Check Out These Clever LEGO Adaptations of Famous Works The Literacy Site By The Literacy Site LIT_Blog_DTOP_BelowTitle_336x280 It is not surprising that a number of productions have adapted Shakespeare to suit modern times, but never has one featured actors made of plastic bricks and an iPhone. Lego celebrated the legacy of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death by recreating key scenes from three of his most well known and classic plays — Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth — using stop-motion animation. What are you waiting for? Read more about some strange Shakespearean adaptations here. Proper LIT literacysite_abovevideo Proper LIT literacysite_belowcontent The Literacy Site is a place where people can come together to help children gain access to a good education.
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Poems & Questions for National Poetry Month Skip to main content <div id="nojs-warning">WARNING: Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display</div> Sign InRegister ReadWorks.org The Solution to Reading Comprehension Search form ReadWorks Poems & Questions for National Poetry Month Share now! Print Kindergarten "As I Was Going to St. "Mix a Pancake" By Christina G. 1st Grade "Drinking Fountain" By Marchette Chute "Covers" By Nikki Giovanni 2nd Grade "The Wind" By Robert Louis Stevenson "Afternoon on a Hill" By Edna St. 3rd Grade "Fireflies in the Garden" By Robert Lee Frost "Autumn" By Emily Dickinson "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" By Robert Lee Frost 4th Grade "A Bird Came Down the Walk" By Emily Dickinson "Dust of Snow" By Robert Lee Frost "September" By Helen Hunt Jackson 5th Grade "The New Colossus" By Emma Lazarus "The Echoing Green" By William Blake "Casey at the Bat" By Ernest Lawrence Thayer 6th Grade "City Autumn" By Joseph Moncure March "Wild Goose" By Curtis Heath "The Road Not Taken" By Robert Lee Frost 7th Grade 8th Grade
T&L links | @mrocallaghan_edu image via @gapingvoid Challenge (includes differentiation) Explanation Modelling Practice (includes mastery approach) Feedback Questioning Literacy 20 months reading progress in 10 months: Share this: Like this: Leave a Reply Cancel %d bloggers like this: Redefining Literacy in the Digital Age -- Campus Technology 21st Century Skills Redefining Literacy in the Digital Age Technology and digital media are changing the meaning of literacy and creating new challenges for teaching and learning. The literacy challenge here in the United States has been with us for some time. Several sources indicate that the percentages of adult illiteracy have not changed in 10 years: The Huffington Post notes: According to a study conducted in late April by the U.S. While these statistics are powerful, it is important to realize two issues: There are many challenges that impact illiteracy, not just general education; and There are currently many different types of literacy and so the scope of the challenge has increased and is not being fully assessed or evaluated. We hear K–12 teachers say on a regular basis that literacy remains a huge challenge for their students. Literacy Skills: Conventional and Progressive As we likely all realize, the conventional idea of literacy concerns reading and writing.
Games | Elegy for a Dead World In Elegy for a Dead World, you travel to distant planets and create stories about the people who once lived there. Three portals have opened to uncharted worlds. Earth has sent a team of explorers to investigate them, but after an accident, you are the sole survivor. The game is out now on Windows, Mac, and Linux on Steam. We created Elegy so that everyone can write. As you encounter these elements, Elegy will cue you with a series of writing prompts. There are many stories to write and many places to visit, from the crumbling museum, stone faces and sweltering plains of Shelley’s World to the central planning station on Keats’ World to the desiccated shores and frigid tundra of Byron’s World. Each world offers multiple sets of prompts, each intended to inspire you to write a different story about it. When you’ve completed your narrative, you have the option to share it with other players through Steam Workshop or reproduce it in digital and print media.
Understand what you read Books That Grow Reader — Books That Grow Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, put his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. "Hark at the wind," said Mr. White, who, having seen a fatal mistake after it was too late, was amiably desirous of preventing his son from seeing it. "I'm listening," said the latter, grimly surveying the board as he stretched out his hand. Outside, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor of Laburnam Villa, the blinds were drawn, and the fire burned brightly. Outside, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor of Laburnam Villa, the blinds were drawn, and the fire burned brightly. Outside, the night was cold and wet.
10 books that will change how you think forever Sometimes it’s a lecture. Sometimes it’s a particular teacher’s words. Sometimes it’s a lesson from a parent or a friend, or even a life experience that explodes your conception of what’s possible in the world or what’s possible in you. To live is to learn, and to read is to learn fast from the experience of others. Speaking from experience, we think that this list of ten books by influential writers and thinkers in every field from psychology to economics just might change how you think about the world, work, other people, and yourself. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance We gravely overestimate the impact of luck and random events on our lives, using terms like “skills,” and “determinism,” when “luck” and “randomness” are the elements actually at play. In this book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb cites real-world examples to whip the veil of certainty from our eyes and explains that life is mostly governed by chance. The Wisdom of Crowds Stanford professor Robert I.
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