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In the Classroom: Annotating Charlotte’s Web I begin every school year with a study of E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web. As I’ve written before here and elsewhere, it was not a book I gravitated to naturally. The PrincipalsPage.com Blog The Evil Spawn doesn’t have a phone. She has two parents who work, eat, and sleep technology but she doesn’t have a phone. Why? One, she doesn’t have a job. So how would she pay for it? ARKive - Discover the world's most endangered species Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. With the help of over 7,000 of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species. Freely accessible to everyone, over half a million people every month, from over 200 countries, used Arkive to learn and discover the wonders of the natural world. Since 2013 Wildscreen was unable to raise sufficient funds from trusts, foundations, corporates and individual donors to support the year-round costs of keeping Arkive online. Therefore, the charity had been using its reserves to keep the project online and was unable to fund any dedicated staff to maintain Arkive, let alone future-proof it, for over half a decade.
The Daring Librarian This is a mirror to a guest blog post on the YALSA blog! WARNING: This post may take a while to load because of several embedded Instagram posts. What’s the point of Instagram and why should you spend your precious time and money on it? Math in Children's Literature Math in Children's Literature 205K+Save New Update! Dec. 28, 2016My goal is to gradually update this list with new links. You can see which sections have been updated by looking for New!
Blogs That Promote Unconventional Discussion We were thrilled to see The Teaching Palette as a featured blog in the May/June issue of SchoolArts Magazine! If you missed the article, “Building Your Personal Learning Network, Part 2,” by Craig Roland, you can read it here. Like an artist that visits a museum for inspiration, we visit blogs to challenge our teaching and thought process. Put simply, a blog is like a living website; it continually digests and shares information. Considering our forum, we thought it might be appropriate to add to the SchoolArts list of blog resources: There are some amazing art classroom blogs certainly worth exploring out there, so please list yours or any you follow in the comments area below!
Seeing Teenagers As We Wish They Were: The Debate Over YA Fiction : Monkey See iStockphoto.com Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal ran a piece claiming that fiction at least nominally aimed at readers under 18 — young adult or "YA" fiction, that is — is entirely too dark. Calling out the books about kids who cut themselves or suffer abuse right alongside the books with abundant profanity in them, it laments the fact that young readers will be "surrounded by images not of joy or beauty but of damage, brutality and losses of the most horrendous kinds." Unsurprisingly, the commentary has come under intense criticism — it's not in any way a new complaint, and every response to it points that out, along with plenty of other problems. But as easy as it is to tear the piece apart — for its complete failure to acknowledge V.C. Do you remember being 15?
Kathy Cassidy This spring, our class has been working with other classes around the world--sharing and learning together. Several collaborative projects have resulted. The book below is one of the products from that collaboration and contains pages created by various PreK - 2 classrooms from around the world as part of the Flat Classroom Project. The Picture Book Bonanza Continues! It's part two of. . . Picture Book Bonanza! More picture books as recommended by you.(No giant asparagus included.)
:Roll up your sleeves and get messy “Reading” Sebastien Wiertz Close reading is one of the “strategies du jour”. From the Common Core State Standards in ELA: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. In addition from the Harvard Writing Center: Teaching Language Arts with Children's Books Teaching language arts with children's books is a recipe for educational success! Most teachers have a wide range of language arts teacher resource books in their classrooms, but many forget that their own classroom library is perhaps one of the most powerful language arts resources of all. The books listed below are great for teaching language arts for children in K-Grade 8. Finding the perfect book is easy.