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Pixar short films are a great way to target essential literary elements and techniques from characterization to theme to conflict to symbolism. These Pixar short films inspire class discussion and analysis, and students can then in turn write essays based upon these films. They are an excellent to
Who says English proficiency cannot be acquired while learning content? Incorporating scaffolds like visual support, chunking information, and providing interactive activities while reading texts are ways to support English and content learning for newcomers. All you need to teach vocabulary related to "Map Skills" for newcomers is available in this resource: Before-Reading: complete an interactive Visual Glossary. While-Reading: read the chunked text and complete the comprehension activities for each paragraph or section in the text. Post-Reading: complete activities to check comprehension. You can use the Bilingual Anchor Charts included for reference while going over the text and Visual Glossary, and for additional exposure to key vocabulary in English. Included in this resource: --- Bilingual Anchor Charts: Three Parts of Speech and Six Question Words for reference while using this resource --- Visual Glossary to be completed by students - pictures included --- Text in English, divided in paragraphs, with comprehension activities for each paragraph or section --- Post-reading activities with scaffolds.
With the Common Core Standards in place, students are being asked more and more to use critical thinking skills to analyze literary and informational text. Inference is a prime example of a critical thinking skill used in classrooms today. Students are asked to read text and analyze it by
Pixar short films are a great way to target essential literary elements and techniques from characterization to theme to conflict to symbolism. These Pixar short films inspire class discussion and analysis, and students can then in turn write essays based upon these films. They are an excellent to
Looking for techniques to teach visual literacy? Read on to learn about the OPTIC strategy for rhetorical analysis of visual texts and images.
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How are you doing with teaching non-fiction, informational texts? Do you feel you have a good grasp on expository text structures? With the Common Core ELA standards, students are expected to be proficient in reading complex informational texts. State assessments are also becoming more non-fiction focused, to evaluate student abilities in navigating these complex texts. So what can we do to help our students meet these standards? The purpose of this post is to provide a few resources for teaching non-fiction, in preparation for the higher levels of achievement students are expected to reach! The ideas shared are perfect for upper
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This file includes student friendly writing visuals to help your students organize a text dependent analysis (TDA). Also included is an anchor chart with text evidence sentence starters/stems. *This file does not include text passages.
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Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.
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Looking for techniques to teach visual literacy? Read on to learn about the OPTIC strategy for rhetorical analysis of visual texts and images.
On the little-known \"alogrithmic\" art of the late Italian polymath designerThe late Italian artist and writer Enzo Mari (1932-2020) is perhaps most famed for his modernist and industrial furniture designs, such as the box chair and the \"sof sof\" chair, but he produced an expansive oeuvre in art across various mediums. This catalog, published for an exhibition at Galleria Massimo Minini, gathers the artist's drawings, prints and sculptures. The works in the volume embody the fruits of Mari's research into \"programmed\" or \"algorithmic\" art; he was especially interested in creating works that could be enjoyed diachronically. To that end, he created a series of models consisting of a programmed combination of prefabricated module elements; these sequences visually represent the passage of time. Mari's extraordinarily methodical, intellectually rigorous approach to all of his work translates exquisitely to his art.
Use these washing hands visual sequence cards to walk children through the process of hand washing.
The Modern Boho Sound Wall includes the resources to set up a Vowel Valley and Consonant Wall in your classroom. The phoneme posters have clear visuals to help your students remember the sounds. 127 different grapheme cards (representing the most common spelling patterns) are included. Choose from 2 designs: Navy & Gold OR Neutral Color Blocks. There are guide maps to help you set up your Vowel Valley & Consonant Wall. EDITABLE POWERPOINT templates allow you to add your own text and graphics. You can easily create customized phoneme and grapheme cards to suit the specific needs of your classroom. MANY EXTRAS INCLUDING: Mouth articulation cards SOUND WALL large pennant display VOWEL VALLEY & CONSONANT title tiles Lock cards to cover sounds that have not been introduced yet Voiced/Unvoiced icons Please Note: This resource is a tool to set up a Sound Wall. It is not an instructional guide to implement the daily instruction in your classroom. GRAPHEMES INCLUDED: VOWEL VALLEY LONG E: ee, ea, ey, e, _y, e_e, ie, ei SHORT I: i, y LONG A: a, a_e, ay, ai, ei, ea, eigh, ey SHORT E: e, ea SHORT A: a LONG I: i_e, ie, y, igh, I SHORT O: o, a, al SHORT U: u, o, oo, ou AW: aw, au, all, a, ou LONG O: o_e, oa, oe, ow, o SHORT OO: oo, u, ou LONG U: oo, u_e, ue, ew, ui, ou, u YU: u_e, u, ew, eu SCHWA: a, e, i, o, u OU/OW OI/OY ER/IR/UR AR OR CONSONANT WALL P: p B: b T: t, _ed D: d, _ed K: k, c, ck, ch G: g, gh L: l, ll R: r, wr M: m, mb N: n, gn, kn, pn NG: ng CH: ch, _tch J: j, g, dge WH: wh W: w Y: y F: f, ph V: v, _ve TH: th S: s, ss, ce, c, ci, cy Z: z, s, zz SH: sh, ch, ci, ti ZH: s, si H: h QU: qu X: x SIZES: Phoneme Cards - 5.25" x 8" Grapheme Cards - 5.25" x 2.5" Articulation (Mouth) Cards: 5.25" x 3.5" Square Title Letters: 5" x 5" Pennants: 8" x 9" EASY EDITING: Editable PowerPoint templates allow you to EDIT THE TEXT and add your own graphics. The background designs are not editable. Fonts are embedded on the phoneme and grapheme cards. Some MAC and older versions of PowerPoint may not support this feature. In this case, you can use any font installed on your computer. TECH REQUIREMENTS: The PDF files should be opened in Adobe Reader for the best viewing and printing experience. It is a free download from Adobe and the link is included in the file. The editable PowerPoint file requires access to Microsoft PowerPoint. Using the desktop version of PowerPoint on your computer/laptop is recommended. The web-based version of PowerPoint has some limitations that may interfere with text features (outlines, shadows, font size).
BABADADA dictionaries are visual language education: Simple learning takes center stage. In a BABADADA dictionary images and language merge into a unit that is easy to learn and remember. Each book contains over 1000 black-and-white illustrations. The goal is to learn the basics of a language much faster and with more fun than possible with a complicated text dictionary. This book is based on the very successful online picture dictionary BABADADA.COM, which offers easy language entry for countless language combinations - Used by thousands of people and approved by well-known institutions.
This is quick and easy for you with no prep! These posters are a great way for students to make a visual association between text to text, text to self, text to world, and text to media connections in the classroom. These visuals are perfect for your English Language Learners or your Emergent Bilinguals! I use these printables in my classroom for interactive notebooks. These items are in color, ready to print and go! This is a PDF file. This download includes the following items: 1 Text Connections Poster 1 Text to Self Poster 1 Text to Text Poster 1 Text to World Poster 1 Text to Media Poster 1 Mini-Poster for Interactive Notebooks Vanilla Scented Classroom © 2022 All rights reserved by author. Not for commercial use. For personal use only. I would ❤ to hear from you! I love creating useful products for teachers. Follow me here to be notified immediately when awesome new resources are added! All of my wonderful products are 50% off for the first 24 hours! Remember to earn your free TpT credit by leaving feedback when you purchase. Thank you! ►►►Follow me on Instagram to be notified of my giveaways! *************************************************************************** ⭐Perfect activity for text connections: Jamboard for Text Connections This same resource is in Spanish! Text Connections Spanish ⭐ Get the Growing Bundle for Slides & Jamboard, it's a great deal! reading | literacy | posters | journal | writing | printable
As adult readers, we know the importance of using nonfiction text features in order to help us understand the main body of text. Headings help us to make predictions while reading, and then easily find
Visualization is an important comprehension strategy to teach growing readers...and it's a fun one! Visualization= drawing, right? I love teaching visualization, but I always end feeling like it's "to each his own" kind of strategy without any real accountability. In my second grade curriculum, readers are required to create a visualization drawing from a specified piece of text, and then label the visualization with key words from the text. Simple enough, but so many were still not getting it. So this is what I did... I gave my students a simple non-fiction passage about the animal called an okapi (which you can download here or by clicking on the photo below). I chose an animal that I knew my students wouldn't be familiar with prior to reading. This would ensure that they weren't relying simply on prior knowledge. We read the text together, and discussed it. I projected the text, using think-alouds to identify key words and interesting facts. Okapi Passage Next, students reread the text to themselves (or with me in a small group). After reading, students drew their visualizations. Finally, they cut apart the text to label pieces of their visualization. Students had to find text details and glue them onto their drawings to label the parts of the drawings. This reinforced identifying important details and held students accountable for the contents of their visualization. I required my students to label at least 5 parts of their illustration using text details. They did a fabulous job! Take a look at some of these examples! After we finished, students compared visualizations with the other members of their table groups. They found out that they had a lot of the same things drawn and labeled. Lightbulb moment! They were similar because they were using text details and finding important information! Win-win! It was a pretty simple lesson, but it hit two important reading skills at once. What's your favorite way to teach visualization and/or identification of important text details? I'm always looking for new ideas. Save this idea for later by Pinning it!
Are your students disinterested and tired of the traditional ways of learning characterization? Have you been searching for a really fun, student-centered, interactive way to eliminate their boredom? Well, look no further! I present to you a wonderful student-collaboration activity that will get your students involved and excited for a character analysis for any novel, […]
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Pixar short films are a great way to target essential literary elements and techniques from characterization to theme to conflict to symbolism. These Pixar short films inspire class discussion and analysis, and students can then in turn write essays based upon these films. They are an excellent to