Having already taught your students how to write a FIVE SENTENCE COMPARISON PARAGRAPH you have the base materials required to construct a Five Paragraph Essay Outline. While the Five Paragraph Essay is far from the best form for students to express their ideas, the organizational skills learned while writing a five paragraph essay will built the … Continue reading Teaching How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay
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
The CREATION AND PUBLICATION PROJECT was constructed to be in line with the Five Global Competencies that make up the backbone of the TDSB’s Vision for Learning. Below you will find a list of those competencies, and their specific look-fors. Below each of the look-fors you will find Italicized Text that explains how our assignment connects … Continue reading TDSB Global Competencies
Having looked at a number of ways for students to take their work outside of the classroom, it's important to give them something that they will want to strive towards. A project based task that encourages them to discover and work to solve an issue in their own community is a great way to engage … Continue reading Creation and Publication Project
Having looked at the importance of MAKING PROJECTS MEANINGFUL by giving them life outside of the classroom, we now focus on how those projects can be given life in the world. There are three main ways students can take their work beyond the classroom: Submitting Written WorkSelf Distribution and Self PublicationSubmitting Media Arts In this article … Continue reading Placing Student Work in the World – Part Three [Submitting Media Arts]
Having looked at the importance of MAKING PROJECTS MEANINGFUL by giving them life outside of the classroom, we now focus on how those projects can be given life in the world. There are three main ways students can take their work beyond the classroom: Submitting Written WorkSelf Distribution and Self PublicationSubmitting Media Arts In this article … Continue reading Placing Student Work in the World – Part Two [Self-Distribution and Self-Publication]
When student work is given life outside the classroom, there is a strong desire to create the very best piece possible, as students will have to own their creation not only in relationship to their peer group, but to the much wider audience. At the same time, students will learn valuable skills that will prepare … Continue reading Placing Student Work in the World – Part One [Submitting Written Work]
Student work so often dies on the teacher’s desk. A project that took dozens of hours, and led to the creation of a beautiful artefact is handed in, given a mark, and discarded. Every year hundreds of student hours, per teacher, create meaningful projects only to see them recycled or thrown out, never given a … Continue reading Making Projects Meaningful
Founded in 1995, BOOM! Studios creates comics and graphic novels for all age groups. While they have a number of original titles such as Lumberjanes, Slam!, Giant Days, and Mouse Guard they also focus on comics based on licensed properties such as WWE, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.1 Boom! Studios offers a WIDE RANGE OF … Continue reading Spotlight On: BOOM! Studios Comics
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