MsDomiano

📚2x Buckeye, M.A. Ed Middle Childhood Ed: Reading & Math📓📊 Naples,FL via Columbus, OH 🤓🍏❤️ 2018 Teacher of Distinction 🌟 Grades 6&7 ELA @ CMS 🐛

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🏟Missing my warm sunny, beach and castle in Columbus! Get me out of here!! I’d rather be in ISS!! 🤮🏃🏽‍♀️💨 Spending break working on my spelling (O-H-I-O) and analyzing multiple perspectives/ the counter claim, AKA Ann Arbor AM radio

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Twins on accident, rivals on purpose! 👯‍♀️She likes Michigan, I like the Bucks, at least we can agree on the Hawks! All smiles on this sunny Tuesday!! Go get em! @cms_carter @CorkscrewMiddle

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@SaraBarry2017 @CorkscrewMiddle Eye spy mi estudiante!!! Como se dice YAY!!??

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Teamwork makes the...alternate ending dream work! AND NO—it was NOT all just a dream! Can’t wait to see the final cuts of our stop-motion animation endings of #howtherunshouldend #therun @ReadWorks

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Meanwhile, we’ve got bookwork (“In the Spotlight” and “Big Things Come in Small Packages”) and choice vocab review.

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We’re calling this a reverse, revolving door, work in progress essay. First we elaborate, then we connect evidence from each piece we’ve read. Too often we get stuck going from evidence>elaboration and not the other way around!

Can’t wait to see the GP4 version of these!!

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This quarter we’ve been digging deep to evaluate what it means to be an effective leader vs follower. When and what in life do we have to give and take? This week we’re piecing it all together!

Shouldn’t we TAKE time to notice and listen? GIVE someone a second chance?

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Test scores aren't everything.

The good news for these prospective undergraduates is that a number of colleges in the U.S. have embraced test-flexible admissions policies. https://t.co/CinpNbT0Ti

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As you can see, that’s the beauty of teaching split grades! HMH isn’t really going anywhere, so establishing these high-quality standards and understanding of what the task behind the question is actually wanting you to do will hopefully stick! Good work everyone! 🤓

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Using the 7th graders’ work as a guide, check out grade 6 with the textbooks’s “Fears and Phobias” piece. These 6 questions are more traditional. Periods 4-5 also chose a content based approach while 6-7 gave 2 points per question extra for spelling/grammar.

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Check out the final product! You’re left with a stack of first attempt graded papers, students know live how they did, and students feel the grading was fair. This class chose to turn off spelling/grammar eyes and instead focus more on the content of the answer.

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After finalizing the rubrics, go around and self-grade. We’ll fix these up on Friday during finish up/fix up, but with more practice we’ll learn what to include the first time around. ELA has many unwritten rules! Let’s create go-to strategies we can rely on when it’s unclear.

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For this assignment, we divided into 6 groups for 6 questions. After each group decides the criteria, we went around to balance the point values. Shouldn’t a task like citing evidence have more points up for grabs than say, underlining a detail? Circling something?

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Check out how our 7th graders decided what was and wasn’t important when grading the close reader. Honestly! How many details is enough? What sets of eyes should we turn on and off for this assignment? What’s more important: WHAT you wrote or HOW you wrote it?

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Kids hate getting work back 5 years later just as much as we hate spending 5 years to grade it! Plus, ELA is not a one size fits all kind of answer! We’re trying a new system of stumping the experts to pick apart what each question is actually asking you to do for “full” credit⬆️

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‼️⚠️Forget Writer’s Workshop Wednesday, it’s more like... HEY YOU, WAKE UP WEDNESDAY!! The end of Q1 is not as far away as you think; are you here to be here or are you here to SHOW UP? 😬😳👀 We have a funky finish with testing, another holiday, and short weekS!

Let’s go!!📆💨

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Couldn’t wait to share this with my kiddos! @MarkChubb3 They loved it so much they wanted to make their own! Block “O” and jellyfish creations

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🕸🕷What do you call it when you’re literally brushing the dust off the good old close readers to prep for Arachne, and a daddy long leg crawls out from behind the stack?👀🤷🏽‍♀️🧟‍♂️

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Writer’s Workshop Wednesday! Writing folder evidence review, CPALMS central idea tutorial, and central idea task cards! 🔍💻📋

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👋🏽Meet Destiny! Destiny created a bi-weekly poetry slam for our Cambridge class🎤She put extra thought behind the implementation so everyone has a safe space to share anonymously or take pride in their work. A great friend to all and a creative asset to our classroom community!!