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Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays for the Classroom Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays Readers Theater is a dramatic presentation of a written work in a script form. Readers read from a "script" and reading parts are divided among the readers. "Reader's Theater proved to be almost a magic solution for Griffith: In just 10 weeks of using RT, every child in her class had gained a full grade level in reading. Update - July 08

Texting with Activexpressions | BrainPOP Educators Today BrainPOP was visited by one of Promethean’s super-talented TLC’s, Ben Posner. Ben showed us Promethean’s new Activexpression devices and helped us brainstorm ways to use them with BrainPOP. Activexpressions are Student Response Systems, or SRS devices. If you’re not familiar with SRS devices, they allow teachers to get instant feedback on what each student knows or has to say. Newer SRS devices allow students to respond in a variety of ways; the Activexpression devices even allow students to text short answers with a mobile-phone like design. One topic we explored was how students could use SRS devices like Activexpression to write collaboratively. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty excited that students can now put those texting skills to work for an educational purpose!

Recently added Comprehension Strategies - Making connections, questioning, inferring, determining importance, and more from Strategies That Work, Mosaic of Thought, and Reading with Meaning, this page gives you information on the six comprehension strategies known as making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, determining importance, and synthesizing. All About Adolescent Literacy | AdLit.org 3rd - Mrs. Deborah Burke / Social Studies Symbaloo Skip to Main Content District Home Select a School... Select a School Sign In Register search Craigsville Elementary School EmailDirectoryContact 3rd - Mrs. English K–10 :: Work Samples stage 3 (Years 5 and 6) Sample Activities Activity 1 - Persuasive Text Students choose a topic, research and plan a discussion on it, produce a hand-written draft, and a final draft is published using a computer. Activity 2 - Informative Text Students write an informative text in the form of an explanation about how and why floods occur. Activity 3 - Informative Text Students research an animal that lives in the rainforest, select relevant facts and write an information report. Activity 4 - Imaginative Text Students plan, draft and write a narrative using visual stimulus as a starting point. Activity 5 - Persuasive Text Students analyse the persuasive strategies used in some advertisements, then design their own advertisement for a magazine or newspaper. Activity 6 - Persuasive Text Students discuss an artwork in class, then draft and edit their response thoroughly to produce a published text with a focus on persuasion. Activity 7 - Informative Text Activity 8 - Informative Text

3rd - Mrs. Myers / Myers' Magnificents' gameplan and web activities Dear families, Can you believe we are in our last six weeks! Students and parents, thank you for your involvement in our class and your student's education. They are certainly worth our effort to work together! :) We've completed our Reading SOL testing! C.A.N. Since 3rd grade is considered upper elementary level, students have a homework folder that includes their homework packet for the week and their Word Study notebook each evening. I am implementing some whole brain teaching strategies this year, to help your student become more engaged in their education and teach one another what they are learning. As teachers, we will be focusing on teaching and learning to be visible. I am enjoying your children! We have a classroom pet named Rex (Rexie), who is a Mini Rex breed. Remember, Verona kids are respectful, responsible, and eager to always be learning! Sincerely, Mrs.

Primary Archives - Reading Australia Amy and Louis Amy and Louis are best friends. They live next door to each other. When they want to play they call… Teacher Resource Are We There Yet? Join Grace and her family on their adventurous and sometimes funny expedition. Teacher Resource Ash Road It's hot, dry and sweaty on Ash Road, where Graham, Harry and Wallace are getting their first taste … Teacher Resource Big Rain Coming A lyrical story about waiting for the rain to come to an isolated Aboriginal community. Teacher Resource Come Down, Cat! From the combined talents of Sonya Hartnett and Lucia Masciullo comes this tale of friendship and … Teacher Resource Do Not Go Around the Edges Daisy's life story runs along the bottom of the pages: how she was born on a mission, schooled, … Teacher Resource Don’t Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen! When birds go places they don’t belong, they get up to all kinds of mischief. Teacher Resource Dot and the Kangaroo Lost and afraid in the darkening bush, Dot is befriended by a kind Kangaroo. Teacher Resource

3rd Grade 3rd GRADE Please click here to see a full description of the SOL's. Internet Safety LANGUAGE, Released test TP1, Released Test TP 2, Released Test TP 3 SCIENCE, Review 1, Review 2, Review 3, Review 4, Review 5, Review 6, Review 7, Review 8 Released Test Turning Points: 2002, 2002 Part1, 2002 Part 2, 2004, 2004 Part 1, 2004 Part2, 2006, 2006 Part 1, 2006 Part 2, 2008, 2008 Part1, 2008 Part 2 List of Prepositions This list of prepositions will help you understand what a preposition is. Let's start by having you listen to the preposition song. I'll sing it for you in the video. (You'll find a long list of prepositions below the video.) Quick Refresher Prepositions are words that show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word or element in the rest of the sentence. This list contains one-word, two-word, and three-word prepositions. A aboard, about, above, across, after, against, ahead of, along, amid, amidst, among, around, as, as far as, as of, aside from, at, athwart, atop B barring, because of, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, besides, between, beyond, but, by, by means of C circa, concerning D despite, down, during E except, except for, excluding F far from, following, for, from I in, in accordance with, in addition to, in case of, in front of, in lieu of, in place of, in spite of, including, inside, instead of, into L like M minus N near, next to, notwithstanding

Tracing Back the ROOTS OF MY ROOTS: Richard I "the Fearless" and Gunnora Richard I, Duke of NormandyRichard I "the Fearless" or (French) "Sans Peur" Richard I of Normandy (933–996), also known as Richard the Fearless (French: Sans Peur), was the Duke of Normandy from 942 to 996. Dudo of Saint-Quentin, whom Richard commissioned to write his De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum (Latin: On the Customs and Deeds of the First Dukes of Normandy), called him a dux, but this use of the word may have been in the context of Richard's leadership in war, and not a reference to a title of nobility.Richard either introduced feudalism into Normandy, or he greatly expanded it. By the end of his reign, most important landholders held their lands in feudal tenure. Birth Richard was born to William I of Normandy, princeps or ruler of Normandy, and Sprota. He was also the grandson of the famous Rollo. Life When his father died, Louis IV of France seized Normandy, installed the boy Richard in his father's office, then placed him in the care of the count of Ponthieu.

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