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Volume 3, Issue 6
March 24, 2009
 
Cathy Puett Miller: A Three-Part Series on Read Alouds
A Shared Experience
Creating a read-aloud environment that’s a combination of enticing entertainment, skillful modeling of comprehension and thinking strategies, and just plan fun.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/miller/miller040.shtml
Glimpses Into Read-Aloud Classrooms
Merely inviting students to contribute verbally when you read aloud to them isn't enough. Take it to a higher level with analytical talk.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/miller/miller041.shtml
Tying Read Alouds to Standards
This list of suggested activities and strategies will help you make every read aloud count, and assure your principal that you are focused on meeting standards.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/miller/miller042.shtml
Missing Numbers
Solve each puzzle to find the missing numbers. Can you figure out the secret about this puzzle's solution?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/math/go_figure/go_figure013.shtml
Ask Dr. Shore About...
A Student With Hearing Loss
A girl in my fourth-grade class has a hearing impairment. Besides seating her in the front of the room, what can I do to make sure she hears and understands what I am saying?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/shore/shore108.shtml
A Writing Template
myPhone
You've heard of iPhone? This week, Education World introduces myPhone, a writing template that's sure to engage and motivate students.
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/myphone.doc
Rainforest Rescue
It's important that our youth understand the impact of rainforest destruction and become part of the solution. The Earth Foundation project is one way they can do that.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev159.shtml
 Leah Davies: The Teacher Counselor
Solutions Through Peer Mediation
Peer mediation programs offer schools an alternative to traditional disciplinary practices. The goal of such programs is to reduce conflict and provide children with problem-solving skills.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/davies/davies010.shtml
Eric Baylin's Songs to Brighten a Teacher's Day
I've Grown Accustomed to the Stress
Do you often feel at this time of year as though your professional life is spiraling out of control? So much to do; so little time! What will you do? You could sing.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/baylin/baylin005.shtml
Emma McDonald: The New Teacher Advisor
Being a Team Player: Collaboration With Colleagues
The days of closing the classroom door and creating a self-contained world are over. Today’s students need more than just one person to guide their education -- they need a team.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/mcdonald/mcdonald014.shtml
Managing the Quagmire of Disillusion
One of the best pieces of advice I got before entering the classroom for the first time was given by my high school science teacher. She said, "Give teaching at least two full years before you even consider quitting. No matter what happens or how awful you feel, don't quit until you've finished your second year."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/mcdonald/mcdonald015.shtml
Dr. Fred Jones: Tools for Teaching
Tools for Teaching Implements PBIS: Level 1
The objective of Tools for Teaching is identical to that of PBIS. Both seek to develop and implement effective discipline practices.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones037.shtml
Tools for Teaching Implements PBIS: Level 2
PBIS defines secondary prevention largely in terms of individualized behavior management programs to eliminate persistent problems or group interventions to teach social skills.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones038.shtml
Angela Powell: Getting It Together
Organize Reading Materials by Story
A great way to keep reading materials easily accessible is to invest in enough 3-drawer organizers to have one drawer for each story in the reading series.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/organization/organization030.shtml
Organize Math Materials by Chapter
Keep all your centers, games, manipulatives, and photo copies for math in one place.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/organization/organization031.shtml
 Each week, Education World spotlights books of interest to educators. This week, read a brief summary of two more of our "top 50 books for educators."
The Morning Meeting Book
A very practical book -- step-by-step guidelines for implementing a morning meeting in any K-8 classroom; 45 greetings; 66 group activities; and ideas for adapting the morning meeting idea to classes with a lot of second-language learners. The essential concept is to make everyone feel that it matters that he or she is in school -- including the teacher! This books comes from the folks behind the Responsive Classroom approach to teaching.
Click to learn more or to purchase this book.
Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School
First published in 1984, this is Theodore Sizer's eloquent call to arms for school reform. In a new preface, Sizer addresses encouraging movements to create better schools, reduce class size, and improve assessment and teaching, but also points out that many of the problems that plague the American high school have remained the same over the last quarter century. This is one of the field's modern classics, and no education library is complete without it.
 Click to learn more or to purchase this book.
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Reader's Theater
Snack Attack
Siblings encounter some talkative produce that persuades them to choose fresh, healthy snack alternatives.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/reading/ReadersTheater/ReadersTheater026.shtml
Dancing With the Nursery Rhyme Stars
Nursery rhyme characters face off in the final round of a dance contest. It's a battle of fancy footwork as contestants vie for a pot of gold.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/reading/ReadersTheater/ReadersTheater008.shtml
Reading Tips
Our Favorite Books
Encourage students to reflect on their reading with five of our favorite "favorite books" activities.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/reading/tips/tips007.shtml
From the Reading Machine
2Bee or Nottoobee
Pick the perfect posy with the proper verb to fit into each sentence, and 2Bee will get a flower.(Grades 1-4)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/readingmachine/readingmachine021.shtml
Super Readers Challenge
Join forces with the expert readers of "SUPER WHY!" from PBS to solve challenges and earn super letters.(preK-2)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/readingmachine/readingmachine023.shtml
 Best Books for Teaching About…
Each week, Education World presents our Editors’ Choices for the best books for teaching about popular classroom themes. Check out our choices and add your own.
Best Books for Teaching About...
Eggs
Music
Spring
April Fools
http://www.educationworld.com/a_bestbooks/archives/students.shtml
Total Reader
How Cool Is That!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev149.shtml
From the Writing Center
Understanding and Teaching Revision
Revision is the second most important part of writing (after the idea). Revising denotes stepping back and looking at content…removing a perfectly good sentence because it doesn’t belong, adding details or clarification, tightening language…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/miller/miller020.shtml
Strategies for Teaching Editing
What we must keep in mind at all times, as author and editor Arthur Plotnik reminds us, is "We write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside. We edit to let the fire show through the smoke."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/miller/miller021.shtml
Writing Lessons
Basketball for Better Verse
Celebrating March Madness: Students write poems about basketball.
(Grades 3-12)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/05-1/lesson021.shtml
Stir Up a Character Analysis Recipe
Stir up character analysis “recipes” for characters in literature/history.
(Grades 3-12)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/05-1/lesson021.shtml
My Alphabetical Autobiography
Challenge students to create A to Z autobiographies.
(Grades K-12)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/05-1/lesson017.shtml
Interview Famous Leaders in History
Create a realistic interview with a world leader.
(Grades 3-12)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/05-1/lesson005.shtml
April Fool
Think up an April Fool’s tale so tall…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/writing_bug/writingbug032.shtml
A Book Is Like a Garden
What does this proverb about a book mean to you?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/writing_bug/writingbug036.shtml
Springtime Storm
Use all your senses to describe a spring storm.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/writing_bug/writingbug034.shtml
Tune In or Turn Off
What if your parents turned off the TV for good?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/writing_bug/writingbug035.shtml
 The Crazy Pattern Machine
Students examine a group of letters, shapes, colors, or numbers and click an item to complete the pattern. (Grades K-3)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/mathmachine/mathmachine022.shtml
Buggin' Out
In this problem-solving game, students create a safe pathway for a friendly bug.
(Grades 1-4)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/mathmachine/mathmachine023.shtml
Math Features
Math and Literature
If you're looking for a way to add relevancy to your math activities, the answer may be in your school library. Literature is the ideal vehicle to help students see the importance of numbers in their lives.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr249.shtml
Mathnasium Offers Workout for the Mind
The Mathnasium Method of math instruction focuses on helping children develop an intuitive idea of how numbers work and learning how to do math mentally.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/chat238.shtml
Math Mnemonics
Multiplying With Negatives
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/mnemonics/mnemonics030.shtml
Solving Word Problems
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/mnemonics/mnemonics031.shtml
Featured Articles
Cantelope Instead of Cupcakes? Believe It!
“Nutrition can't be a unit; it has to be ongoing." Those are the words of Sabina M. Mosso, who teaches preschoolers and kindergartners at Anna Boyd Child Development Center in Columbia, South Carolina.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr206.shtml
A Feast of Nutrition Ideas on the Internet
If you're looking for "fresh" ideas to squeeze into your classroom nutrition lessons, you'll find a "feast" of ideas on the Internet.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr061.shtml
Grow a Garden of Opportunity
Classroom gardens, whether outside or indoors, provide the perfect opportunity to bring life to lessons in science, history, math -- even poetry.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr063.shtml
Classroom Management Articles
Teachers Share Tips for Cooperative Learning
Cooperation starts at the top. Teachers who use cooperative learning in their classrooms have developed techniques that make the most of this method, and they share them.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr287.shtml
 Cooperative Learning Saves the Day
Three of Dr. Theodore Panitz's favorite cooperative-learning activities and links to his cooperative-learning resources on the Web.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr287a.shtml
Helping Students Find the "Write" Way to Behave
Having students write about their misbehavior, why it occurred, and what they are going to do to correct it is valuable for students and teachers.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev001.shtml
Learning Takes Center Stage in Second Grade Opera Company
Celebrate Music in Our Schools Month with a visit to a dynamic teaching team in a classroom with opera at its center.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev133.shtml
Strategies That Work
Interest Fairs
More flexible than a Science Fair or a Social Studies Fair, an "Interest Fair" taps all subjects and students' interests.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy035.shtml
Looping
 Looping is a phenomenon that's growing in popularity. What are the benefits and disadvantages and looping?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy014.shtml
Tips Library
Classroom Management: "Meet" the Students
Behavior Management: Behavior Conference, Secret Student
Motivating Kids: Invite Business Owners to Visit
Book Report Makeover: Before and After
Homework Tips: Homework Island
Best Idea Ever: Reduce Stress With Humor
Testing Tips: Stress Less
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/management_tips/management_tips030.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/behaviortips/behaviortips030.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bookreport/bookreport030.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/homeworktips/homeworktips030.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bestidea/bestidea030.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/testing/testing030.shtml
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Miguel Guhlin: The IT Crowd
Moodle-izing Your Education Enterprise
Moodle is one of those technologies that can transform how you handle online professional development and student learning.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/guhlin/guhlin012.shtml
 Mr. Ivan: The Principal Poet
Education World's Principal Poet presents this week’s poem, “The Big Test.”
When teacher said, "There'll be a test"
My stomach did a flip.
"The test will be tomorrow."
My mind began to slip…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/ivan/index.shtml
Larry Bell's Somebody Needs You!
Helping At-Promise Students Achieve
The best way I know to get enthusiasm from somebody else is to model it -- whether you're always feeling it or not.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/bell/bell001.shtml
Pete Hall’s Always Strive to Be a Better You
Hope Ain't a Strategy
As a noun, hope is a beautiful thing. Hope is the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. But hope ain’t a strategy for improving schools.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/hall/hall033.shtml
 Paul Young’s Young @ Heart
Stop, Look, and Listen
Slow down and really stop, look, and listen to the sounds in your school hallways. You will learn far more in those moments than from almost anything else you do.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/young/index.shtml
 Alma Row's Gadgets of the Week
jumpcut
Upload video and edit it with Yahoo!’s jumpcut.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/gadget/gadget028.shtml
Cameroid
Cameroid is a fun site for manipulating pictures taken with a webcam.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/gadget/gadget029.shtml
Featured Article
Teachers Spearhead School Improvement
Teachers at one Rhode Island elementary school are spearheading school-wide improvement. Principal Victor Ventura “guides” the improvements, but the teachers’ energy and commitment are making it happen. Included: Eight ingredients to success.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin558.shtml
 Partners for Student Success
Students Produce Must-See TV
Students at one Pennsylvania elementary school keep families and the community “in the know” about school events by producing video segments that they upload to the Teacher Tube Web site. Crew members at the K-4 school storyboard and film each segment.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/partners/partners049.shtml
 Wire Side Chat
Helping Schools Promote Fitness, Healthful Diets
Spurred by a government report about the effects of overeating and inactivity among children, education and health officials formed Action for Healthy Kids, a group that works with schools to promote more healthful lifestyles.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/chat175.shtml
Featured Site Reviews
 The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project
A big archive of public domain children's literature.
Kids Off the Couch
Weekly ideas for getting kids to be more active.
Plastic Fork Diaries
Fun focus on food in the form of an online TV serial.
American Field Guide
A wilderness experience through video clips and lessons.
Giggle Poetry
A resource for young poets featuring the poetry of Bruce Lansky and other children's poets.
Climate Discovery Teacher's Guide
Climate-related materials and lessons specifically for grades 5-9.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/index.shtml
Be sure to explore our Site Review Archives for more great sites. You also can keep up with our latest reviews by signing up for our Site Review Newsletter. This free weekly newsletter brings you up to date by presenting links to all new reviews posted in our Site Review archive. Click here to sign up now!
Early Childhood Center
 * Rhyme Time
This week's poem for Early Childhood educators:
More Peas, Please (Nutrition Month)
Seeds in Spring
* Early Childhood Teaching Themes
Spring Weather
Use these ideas to "spring” into more learning fun.
Nutrition
Hands-on activities, literature, much more.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_earlychildhood/newsletters/
Videos of the Week
Dealing With Challenging Behavior
Tips to help teachers in deal with challenging behavior.
Men in Black
"Men in Black" create enthusiasm for standardized testing.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/videooftheweek.shtml
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