Districts have to have innovative and responsive ways to get appropriate
texts in the hands of students during the summer breaks.
Not exact matches
My kid already uses Siri to send most
of his
texts and emails (except when he's
in school; there he still uses the «
hands under the desk while pretending to listen attentively» move perfected by
students everywhere.)
Provide access to a wide variety
of texts: With a digital device
in their
hand, it's easier than ever for
students to search for an article, blog post, or ebook on a topic
of interest.
My
students are so engaged by the topic —
in our end -
of - year reflection it is
hands - down the most mentioned unit we study — that we have branched out naturally over the years into exploring other forms
of persuasion, such as speeches, print
text, and various aspects
of social media.
Online subscriptions to reading websites are also pricey and don't allow
students to hold a physical
text in their
hands, a necessity for emergent readers developing their vocabulary and concepts
of print.
2 Blocks
of Hands - on Learning Sessions: Visit classrooms where
students are demonstrating and learning how to create
in a variety
of ways — through coding, audio, video, images,
text and more.
Contains - Alphabet (topic word for each letter)- Comic Summary (read a story and summarise it
in comic form)-
Hand (research a volcano
in history and pull out main facts)- Imagination (descriptive writing prompt)- One Sentence Only (summarise each paragraph
in a chosen
text)- Positive and Negative effects (foldable sorting effects
of volcanoes)- Storyteller (narrative writing prompt)- Structure
of a volcano (information sheet for
students to create a volcano diagram)- Types
of volcano (foldable that involves matching names, description and picture)- Volcanic Eruptions Comprehension (information passage with questions)- Volcano cloze (information
text with missing words about volcanoes)- Volcano explorer (gathering information from interactive voclano website)- Volcano Vocabulary (foldable involving matching topic words to definitions)- Witness vs. Scientist (foldable involving sorting statements)
The Benefits
of Learning Online Web - based high - school classes, similar to the kind that VHS offers, can, therefore, embolden the shy
student in the third row who never raises her
hand in class or the
student who struggles a bit with English and needs more time to mull over
texts or sound clips.
As
students work through eScience3000's proven 5 - step routine, they read and discuss
texts to develop meaningful understandings
of disciplinary core ideas; engage
in hands - on activities and investigations that reflect today's science and engineering practices; and reflect on crosscutting concepts and the nature
of science as they analyze their results and write about their conclusions.
-- J. Cody Summerville, Kindergarten Teacher, Pflugerville Independent School District Whether
in my role as administrator
of a school or teacher
of college
students, I have always kept Feeney and Freeman's
text close at
hand.