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In this Issue:
Spelling Strategies: The Essential 3
Create a "While You Were Out" Station
Suggest Book Titles Using YourNextRead.com
Resource: Prefix Practice Materials
Book: Nonfiction Mentor Texts
Article: 20 Quick Tips for a Successful Writer's Workshop
Live Events: November 7th and November 22nd
Discussion Quotes
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Spelling Strategies: The Essential 3 Top Three Spelling Improvement Tips
1. Use Sitton's 1200 High Frequency Word List Have students learn the spellings of grade-appropriate words that appear on Sitton Spelling's Word Bank of 1200 High Frequency Writing Words. Here's why you should: "The first 25 words (on the attached list) are used in 33% of everyday writing, the first 100 words appear in 50% of adult and student writing, and the first 1,000 words are used in 89% of everyday writing." Download the1200 High Frequency Word List here.
2. Require 30 Minutes of Daily Independent Reading Time
Increase students' exposure to correctly-spelled, grade-level words by having them read for 30 minutes every day. Download a Silent Reading Response Sheet here.
3. Teach the 25 Indispensable Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
Study prefix, root and suffix word parts to unveil spelling and academic vocabulary secrets.
The 25 most common prefixes, roots or suffixes (listed below) appear in more than15,000 words. That is as many words as most student dictionaries contain. Have students learn "The
Indispensable 25." Then watch spelling skills (and vocabulary skills) improve dramatically.
The Indispensable 25:
Prefixes: anti, dis, trans, un, pre, re, super
Roots: audi, counter, dict, port, scribe, spect, struct, tract, uni
Suffixes: able/ible, ar, er/or, ful, graph, less, logue, pathy, y Download Reading Rocket's Prefix, Root, and Suffix Lists here. Sources: Sitton Spelling Sourcebook; author Steve Reifman; Pennington Publishing and Corwin Press |
 | | One Minute ELA Seminar Demo |
When Absent Students Return
Organizing Make-Up Assignments
Set up a While You Were Out Station so that when students miss your class, they can help themselves to missed assignments. Read the blog post - which includes a one minute video demo link - to get additional details and to download free kit materials.
Download free While You Were Out materials here. |
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Recommend the Perfect Book Help students find books they'll love reading.
This amazing site ( YourNextRead.com) asks each visitor to type in the title of a favorite book. A web of suggested titles - intended to provide that visitor with his or her "next" reading selection - will be generated instantly.
Click the image to try it for yourself. But be forewarned:
This site is addicting.
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Featured Prefix Product Prefix Practice for Upper Grades Visually-pleasing activities and super-easy bulletin board displays make learning and reviewing prefixes interesting for middle/secondary students. The 25 Prefixes included in this set are: ANTI, AQUA, ASTRO, AUTO, BI, DIS, FRAG, GEO, HYPER, IMAG, MAL, MEGA, MID, MIS, OVER, PRE, PYRO, QUAD, TELE, TRANS, TRI, RE, SUPER, UN, UNI. Available here.
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Featured Book Nonfiction Mentor Texts Lynne R. Dorfman and and Rose Cappelli include a number of projects, samples, and classroom anecdotes in their book that demonstrate how teachers can help students become more effective writers of nonfiction. One of the most valuable features of Nonfiction Mentor Texts is the "treasure chest" of books organized according to chapter.
Read chapter one online here.
Access the Amazon link to Nonfiction Mentor Texts here. |
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Article of Interest: 20 Quick Tips for a Successful Writer's Workshop Easy-to-Execute Writer's Notebook Strategies Check out this Writer's Workshop Tip Sheet posted by We Are Teachers:
" A blank page. A sharp pencil. A venue for wild thoughts and creative wonderings. What better way is there to foster a love of writing than to give students the opportunity to put pencil to paper on a regular basis? That's why we're such big fans of the idea of writer's workshop..." Read the entire post here or pin it to save for future reference.
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Live Events Using a Writer's Notebook to Teach Common Core State Standards Morning Workshop
Thursday, November 7th in Room 202 at the NJEA Convention (9:30-11:00)
Full Day Seminar
Friday, November 22nd (9:00-3:00) at The Southern Regional Institute (SRI) and Educational Technology Training Center (ETTC) on West Jimmie Leeds Road, Galloway, NJ 08205.
Call SRI & ETTC at 609.626.3862 or register here.
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Janice Malone, Owner of ELA Seminars, LLC
To book workshops, call or email:
609.652.6164
New Jersey school districts may use ETTC hours to book the following workshops:
Using a Writer's Notebook to Teach
Common Core State Standards
or
Pinterest:
A Professional Development Goldmine
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Discussion Quotes:
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
-E. B. White
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
Before you can do something that you've never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible.
-Jean Shinoda Bolen
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