Blog Lessons

Welcome, teachers!  Here are the lessons I've done on this site so far:

Reading List Story:  This was a lesson that culminated active classroom work on the independent reading element of my curriculum.  Students created a top ten reading list, creating a pseudonym, a lead paragraph, and a review of ten books which was then illustrated with pictures of books copied from Amazon.com.  I created a story with all of their lists attached in a way that the lists' authors were anonymous.  Students read and commented on each other's lists without knowing who they were writing to other than their taste in books. 

• Introduction
• Text Entry
• Editing
• Proofreading
• Student Work

I-Search Report:  Students research a topic of their own choice, learning to find print sources, internet sources, and human resources.  Students read for understanding, applying a variety of strategies to paraphrase, record and organize notes from their various sources.  They write their report using a report map, then go through the writing process: first draft, revision, second draft, proofreading, and final draft.  They then put the report together complete with visual aids, bibliography and footnotes, table of contents and title page.  Read more about why you should do an I-Search in this story: I-Search

• Introduction
• Rubric
• Checklist
• Topic Selection and 5 Interesting Questions
• Preliminary Research
• Keeping an I-Search Journal
• Finding Just-Right Print Sources for You
• Monitoring Your Comprehension
• Keeping Track of Your Progress with your I-Search Checklist
• How to Use SFPL's electronic resources
• Finding Internet Sources
• Bibliography Information
• Writing Your Report: Prewriting with the I-Search Report Map
• Writing Your Report: Prewriting, continued
• California 8th Grade Language Arts Standards
• Modifications