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In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine our growing waste problem and learn about strategies we can use to lessen the strain on our landfills and Earth's natural resources: reduce, reuse, recycle.
This resource is a unit that integrates the ELA skills of vignette writing, formal interviewing skills, presentation skills, and technology. Instructional slides are includes as well as other resources to support this unit.
Adult English language learner classrooms are uniquely diverse, in that a single class can have young adults, grandparents, academics, factory workers, entrepreneurs, and new parents all learning together in one room or on one Zoom call. Cultures blend, clash, and work around each other as students learn grammar, spelling, and pronunciation. Those of us who are instructors in these programs are blessed to be able to experience firsthand the diversity and complexity that is America. Through this book, we hope to offer a glimpse of who we get to work with every day – immigrants telling their own stories in their own words. -- from Introduction.Original Verso information:Hedenstrom, A., Himanga, L, Sorenson, L., Housworth, J., & Bryan, S. (Eds.). (2023).Voices of the Valley by Chippewa Valley Technical College is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.Digital ISBN: 978-1-957068-08-4 | Print ISBN: 978-1-957068-07-7
Adult English language learner classrooms are uniquely diverse, in that a single class can have young adults, grandparents, academics, factory workers, entrepreneurs, and new parents all learning together in one room or on one Zoom call. Cultures blend, clash, and work around each other as students learn grammar, spelling, and pronunciation. Those of us who are instructors in these programs are blessed to be able to experience firsthand the diversity and complexity that is America. Through this book, we hope to offer a glimpse of who we get to work with every day – immigrants telling their own stories in their own words. -- from Introduction.Original Verso information:Hedenstrom, A., Himanga, L, Sorenson, L., Housworth, J., & Bryan, S. (Eds.). (2023).Voices of the Valley by Chippewa Valley TechnicalCollege is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.Digital ISBN: 978-1-957068-08-4 | Print ISBN: 978-1-957068-07-7
Students analyze the elements of a novel in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Websites.
This resource can be used to teach figurative language. It includes simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, and idioms. A definition and several examples are included.
This is a basic research lesson to give students an opportunity to learn some basic information about Wisconsin Indian Tribes. For more in depth research, this lesson can be added to or changed.
Students will get and introduction to the concepts of digraphs; specifically the:sh,th,ch,ph & wh sounds.
This presentation was given to Middle School writing teachers to help share the "why" behind the need to move to a new curricular resource in writing. This was a springboard for conversation around best practice for writing instruction and assessment.
eComma is a social reading tool teachers can install in their Learning Management System (LMS). It allows students and teachers to read and annotate texts together, pooling their knowledge and perspectives for a deeper understanding and analysis of what they are reading. The eComma website linked here explains how to explain the tool in an LMS and has a user guide and case studies with ideas for how to use it in a class.