Succeeding in a Diverse Classroom
Best Practices & Resources
Volume 1-Issue 7-September, 2018
Welcome!
Melanie Yocom
Email: myocom@esc11.net
Website: http://www.esc11.net/
Phone: 817-740-7563
Twitter: @myocomesc11
Readers get better at reading by reading. Writers get better at writing by writing.
Literacy Development Across the School Day
It is becoming more and more apparent that literacy cannot be the sole responsibility of the ELAR teacher. We cannot expect to see students improve without every teacher playing a role, regardless of content or level. Often, when content teachers are asked what the student is struggling with, the response is almost always reading and writing. Yet, these teachers don't offer quality time in class to read and write.
A coach would not expect a multi-sport athlete to stop running or weight training because he/she is now participating in a different sport. The coach would continue working on building a foundation and add skills specific to the sport. Most importantly, the coach has the athletes practice!
Below are resources to get you started and sustain literacy in your classroom:
- An Eduphoria article on the importance of reading, writing, and speaking in every content.
- The Lead4ward instructional playlist with specific strategies to promote student engagement, student interaction, and more.
- The Learning Network by The NY Times offers lessons across all contents with daily articles, activities, writing prompts, and quizzes.
- Word Generation promotes academic language development, providing current event articles for all content areas.
- 89 Visual Prompts by Gretchen Bernabei (Heinemann).
- Literacy instruction tips to use with English learners.
- Content instruction tips to use with English learners.
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Techie Highlight
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Sites to Bookmark:
- Create class lists, activities, assignments, and assessments Vocabulary.com https://www.vocabulary.com
- Classroom Screen-https://classroomscreen.com/
- Interactive classroom in real-time https://www.classkick.com
- K-5 Reading Student Centers http://www.fcrr.org/resources/resources_sca.html
- Free Content Powerpoints & Interactive activities http://www.pppst.com/
- Transform lessons to make learning impactful and engaging, or allow students to create animated products to show mastery https://www.powtoon.com/edu-home/
- Current event articles to promote critical reading, writing, speaking http://wordgen.serpmedia.org/
- English Learner Teacher Support http://www.colorincolorado.org/
- Writing Guru Gretchen Bernabei http://trailofbreadcrumbs.net/
- Free reading passages & Literacy Resources https://www.commonlit.org/
- 2,000+ multidisciplinary wonders https://wonderopolis.org/
- Free reading passages by lexile level and content https://www.readworks.org/
- Lead4ward.com http://lead4ward.com/resources/
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