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The Classroom
Literature
Circles: A Support Document for Grades 3 to 10
is a product
of the Toronto Catholic District School board and the work of Myra Junyk, who
offers here sample contents from the work. (posted
January 2004)
The
Annotated List of Board-Generated Literacy Documents
was
compiled by York Region for the Toronto and District Council. Teachers and support
personnel will find it an irreplaceable reference to projects supporting literacy
instruction.
(December 2003)
Supporting
the Struggling Reader
(Resources for the Struggling Teacher) - a
report from the February 21 meeting of ELAN on members' favorite resources for
students at risk.
Keeping
it Simple
Implementation
of dozens of expectations can be made more manageable through the use of a few
rubrics . (May
2002)
Reading
Matters: Texts Are At The Center Of Success
Ever
heard it said that Secondary teachers don't know how to teach reading? Read
Ian Esquivel, and re-consider.
(May
2002)
Training
the Future Leaders of Media Education
Barry
Duncan describes the resurgence of a Media Education AQ course at York University
and some of the exciting results. (March
2002)
Apple's
IMovie makes a big impression in the classroom (PDF file).
This review
of Apple's digital video editing suite (by Don Jones, Elementary Instructional
Consultant with Halton) will interest teachers searching for new approaches
to Media Education in the elementary classroom. (March
2002)
Levels
of Critical Insight in 16-year-old Students.
A
report on research done by Chris Worsnop and Dr. Alexander Federov, with a resulting
"scale" for describing student responses to media texts. (November
18, 2001)
An
Invitation to link with new Web Awareness Discussion forums (May
20, 2001)
A
report on the OTF Summer Institutes for August 2001
(May 5,
2001)
The
Grade 10 Test of Reading and Writing: Whose "Thing" is it?
Two teachers in charge
of their school literacy team outline their proactive approach to facing the
Grade 10 Literacy Test. (March
2001)
Experiencing
Poetry
A proposed
method for moving seamlessly between first responses and final critical insights
in the study of poetry. (March
2001)
If you
loved Harvey Daniel's Literature Circles, you'll love this
addition
by Diana Knight from Halton.
(February
2001)
Can
rubrics make your exam marking easier?
Suppose
the exam is a kind of portfolio of different types of reading and writing. Would
this rubric do the trick?
(January
2001)