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Creative Writing Worksheet – History (PDF) I have another worldbuilding worksheet for you! This one has two pages; the first will prompt you to detail all of the major turning points in your world’s history, and the second will question you closely about how your peoples record, study and interpret history. The nice thing about history is…
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Summarizing is one of the hardest strategies to teach and for students to learn. Many students will retell the text ... almost word for word when asked to give a summary. In order for students to learn the difference between a retelling and a summary, teachers must model, model, model summarizing often. According to Dr. Jan Richardson, when we ask our students to summarize they ... write too much or not enough do not capture the most important ideas copy word for word from the text do not understand the vocabulary "brief" do not know the difference between a retelling and a summary A summary is a higher level response than a retelling ... in a retell, students retell as much as they can recall from the text but in a summary they have to synthesize the text and condense it so that they only highlight the key points using key words and phrases from the text. The Somebody-Wanted-But-So (SWBS) format is a great scaffold for guiding students to give a summary NOT a retell. In K-2 classrooms we can help our young readers learn how to summarize by using the SBWS strategy. Since I am not "in the classroom" anymore ... I decided to check out what other teachers are doing to teach summarizing ...particularly with using the Somebody-Wanted-But-So strategy. The key to success for young readers to grasp summarizing and the SWBS strategy is modeling how to use this strategy. Do this during whole group read aloud lessons and modeled, shared or interactive writing events. Here is an example of how The First Grade Buddies built a chart over several days during read aloud time. Here is another example of charting during read aloud time to teach the SBWS strategy from Life in First Grade. Here is a chart that is ready made and can be used over and over from The Pinspired Teacher. Here is a chart ready for whole group modeling... the teacher has it all planned out on the little sheet on top of the book and ready to fill it in with the students. She switched the position of the So and Then ... (this is ok if it fits with a particular book) and she added the word Summary at the bottom so that the students could learn the next layer ... writing their thoughts into complete sentences. I would take of the part that says "retell". This pic was grabbed from Pinterest and there was not a link to the original creator. Another key to success is making the strategy your own... it is ok to change it up to meet the needs of your students. Some teachers have added the T... "Then" to the framework. I have also seen where the B stood for because ... Somebody-Wanted-Because-So. This pic was grabbed from Fabulous Fourth Grade This pic was grabbed from The Brown Bag Teacher The chart below is a great anchor chart however, I would take off the right hand corner that says to "retell" this is where some confusions may occur when teaching summarizing. Students need to know the difference between the two. This pic was grabbed from Pinterest and there was not a link to the original creator. Once we have taken the time to model how to use the strategy during our whole class lessons, we can support our readers by having them apply what they have learned with our support during guided reading and then on their own during work station/center time or independent reading time. Model-Support-Independent = gradual release of responsibility!!! Here is a foldable activity from A Teacher's Treasure that students can use during centers ... this could be the model ... they can take the precut paper and label it themselves. I like to use a variety of sheets during guided reading and literacy stations. Click on the picture below to find differentiated SWBS foldables and organizers. This resource includes other organizers too! Happy Reading,
Writing Worksheet – Geography (PDF) This 4-page worksheet will be most useful to science-fiction and fantasy writers, but even if you’re writing within the confines of “our” world, it’s worth giving geography some thought. Most of history and politics is influenced by people’s need to gather and guard the natural resources that they collect from the earth,…
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We are knee-deep in our 5th grade historical fiction unit right now. This is always a favorite each year. We've blogged about our various HF adventures HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. In 5th grade, kids have already completed a HF unit when they were with us in 4th grade. During that time, they all read the SAME book. This year, to take them a little deeper, the kids main focus is studying the ERA they selected. Due to this, kids are all reading DIFFERENT books that are within the same era as their book club members. Our students also had to select a different era this year from the one they studied last year in our space. Eras we focused on this year: Colonial America, Revolutionary War, Westward Expansion, Civil War, WW2, and Civil Rights. Our favorite part of this, is that kids of all levels are in book clubs together, really creating fantastic discourse tied to era understanding and how their book fit together. A huge part of any historical fiction unit is nonfiction understanding of the era they are studying. We spent the first week+ immersing ourselves in nonfiction materials tied to our era. Kids shared ideas with each other and created a group timeline outlining important events from their era. As we have been working through our books and discussions, they started to bring up and share where their books fit into these non-fiction timelines. Last year, we made "double timelines", which were fun, but only one book could fit in that framework. This year, our amazing student teacher, Megan Leverence (she's looking for a job, people...anyone hiring?? :) found a great blog post. You can read it HERE. She took the idea and changed it up a little bit, and found a way to connect it to the timelines the kids created. Rather than write up "reviews," like the blog suggested, she had the kids create "book timelines" of the books they had been reading. She had them find 5-10 important events in their books (no spoilers allowed), and create a timeline "flipbook." Once the kids created their "flipbook timelines", they placed their books on the nonfiction timelines. This created a fantastic visual of where all of the books we were reading fit across history. We utilized a huge bulletin board in our hall to hang all the timelines and books on. It's been a great discussion and visual tool for all of our kiddos. How have you taught HF units? How do you bring in nonfiction? We'd love to learn with you! Happy Teaching, Angela
As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Edith Friedman Grosman, who was 17 when she arrived at the Nazi concentration camp, tells her harrowing story in a new book
Writing Worksheet – Geography (PDF) This 4-page worksheet will be most useful to science-fiction and fantasy writers, but even if you’re writing within the confines of “our” world, it’s worth giving geography some thought. Most of history and politics is influenced by people’s need to gather and guard the natural resources that they collect from the earth,…
A discussion of the importance of protagonists crossing the threshold, even in stories that don't follow The Hero's Journey.
This huge Reading Worksheet Printable Pack features 100 different printables for bookwork activities. There are both fiction and non-fiction printables that are able to be used with ANY TEXT which means that this pack can be reused all year round. There are SO many different activities which allow students to practice and develop many reading-related skills. They are great for developing comprehension which is one of the most important reading skills. Many of the activities also call for higher-order thinking. The printables cover: ♥ Story Elements – Setting, Plot, Characters, Problem, Solution, Sequence of Events. There are a number of diverse and creative activities. ♥ Reading Strategies – Inferring, predicting, summarizing, synthesizing, questioning, visualizing. ♥ Text Connections – Text-to-Self, Text-to-Text, Text-to-World ♥ Author Study – Author’s purpose, lesson, point-of-view, questions. ♥ Non-Fiction Texts - Main idea, Summarizing, Text Features, Diagrams, graphic organizers, learning reflection. ♥ Vocabulary Work – Finding word meanings, replacing “boring” words, finding interesting words. ♥ Nouns, Adjectives & Verbs – Generating adjectives for setting/character, finding these parts of speech within the text. Please see the preview for full view of printables!!! Includes both a US and an AUS/UK Version ♥♥♥ Follow me to be the first to hear about FREEBIES and updates ♥♥♥ ♥♥♥ Earn TPT Credits when you leave feedback ♥♥♥ I welcome and appreciate any feedback, comments or suggestions. You may also contact me on [email protected]
Creative Writing Worksheet – Quick Character Creator (PDF) The fact is, you can fill in every 100-item questionnaire about character creation in exhaustive detail and still end up with a character who is unsuitable for the story you’re trying to tell, who isn’t interesting, and who doesn’t feel real. Here’s what Aaron Sorkin (creator of…
An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts. Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper...
Facebook Twitter Pinterest 6.6k I was never much of a fan of history back in my own school days. As a matter of fact, I’m not sure ANY world history was taught to me in my whole kindergarten through twelfth-grade experience! Some Canadian history (yawn!) was covered of course, but the Roman Empire? The War […]
20 Awesome History Books for Kids. Whether you’re looking for homeschool history books or just plain good ancient history books for your homeschool, I have 20 awesome history books for kids,
Q 71311. A photograph of the propaganda poster entitled "Red Cross or Iron Cross" by David Wilson and WFB. The poster depicts a German nurse pouring a glass of water onto the ground in front of a wounded British soldier lying on a stretcher
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The chilling images reveal terrified citizens camping inside the now-closed Aldwych Tube station to escape the Blitz, while others depict chaos amongst the rubble on London's streets.
Apolaki and Mayari are Bathala's children with a mortal. The the light of their eyes serves as the light throughout the world.
Weg vom Morphium, weg aus Europa: Im Juni 1939 fuhren die Freundinnen Annemarie Schwarzenbach und Ella Maillart im Auto Richtung Hindukusch. Ihre grandiosen Fotos zeigen ein Land, das es so nicht mehr gibt.
It’s that time of year again when writers around the world prepare for NaNoWriMo – otherwise known as “National Novel Writing Month.” Taking place in November, NaNoWriMo challenges writers of all experiences to write an entire novel (or novella) in one month’s time, averaging about 1,667 words per
Im Ersten Weltkrieg arbeiteten Hunderte von jungen Frauen in Uhrenfabriken, wo sie die Zifferblätter von Uhren mit radiumhaltiger Leuchtfarbe bemalten. Doch als die Mädchen, die nach Schichtende buchstäblich im Dunkeln leuchteten, grausige Nebenwirkungen feststellten, begannen sie für ihr Recht zu kämpfen. Es war ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, dessen Ausgang das US-amerikanische Arbeitsrecht für immer verändern sollte.
When we found a First World War cook book, we had to try out some of the recipes...
Cash for capers: German children play with stacks of money in 1923. By the end of that year, the exchange rate was 4.2 trillion to the dollar. Photograph: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis. Germans were recently
The history of Japan dates back to the Paleolithic period, around 38-39,000 years ago,[1] with the first human inhabitants being the Jōmon people, who were hunter-gatherers.[2]
About Aladdin’s Lamp Aladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains how, as the Dark Ages shrouded Europe, scholars in medieval Baghdad translated the works of these Greek thinkers into Arabic, spreading their ideas throughout the Islamic world from Central Asia to Spain, with many Muslim scientists, most notably Avicenna, Alhazen, and Averroës, adding their own interpretations to the philosophy and science they had inherited. Freely goes on to show how, beginning in the twelfth century, these texts by Islamic scholars were then translated from Arabic into Latin, sparking the emergence of modern science at the dawn of the Renaissance, which climaxed in the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.
The average life expectancy for men was just 47, and only 6% of Americans graduated from high school.
Creative Writer Worksheet – Writing Playlist (PDF) Music is probably the best tool we have for changing our mood, and thanks to film scores and soundtracks, it’s also become the perfect aid to visualisation. Use this worksheet to create your ultimate writing mixtape. Block out the boisterous world and get down to some creative business!
Gentle readers, Downton Abbey, Season 2 will be shown on PBS through February 19, 2012. I will be writing a series of posts to help illuminate some historical details that might help the viewer who…
Explore our curated collection of ten thought-provoking dystopian writing prompts. Dive into worlds of forbidden history, environmental upheavals, virtual realities, and authoritarian societies. Ideal for writers seeking inspiration for their next dystopian tale.
“Hopepunk says that genuinely and sincerely caring about something, anything, requires bravery and strength. Hopepunk isn’t ever about submission or acceptance: It’s about standing up and fighting for what you believe in. It’s about standing up for other people. It’s about DEMANDING a better, kinder world, and truly believing that … Continue reading →
