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Writing a Palm Story: Ideation for Creative Writing

June 1, 2018June 6, 2019Leave a comment

Palm Stories are short stories that students write using nothing more than the palm of their hand, and a little bit of imagination.  Teachers ask students to close their eyes and picture a number of different things, making point form notes along the way.  At the end of their meditative journey, they will have the … Continue reading Writing a Palm Story: Ideation for Creative Writing

Introduction to Choose Our Way Tales

June 1, 2018June 6, 2019Leave a comment

Choose Our Way tales (COWtales) are stories where the reader gets to make a choice about the direction the story will follow.  By being an active participant in the story, readers are more engaged and willing to press forward through the text. COWtales have a number of branching plot threads, as well as a variety of endings.  … Continue reading Introduction to Choose Our Way Tales

Overview of the Ten Key Literacy Skills

May 28, 2018March 30, 2022

These ten key literacy skills are used in every classroom, regardless of subject or grade area.  Using these, or slightly modified, headers on your assignment sheets will help students understand that the skills exist from one subject area to the next.  It will also help you chunking your assignments so they are easier for students … Continue reading Overview of the Ten Key Literacy Skills

Literacy Skills – An Introduction

May 28, 2018June 5, 2019

Literacy Skills are transferable skills that permeate cross-curricular lessons from kindergarten to post-secondary classrooms. Students use these skills to process each text they encounter, be it a map, a math problem, a song, a blue print, a short story, a painting, or any number of other things. Many students fail to recognize that they use … Continue reading Literacy Skills – An Introduction

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