Week Three: Some of you might have asked your students to come to class today having watched a sports event on the weekend and bringing examples of play-by-play CDs and color commentator CMs. If so, use the first half of …
Dear Dr. D’ I want to teach the writing program, a literary work, grammar, vocabulary. I don’t know where to start or how to get it all in. I wanted to begin with Mildred Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My …
Jane’s #4 Non-Negotiable: Common Terminology for the Paragraph and Essay Helps Students Learn. In my years of teaching, I have witnessed the frustration of students who go from one class to another and are required to learn new terminology for the …
Dear Dr. D’ I am a high school English teacher, and because the Writing section of Common Core does not list Literature, I am expected to teach non-fiction for writing purposes. Students need to learn and write about the classics! …
I am constantly being asked for a Scope and Sequence, and I’ve always been reticent to provide one, because I want teachers to have flexibility. Sometimes, an entity will put out a Curriculum, and then it becomes mandatory and leaves …
Dear Dr. D’, I’m concerned that, since everything is so new, the students do not understand how those individual sheets connect to the big picture of writing? Answer:Start with a final piece. Show them a sample of the end result. …
This workshop is two days, 5 hours each day (not including lunch). Day 1 is a prerequisite to Day 2. The morning of Day 1 covers part of the same content as Teaching the Paragraph in ELA and Content-Area Classes; …