The first thing students need to know, as you teach them essay writing skills, is what mistakes they're most likely to make. Only after being explicitly taught common essay writing problems will they be able to identify and avoid them. This three-part lesson plan will guide you through the process of getting students writing, teaching … Continue reading Identifying and Avoiding Common Essay Problems
If you're a new teacher you're probably wondering how to teach essay writing skills to your students. If you're a seasoned teacher, you're still probably wondering how to teacher essay writing skills to your students. Though they are one of the most basic foundational elements a student needs for success, finding ways to communicating those … Continue reading How to Teach Essay Writing Skills
LITERACY SKILLS are the key, transferable skills required to process, and understand the multitude of TEXTS we encounter every day. From VISUAL to AUDITORY, from video games to novels, we rely on our skills to make meaning and ascertain messages. Like all skills, they must be developed, honed, and practiced. One of the best ways to INTRODUCE or REINFORCE these skills with your students in … Continue reading Literacy Skills: Short Stories
Having read your TEXT, you will create a MIND MAP exploring different connections between the story and the world around you. Next, they will research THREE of the connections before choosing one PROJECT-BASED FORMAT. Finally, you will use that format to create a SYNTHESIS of both the STORY and your RESEARCH in order to fully … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Synthesizing]
When reading a text, it is important to ask yourself questions. One of the most important questions is WHAT do I think will HAPPEN NEXT? This allows us to reframe the story, and READ for MEANING in a new CONTEXT. Charles: A Focus on Literacy Skills Charles is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. A full … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Predicting]
Having made INTERTEXTUAL CONNECTION between this story and other texts, you are fully prepared to make INTRATEXTUAL connections by COMPARING things within the text itself. Charles: A Focus on Literacy Skills Charles is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. A full copy of the text can be READ HERE. This SERIES will focus on all TEN KEY LITERACY SKILLS. … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Comparing]
Making CONNECTIONS to a text allows the reader to develop a stronger understanding of the events, characters, and actions by considering how they relate to familiar, personal, or societal experiences. Charles: A Focus on Literacy Skills Charles is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. A full copy of the text can be READ HERE. This SERIES will focus … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Connecting]
Questions lead us to consider the DEEPER MEANING of a text. Both ANSWERING and ASKING questions we enhance our understanding while developing new perspectives from which to interact with a selected text. Charles: A Focus on Literacy Skills Charles is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. A full copy of the text can be READ HERE. … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Questioning]
When you are not LITERALLY told something you are required to make an EDUCATED GUESS about what is happening. This literacy skill is called INFERRING. By using your own PRIOR KNOWLEDGE as well as information from the TEXT you can support your conclusion. Charles: A Focus on Literacy Skills Charles is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. A full copy of the text … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Inferring]
Placing yourself in the text, IMAGINING the world brought to life, grants a stronger understanding of the environment, the characters' choices, and the ability to predict things to come. VISUALIZING demands that you focus on all FIVE SENSES to explore the text's environment as if you were there. Charles: A Focus on Literacy Skills Charles is a short story … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Visualizing]
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