Constant Reader Learning Materials
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"Constant Reader Learning Materials" is really a teacher and professor hiding in the background avoiding the policies that says he can't write curriculum for others or sell his work. Professor Constant Reader earned a position as an expert in Common Core from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has created curriculum for himself and his classroom, for other schools and educators, for publication, college courses, and home school.
His publishing credits include more than 40 online courses for a major university, 55 online textbooks, a guide to writing, a novel, four travel guides, and numerous chapters, stories, poems, and essays.
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An Introductory Primer to Creative Nonfiction
An Introductory Primer to Creative Nonfiction: Jumpstart your Memoir, Personal Essay, Travel Writing, and Other Nonfiction GenresThis compact and easily accessible 44-page primer helps to introduce the art of creative nonfiction to students in 6th to 12th grade. The work includes seven "Keys to Success" to help guide students as they explore this form of writing. Six reproducible "Exercises" can be done in class or independently to assist with getting the students' minds focused on specific wr
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Creative Writing, Writing, Writing-Expository
CCSS, TEKS
CCRA.W.1
, CCRA.W.2
, CCRA.W.3
+12
Yearbook Assignment Checklist, Instructions, and Teacher Primer
This 9-page document includes 5 pages of information, directions, and instructions for faculty, advisors, staff, and editors, followed by a 1-page assignment sheet, and a 3-page checklist to ensure that the best material is gathered and created for each yearbook assignment. Creating page assignments for yearbook students, staff, and editors can be fraught with problems. You have to give them enough information to complete the assignment, after all, it's very frustrating to send students out to
PreK - 12th, Higher Education
Graphic Arts, Writing
Coordinating Conjunctions: FANBOYS PowerPoint and PDF
2-page short lesson (plus cover and Common Core standards) explains in a brief and compact manner the concept of creating a compound sentence by using the FANBOYS plus the semicolon.
The explanation is provided on a PowerPoint slide followed by an opportunity for students to create their own sentences using the coordinating conjunctions.
Utilize the PowerPoint to show the students how to use the coordinating conjunction and then either print out the blank student resource or use the PPT to add
5th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Grammar, Informational Text, Other (ELA)
CCSS
L.5.3
, L.5.3a
, L.6.3
+6
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"Constant Reader Learning Materials" is really a teacher and professor hiding in the background avoiding the policies that says he can't write curriculum for others or sell his work. Professor Constant Reader earned a position as an expert in Common Core from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has created curriculum for himself and his classroom, for other schools and educators, for publication, college courses, and home school.
His publishing credits include more than 40 online courses for a major university, 55 online textbooks, a guide to writing, a novel, four travel guides, and numerous chapters, stories, poems, and essays.
Teaching style
Professor Constant Reader loves to find the alternative meanings in texts. He challenges gifted students to rise to college level (or as close as they can get) thinking, reading, and writing. Meanwhile, he is very attuned to students facing various challenges who need extra help and guidance.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Common Core Expert,
Teacher of the Year,
Teaching Assistant of the Year,
Professor of the Year,
Phi Beta Kappa,
Sigma Tau Delta,
Salutatorian,
Prize in Ethics
My own education history
B.A. University of Maryland (English),
M.A. Johns Hopkins University (Creative Writing and English Literature),
M.F.A. University of Miami (Creative Writing),
M.Ed. Notre Dame of Maryland (Education),
M.A. (ongoing) Harvard University (Special Status Student)
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