Hey everyone! I am just adding a few of Daniel’s blog posts. Enjoy! 🙂Â
Hi class!
I wanted to share two Learning Guides about The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie.
The first one is a really powerful and complete study guide that is published by the Digital Public Library of America:
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/dpla-tg-080/teaching-guide-exploring-the-absolutely-true-diary-of-a-part-time-indian/#.W0zLwkskq7o
It is full of photos, discussion questions, and teacher resources. It is wonderfully complete and a great document.
The second is a publisher-produced, slightly more condensed guide, put out by Scholastic:
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plans/teaching-content/absolutely-true-diary-part-time-indian-storia-teaching-guide/
There are four reproducible materials and some links.
Enjoy!
Daniel
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Hi class!
I thought I would share the following three resources about Found Poetry. I find (pun intended!) that such poems are really great ways to include the class involved into building their own poems and looking at text that they come across in their daily lives.
The first resources is about how to create a found poem:
https://www.commonsense.org/education/lesson-plans/lets-create-a-found-poem
It’s very simple and to the point.
The second is historically-based, and has all kinds of connected resources, a rationale, and background activities:
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/found-poems
Finally, the Read-Write-Think website has an instructional plan, related resources, and space for comments:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/found-poems-parallel-poems-33.html
Hope you like these!
Cheers,
Daniel
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Hi everyone!
In light of our discussion today on children’s books, I thought I would include the following resources, on visual literacy. These are really helpful for all levels, from primary to secondary.
The first resource is from a site called Teach Primary:
https://www.teachprimary.com/learning_resources/view/lesson-plans-for-visual-literacy
I liked this resource because it really showed me how to work with little kids, who are really not my speciality:
https://www.teachprimary.com/learning_resources/view/lesson-plans-for-visual-literacy
The second resource is from a site called Reading Recovery. This is a PDF of a PowerPoint, that gives you background, and a couple of examples of student writing, too:
https://readingrecovery.org/images/pdfs/Conferences/NC09/Handouts/Carry_Visual_Literacy.pdf
I like the last resource the most, because of the kids’ examples that are included.
Cheers,
Daniel