Transform your students' television time to vocabulary time by having them tune in to these PBS show sites developed to enrich their word knowledge.
Topic : Young readersTransform your students' television time to vocabulary time by having them tune in to these PBS show sites developed to enrich their word knowledge. Article Topics:Here are some great online resources for getting children interested in poetry. Article Topics:Marvin Terban gets kids laughing (and learning) about language with these illustrated books of funny idioms. Article Topics:Teachers at WorkA column about teachingThe Teenagers, the Teacher, The Old Man and the Sea: Hemingway's Classic in Your Classroom November 24, 2008 By Shannon Reed
True confession time: I'd never read Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Old Man and the Sea until a couple of weeks ago, for this column. Yeesh, I know, I know, and I'm sorry. Walk away from this column if you must, convinced I'm not qualified to give you any advice for your ELA classroom. I wouldn't blame you. All I can say is that the high school I went to didn't have a cracker-jack curriculum, and, um, I hate fish. I really do. I have a phobia about all creatures of the sea, actually, and fish aren't even my most dreaded. Let's put it this way: if the book was titled The Old Man and the Squid, this column would be about a Jane Austen book.
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Article Topics:Here are some great online resources for getting children interested in poetry. Article Topics:Here are some wonderful blogs about getting kids interested in literature. Article Topics:Teachers at WorkA column about teachingIt Might Make Time Fly in Your Classroom: "Tuck Everlasting" October 20, 2008 By Shannon Reed
There's a little sticker reading "Sci-fi/Fantasy" on the cover of my library copy of Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting. Well. I guess this novel, about the inadvertently-immortal family the Tucks, and their run-in with the mortal human world, is a fantasy, but only in the same way Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Green Gables are fantasies. For my beloved little Tuck creates and populates a world — in this case, a small town in the 1880s called "Treegap" — just as surely as those classics do, without aliens, space travel or weird people in trench coats lurking around. I hate to see this gem of a novel get brushed off to a genre audience, for it has much to teach classrooms of young adults.
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