WGRESA's ELA Teacher Tools and Resources Group 💻

West Georgia RESA loves its ELA teachers! Follow along for our favorite ELA tools and resources. Posts by Dr. Barbara Bishop, Assistant Director, WGRESA.

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Join me for "Building Academic Vocabulary"! An engaging and useful session designed to give you new insight, new strategies, and new resources for K-12 vocabulary development.
https://t.co/GF69oEUWdc

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West Georgia RESA congratulates our Georgia Young Authors regional grade level winners! Thank you school and teacher leaders for promoting writing!
https://t.co/kuWv16vb51

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TEACHERS! Learn from top scholars and visit the historic sites on the Trail of Tears: Reinhardt University's National Endowment for the Humanities Trail of Tears workshop. Deadline 3/1! https://t.co/W0AQNLZPr2 #TrailofTears #NEH #Landmarks #Teachers

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What a great teacher reminder. The comprehension we receive is only as deep as the comprehension we expect which is only as deep as the question/products we request.

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Make sure students know the truth. Writing is re-writing. (1880, Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" manuscript).

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Here's a colorful take on annotation. With color-coding guidelines, students can analyze a text by changing the font color (or old school highlighting) specific sections of text that accomplish a particular purpose. Example explanation: https://t.co/FVysyLJGpd

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Reminded today of https://t.co/XmOAmC8z7K where students can create timelines like this one showing events in The Crucible: https://t.co/x84jTatzGY

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Logged into Canva (free educator account), searched for worksheets, found this one, downloaded it for most students, easily changed a few questions to scaffold for a few other readers, downloaded the new one too. Saved both to Google Drive. 5 minutes. Boom! Differentiation.

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Teaching students to identify logical fallacies in arguments? Gotta have https://t.co/NPfHtxFnft for examples of the thinking pitfalls that argument writers need to avoid and argument readers need to be wary of.

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https://t.co/cPIrBziAkS is by far the easiest speech to text tool I've found. Fun to use for dictation, spelling, composition, etc... It's great to have students speak their essay and then edit what they said rather than start from that blinding white piece of paper!

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Having some fun with https://t.co/55Tbzz4TNX
Added url of an article, - the AI put a shorter summary out to the side. This can be useful as a time-saver, but also great to ask students to compare the summary to the original. What is lost in the translation to the short summary?

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Your students have a lot to say and perspectives that matter. They can share with the world through the New York Times Student Opinion Question Feature. https://t.co/VDB4DQwrHP

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@c_sturgeon @DSHensleyEDU That's awesome! Great job.

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Do your students take too long finding images for presentations? Do they get lost in The Google when they just need an icon or photo? Start them at https://t.co/mkEAw4T78A for a quick search from royalty-free, classroom-friendly photographs.

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Oh, how soon I forget..... I'm glad I got re-introduced to https://t.co/2AVV2XoguT I made this little interactive in like a minute: https://t.co/9zlf6oWpmV

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Very short stories for middle and high school text study (many with the text linked right there)! https://t.co/zMXPPJGN6c

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"Page Turners Make Great Learners" is hosting a virtual visit with 14-year-old artist and prodigy Tyler Gordon today at 1:00pm! Spread the word, and register here: https://t.co/3vG4VNn9j3.

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"Wherefore do minstrels sing such wistful songs of rainbows and what at their endings lie"? (Kermit the Frog channeling Shakespeare). Check out https://t.co/TUlpBGxYbo for engaging examples of modern day songs turned into sonnets. Great for a quick "Name that Tune."

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@realdelia @JaneFriedman Creativity Test - fun stuff!

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