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From Read 2 Rap: Moving From Words On A Page To Standing On Stage, Nate Whitsett
From Read 2 Rap: Moving From Words On A Page To Standing On Stage, Nate Whitsett
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
Creativity will abound in your classroom as you tap into your students’ hidden talents. Learn how to use Rap, Rhyme & Poetry to teach Key vocabulary in Reading, Writing and Performance Arts Education. Teachers at all levels can benefit from seeing how enjoyable teaching is when students are actively engaged in the learning process.
Story Squad: Connecting Books, Standards, And Literature Circles, Leslie Cowell
Story Squad: Connecting Books, Standards, And Literature Circles, Leslie Cowell
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
Story Squad was developed after experiencing the use of Literature Circles in a fourth grade classroom. Students enjoyed the idea, but the jobs themselves and process were not engaging. Story Squad presents roles for connecting to literature after giving students “a mission” to solve. Roles expand past the traditional Literature Circle roles and directly connect to state standards. Can be used and adapted for 3-8th grade.
Read, Write, Rhyme: Increasing Reading Performance With Hip-Hop Texts, Crystal Monique Lavoulle
Read, Write, Rhyme: Increasing Reading Performance With Hip-Hop Texts, Crystal Monique Lavoulle
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
This presentation describes the Harlem Renaissance to Hip Hop Movement, a literacy program that uses best practices in literacy instruction to improve reading comprehension, critical thinking, and writing. Moving beyond educational hip-hop songs and videos, this presentation offers insight into effective ways to increase Georgia Milestone Assessment scores in both English language arts and social studies using a variety of hip-hop texts.
Books And The Big Screen: The Book Is Always Better, Sheri A. Brown, Samantha Ertenberg
Books And The Big Screen: The Book Is Always Better, Sheri A. Brown, Samantha Ertenberg
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
What happens when an English professor and a librarian share their love of books and reading? A campus book club is born. Many students associate reading with what happens in the classroom or studying towards a specific goal. They don’t see the power of reading for enjoyment, entertainment, and pleasure. Stephen Krushen, in The Power of Reading, defines free voluntary reading (FVR), as “reading because you want to: no book reports, no questions at the end of the chapter. In FVR you don’t have to finish the book if you don’t like it. FVR is the kind of reading …
Reading And Math Strategies For Struggling Students, Tonya Hiers, Arlene Berry, Kim Trepanier
Reading And Math Strategies For Struggling Students, Tonya Hiers, Arlene Berry, Kim Trepanier
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
This presentation will provide Common Core based strategies for teachers to use with students at risk of failure. Participants will engage in tasks that will allow them to experience Close reading, constructed response, and math problem solving. These cross curricular strategies will address literary, informational, and problem solving standards.