A NIGHT DIVIDED is FREE on audio this week, thanks to @audiobookSYNC and read by the brilliant @KateSimses. Midnight Sunday EST, everyone who RTs this will be entered for an arc of my next historical, WORDS ON FIRE (10/19)! https://t.co/dNuJ1O9Y0h
In #Room407 today. . .as a last day activity, I pulled picture books specifically for each student and gave them a note card. They wrote the MLA citation of the book and then wrote why they thought I selected the book for them to read. This HAS to be a new tradition for the room.
Seth Godin reminds me off the science of reading movement β a growing mob of non educators spouting OPINION devoid of research support or knowledge
"...they fear the truth. And being part of a mob is a good way to hide from that fear.β
#g2great
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If you teach History/Social Science, this is a resource you need to bookmark. Primary sources make an immediate and emotional impact on our students as a window into the past. Here is one amazing database of #Holocaust personal documents and artifacts. https://t.co/KQZNVX9126
Want students to remember something? Ask them to draw it! Research shows that drawing boosts learning by forcing us to process information in multiple ways: visually, kinesthetically, and linguistically.