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Apr
25
College and Career Readiness (CCR) Standards for Adult Education. The work is the result of a nine-month process that examined the Common Core State Standards from the perspective of adult education. It was funded to provide a set of manageable yet significant CCR standards that reflect broad agreement among subject matter experts in adult education about what is desirable for adult students to know to be prepared for the rigors of postsecondary education and training.
The report written by Susan Pimentel, prepared by MPR, Associates, Inc, for the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education.
It is available by clicking this link:
http://lincs.ed.gov/publications/pdf/CCRStandardsAdultEd.pdf
Apr
24
Tomorrow is Poem in Your Pocket Day: April 26 The idea is simple: select a poem you love during National Poetry Month then carry it with you to share with classmates, family, and friends.
~~~The Children’s Poetry Archive is a great Search portal with archives of favorite poets and poems
You can also share your poem selection on Twitter by using the hashtag #pocketpoem.
Also fun is this idea for list poems…seamlessly easy for integrating into any curriculum!
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Apr
23
Data/Informatics is everywhere and extrapolating it and analyzing it offers great inquiry learning opportunities in the classroom.
Robin Good shared nine, free infographic creation tools that can be utilized to create enticing visuals, word charts and data-based infographics without having any special technical skills. See the full list by clicking here.
Apr
19
Learn a new poem during National Poetry Month! Poems by Heart from Penguin Classics teaches poem memorization.
Poems by Heart offers two free poems. Additional options available through in app purchases. Whether you’re teaching fluency, extending a biography project of a famous poet, or just celebrating great works – let your fingers do the clicking to Poems by Heart for a poem to memorize!
Great Download~~Poetry Review Worksheet
So Fun~~Create your own Magnetic Poetry Project
20 Terrific Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month by Minds-in-bloom
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Additional posts relating to National Poetry Month
Apr
17
The Newspaper Clipping Generator is a vintage favorite for delivering personalized content in snippets.
Check it out: http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp
Fill in four text fields and click “Generate” to reveal your image clipping. Please do not use students’ names or personal identifiers or actual newspaper names. To download your newspaper clipping, use the link at the bottom of the generated image. You can publish your image on your own website or blog. Direct linking to the newspaper clippings doesn’t work; the images are deleted from the server after a short time span. The sample above is for my online science course.
Apr
16
This official National Poetry Month poster was designed by graphic artist Jessica Helfand. She was selected to create the poster by the acclaimed designer Chip Kidd.
Request a free poster for April 2013 >
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Previous Posts for National Poetry Month
Apr
15
What’s New for K-2 Language Arts Apps
Storia This Scholastic e-reader app is designed just for kids. Books are embedded with questions, learning activities, and pop-up dictionary definitions. The app download comes with five free books; additional books can be purchased and added to a student’s bookshelf. iOS and Android. Free.
Super Why! Jessica Millberg, school library media specialist at Central Early Childhood Center in Deptford, New Jersey, loves to use Super Why! with kindergartners and first graders. “It’s easy to navigate for little hands and it addresses rhyming words, letter identification, spelling, word building, and sentence completion,” she says. iOS and Android. $2.99.
Apr
13
I like a destination which pulls
true, deliberate,
but at great distance. ~Bruce Willard, Great Plains Poem
Read the entire poem, Great Plains
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