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“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” ~Tuli Kupferberg To be the same yet so unique. I watch children develop and thrive in their own way. As a teacher I monitor their language, reading and cognitive and motor skills carefully while making the preschool environment fascinating and interesting for them. One day I was taking dictation on ...

From National Public Radio: The authorities in Iran continue to block the travel of the nation’s most prominent poet. Last week, as she was about to board a flight to Paris, police seized the passport of Simin Behbahani, who is 82 and nearly blind. Behbahani was interrogated all night long and then sent home — without her [...]

Some learning/teaching strategies I have learned from my work with my kids. I gave you some of them a few posts below. Begun on April 2, 2009 Translating sentences by all. In their tests they have translations. The student makes up a test as though he was the teacher. Just 4 questions. It is the “opposite side” of their desks – they are now ...

Lately Isaac has shown a great interest in writing, which is an important part of literacy (reading and writing go hand in hand). He is gaga for sticky pads! The smaller the piece of paper the better, it seems. He will sit for small chunks of time writing with pens and highlighters on his sticky pads. Actually, they're his daddy's stick pads. I ...

Students learn to write through writing. It’s a simple concept. If we want students to write well, they need lots of practice. Mondays are writing days in my AP English course. In addition to outside writing assignments, students write a 40-minute timed writing in my class each week. I am amazed at how much my [...]

Here you have two compos I've written for my C-2-level course. We the students were assigned as homework to write two compositions or essays or stories. Would be nice they like you - I had real fun at writing them. NB.: Please don't get me wrong if the stuff about ''The insurgent'' be of any bit of a disgust for anyone: was not my intention: ...

Based on standardized test scores, this year my school has focused on improving our students’ reading comprehension. Every now and then we have been shown scores and have been encouraged to increase the amount of reading that we require, particularly the reading of nonfiction texts. We’ve had staff development on how to increase reading ...

Free Writing Worksheets for teachers, parents and kids. Use these writing worksheets with your lesson plans to help your kids succeed in the writing process. From writing the letters of the alphabet to writing sentences and paragraphs to writing expository essays, you will find what you need here.   Writing Worksheets - Click HereHere is ...

PaperRater is a great site for Middles/High School students who want to improve their writing. This site checks student's writing by checking: grammar, spelling, and for plagiarism. Plus, it's very easy to use just copy/paste text in and click get report. This really should help students create more original pieces of work. Give PaperRater a ...

March Daily Writing Prompts!Check out the new daily writing prompts from Have Fun Teaching. These March theme daily writing prompts will help your kids to enjoy the writing process. Use these as daily writing prompts and daily journal prompts.Daily Writing Prompts - Click Here