bottom of the article for the strategies, and take the time to read the article itself. And the strategies are great--what I'm thinking of when I envision Common Core-aligned assignments!
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What’s In a Word? On Vocabulary Instruction by Kathleen Stern As a middle school reading teacher, I constantly find myself thinking, “If my students knew the meaning of more words, they would be be...
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Concrete examples for middle school teachers.
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Explore math and ELA video lessons and resources for grades 2-12. Search by Common Core domain, topic, or grade. Includes Additional Practice and Director's Commentary videos.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
There are so many great lessons here. I'd be bored as a student if a teacher relied too heavily on these, but could see a teacher embedding these on her website for students to review or to cover material they may have missed in class, or haven't mastered.
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Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
This is also a great strategy to use with ELL students.
Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight,
January 27, 2014 1:05 PM
Great strategy to use with ELL students, too! 
Mark Gillingham's curator insight,
January 29, 2014 5:30 PM
Tap into more skills that students already have through collaboration and mixed media.
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The ‘jobs’ that drive the literature circle have not changed much over the years, but the means of accomplishing those jobs has. I sat in on Tiffani Brown’s presentation on Literature Circles at the CUE Conference. She has infused different web-based applications into the jobs, making them more fun and engaging for the students. Here are some of her suggestions:
Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight,
January 22, 2014 12:11 PM
Simple ways to update your lit circles. 
Dr. Angela C Gordon's curator insight,
January 24, 2014 2:35 PM
Infusing technology into Lit Circles!
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"Being good at asking questions is the art of identifying those gaps, sorting them, and figuring out how to fill them. Considered that way, it is a strange skill: “the ability to organize your thinking around something you know nothing about,” said Rothstein." Via Beth Dichter, KarMa_C4
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
A great summary of why questioning still matters. We've been talking about metacognition a lot this year in the library. Learning how to develop questions is a large part of learning how you learn and think.
Begoña Iturgaitz's curator insight,
September 29, 2013 5:45 PM
Still thinking about a MUST at any classroom? 
Patrice Bucci's curator insight,
September 29, 2013 7:00 PM
So true... I cringe when I am in classrooms with the packaged program "essential question" of the week on the board...and very often those "essential questions" lack cognitive clarity for the students 
Stacey Jackowski's curator insight,
February 19, 2014 8:20 PM
This quote is so true. Learning how to ask essential questions is a skill that we can carry with us for the rest of our lives and facilitates a lifetime of learning.
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Many school districts are going through a painstaking process of writing new curricula to meet the Common Core State Standards. One of the biggest changes for English language arts teachers working to refine and update curricula is the need to incorporate larger amounts of nonfiction texts. As ELA teachers, we are experts in teaching literature — but nonfiction? Having recently gone through the process of writing a new middle-school ELA curriculum, I fully understand this challenge. Below are some of the ways our middle school ELA teachers worked to more organically integrate nonfiction texts into our teaching. Via Deb Gardner
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Great examples of how to painlessly add informational text to your teaching.
Deb Gardner's curator insight,
January 8, 2014 6:10 AM
Keep in mind the expectation to increase non-fiction texts (and more complex texts) is not only in the ELA class, but other subjects as well.
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A fond childhood memory of mine was going to the library once a week to check out some of my favorite types of books - the Choose Your Own Adventure series. They were created by Edward Packard and ...
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
I think creating these stories would help students identify the main idea of a story and understand the importance of plot, all while having a great deal of fun. Win for everyone!
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"The sum of our advice: Give teachers time to plan and talk together. Build local networks within schools and districts to create a curriculum that engages both adults and students as learners. Think creatively. Map classroom activities back to the standards. Use a range of texts to juxtapose student thinking on content."
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Finding ways to use the CCSS to engage students is my focus and this article does a good job highlighting some strategies to do that.
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Lindsey Fuller writes: "I have cross-referenced my technology lessons with the ELA CCSS for 6th grade. Although these are grade specific, the standards follow a continuum that should allow for easy adaptation to other grade levels. (Science and Social Studies alignments coming soon!)"
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
This is a great site to share with teachers who might still be hyperventilating about how to "do" Common Core. Lindsey has generously shared her lessons, so teachers can see how to take what they already teach, and adapt to the Common Core. Lots of good stuff on her site, so be sure to explore!
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Sets of primary sources on baseball, Jamestown, Jim Crow laws, the Civil War, immigration, Spanish exploration, and the Dust Bowl from the Library of Congress including photos, maps, manuscripts, audio files, films, sheet music, and cartoons.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
So many great primary source sets here! I already saw 5 that my 8th grade ELA and history teachers could use.
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Teachers frustrated by Common Core directions to ignore prior knowledge when teaching text analysis can show students how to do it themselves, says Laura Robb.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
If nothing else, modeling this may help students who are frustrated by reading material they don't understand.
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In an earlier post, I wrote about both the Common Core Standards and what I call the "common sense" standards. Teaching ethical academic behavior online seems to hit both. When I talk about ethical academic behavior, I'm not talking about manners so much as giving credit where credit is due. After all, just because the kids can access information within two clicks doesn't give them the right to claim information as their own.
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Once again, Heather shares a lesson that would be easy to implement and should have a lasting impact on students.
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For a coming student contest in which teenagers are invited to write on an issue they care about, we have gathered a list of 200 writing prompts on a wide range of issues.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
I love these prompts! Plenty of topics to grab a student's interest.
Cathy Sullivan's curator insight,
July 17, 2014 3:10 PM
This looks promising! Issues to ponder that fuel the fire to write.
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When I was a student, nothing helped me become more skilled at writing history than learning about journalism -- news reporting, in particular. I don't mean to undervalue my fabulous teachers in high
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
This lesson would work well in MS/HS classes.
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"News literacy education has the potential to engage students and ignite their critical thinking. More importantly, it can empower them to make better-informed choices in their lives as they move beyond the classroom and into the world."
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Easy to implement examples that support Common Core (and don't require any of those dreary "Commn Core-aligned" materials that too many school districts are buying!)
Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight,
February 4, 2014 6:18 PM
Easy to implement examples that support critical thinking and media literacy, both essential in the Common Core (and life!)
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"If there is just one message I could share with parents, educators, and managers, it would be about the transformative power of interest."
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How would you use this information to transform your teaching?
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Teaching students how to think and analyze are important goals of today's teacher. See how one high school teacher uses a two day lesson to get students to analyze texts and develop more critical ways of thinking.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
This video would be great for professional development. It's short enough to share during an hour long PD session, leaving time to discuss and create ideas for implementing in the classroom.
Dr. Dea Conrad-Curry's curator insight,
January 9, 2014 9:55 AM
So many good videos on this website. This lesson reminded me of one I typcially taught as my students moved into analytic literary research. Like Wessling, I would work with students to generate a list of all the aspects within a piece of literature that one could analyze throughout the text. And the, I would ask them to choose two or three and explore not only how they found the aspects interacting, but what literary critics before them said about the text's development in those areas. 
Nalya Ovshieva's curator insight,
October 25, 2014 4:48 PM
A great way of thinking - looking for concrete and conceptual patterns, and then draw conclusions..
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Close reading is one of the buzz words that is being emphasized with the Common Core Learning Standards. By close reading I am interpreting as the reading, rereading, and analysis of text for the p... Via Dr. Dea Conrad-Curry
Dr. Dea Conrad-Curry's curator insight,
January 6, 2014 6:56 PM
I am a longtime fan of Kylene Beers and Bob Probst. This blog gives a quick rundown of the basic tenets of their highly popular book, Notice and Note and shares an instructional activity. You'll want to go out and buy the book!
Dr. Angela C Gordon's curator insight,
January 24, 2014 2:40 PM
Close reading using Six Signposts! Great strategy!! 
Linda Burke Dooling's curator insight,
January 26, 2014 4:27 PM
Students need to develop the skills to notice/note what is important -- in literature and in non-fiction -- by themselves. This is a tool that can help learn how to do this and also to practice doing it.
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In today's post I'm sharing information I gave to my students about the differences between summarizing and synthesizing information in terms of reading strategies and research.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
I think this is a key Common Core shift that needs to be modeled for students. This article gives a straight forward summary.
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Great lesson here, and an opportunity for collaboration between language arts and history classes.