Session Four Language Arts & Social Studies

If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. -Africa American Proverb

Share the strategies you applied in your classrooms with your table. Interactive Math Journaling

Today we will…  Integrating Technology Ideas and Links  Language Arts- strategies  Talking Chips  Gallery Walk  Social Studies  Writing to Learn  Writing to Demonstrate Knowledge  Make a Plan to Try it and Apply it!

Integration of Technology Writing Across the Curriculum Ideas and Links

Ideas & Content – for idea development – for kid centered activities – PowerPoint Silent Timer for Brainstorming or 3-minute fast write, etc. PowerPoint Silent Timer – Harcourt’s – offers some great ideas--check this one out!

Organization – …Organizational ideas: purposeful paragraphs, etc. –On-line Essay MappingOn-line Essay Mapping – one click stop for graphic organizers – Story Mapping Assistance On-Line

Word Choice –Word Choice at the – Text Analyzer Feature –Word Choice at the O nline W riting L abWord Choice – Free On-line Thesaurus, Think-Map VisualThink-Map Visual

Voice – Voice Section: – Use Great Speeches: History Channel Great Speeches linkGreat Speeches: –Use (it is free for Mac and Win) Sound Companion, etc. to read your writing into the computer and “play it back” listen for your voice.

Sentence Fluency – Sentence Fluency at – Sentence Fluency at the O nline W riting L ab Sentence Fluency

Conventions – Conventions: –Free Rubric Creator: Teachers select from a wide variety of options to create a customized rubric for any writing project.Free Rubric Creator: – –Project Based Learning: Create printable checklists customized for any writing project.

Strategies for Language Arts  Writing to Learn Strategies  STRATEGY: Anticipation Guides  STRATEGY: Before, During, and After Interactive Notes  STRATEGY: Column Notes T-chart Fact or opinion Chapters/Selection Chart Q-Notes

Strategies for Language Arts  STRATEGY: Concept/Vocabulary Expansion Define Conceptual Terms Descriptions for Different Purposes Possible Sentences LINK: List-Inquire-Note-Know  STRATEGY: Compare/Contrast Compare and Contrast Organizers Venn Diagram Metaphorical Thinking

 STRATEGY: Credibility of a Source  STRATEGY: FQIP: Focus, Questions, Image, Predict  STRATEGY: Inquiry Charts  I Charts  KWLH Inquiry  STRATEGY: CRAFTS: Context, Role, Audience, Format, Topic, and Strong Verb  STRATEGY: Consolidating Thought  Summarizing  Synthesizing  Inferring  Discussion Web Strategies for Language Arts

 STRATEGY: Main Idea  Main Idea and Supporting Details Graphic Organizer  Spider Map  Cerebral Chart  STRATEGY: Idea Funnel  STRATEGY: Journaling  Dialectical Journal  Double Entry Journal/ Learning Log  Meta-Cognitive/Reflective Journal  Synthesis Journal Strategies for Language Arts

 STRATEGY: Predict-O-Gram Writing  STRATEGY: Understanding Story  Writing from the narrative frame  Narrative organizer: Story Map  Linear Array Story Organizer  STRATEGY: Previewing and Generating Text Purposes  Previewing Text  Inform-Entertain-Persuade  Checking out the Framework  SOAPS (Subject, Occasion-Audience-Purpose-Speaker) Strategies for Language Arts

 STRATEGY: Visualizing and Recording Mental Images  STRATEGY: Write-Pair-Share-Write  STRATEGY: Cause-Effect  Cause and Effect organizer(s)  Fishbone map Strategies for Language Arts

Try it and Apply it!  Adopt practices of Highly Effective Teachers  Engage in professional conversation with your colleagues about effective writing practices.  Read books and journal articles about writing and teaching.  Demonstrate writing by thinking aloud and writing in front of your students  Share with students the writing you do outside school: ask them to do the same.  Examine and evaluate student writing samples at your grade level meeting.  Observe other teachers’ writing classrooms, at your grade level and across grade levels.  Conference with students about their writing.