Engaging Deeper Thinking
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I have taught fifth and sixth grade- all subject areas. In sixth grade I taught gifted students at a title 1 school and spent a lot of time figuring out the best way to keep the gifted students engaged and challenged.
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Notice and Note Booksnaps-The Lightning Thief
Annotating while a student reads is an incredibly important skill. This assignment makes annotating fun with booksnaps. Students will look for signposts like words of the wiser, again and again, aha moments, memory moments, and tough questions. They will take a picture of the text and then create a fun and thoughtful reaction and analysis of the important quote they chose. This does not have to be used with The Lightning Thief. Booksnaps is an idea that works for any fictional book. It could be
4th - 8th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Literature
How I Built This Podcast Companion Sheet
How I Built This is a podcast about innovators and entrepreneurs that have made it big. There are over 400 episodes so I have curated a list that I think will interest students and are also appropriate for upper elementary students all the way through high school. This is a great podcast for the classroom because the more careers and exposure students have to other stories, the bigger their own dreams for the future can become. Have students choose 1 or 2 of the episodes to listen to on their o
4th - 12th
Business, English Language Arts
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I have taught fifth and sixth grade- all subject areas. In sixth grade I taught gifted students at a title 1 school and spent a lot of time figuring out the best way to keep the gifted students engaged and challenged.
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In math I focus a lot on an inquiry approach to learning where students construct their own ideas, look for patterns and share their thinking about math concepts. In ELA I found that picking an engaging text that the whole class reads with the differentiation coming in the paired texts that relate to the text we all read was most effective. I was trained in Shared Inquiry and thought the dialogue that came from this style of annotating and discussions was highly effective.
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