MiddleWeb Quick Links
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Get Your Students Blogging!
Blogging is essential in Pernille Ripp's classroom. "It’s a way to check their emotional temperature & for them to talk to the world." Here's her 10-step process.
20 CCSS Literacy Strategies
Reviewer Anne Anderson recommends these research-based strategies designed to grow readers & thinkers inside a Common Core framework.
Telling Media-Rich Tales
This 2010 Guide for Educators can help teachers start to explore digital storytelling as a powerful instructional strategy, says teacher-reviewer Kevin Hodgson.
Teacher-Driven Observation
When teachers design their own observations, colleagues can help them zero in on key questions and gather helpful data to improve practice.
Class Fiction: History+Mystery!
Historical mysteries that lure reluctant readers & boost comprehension are great for classroom libraries, says teacher-author Elizabeth Varadon.
STEM Summer Activities!
Anne Jolly is campaigning for a STEM summer in which kids ask questions, seek answers, & design solutions to problems. She has 9 ideas for parents & others.
The WOW Factor App
A new web tool, designed just for education, can help promote student creativity and innovative thinking, says ed consultant & former MS teacher Mike Fisher.
Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons
SpEd teacher Danielle McIntosh recommends these 22 mini-lessons with adaptations for struggling and advanced writers & English learners.