David Liben

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3 EL Education’s open access free curriculum; their culminating assignments are beautifully aligned with the standards and the type of assignments we see on state tests. #ohedchat @ELeducation

2 For more micro skills: developing sentences and paragraphs, transitions, word choice and more see the Writing Revolution #ohedchat @natwexler

6.1 Vermont Writing Collaborative home of the Writing for Understanding approach used in EL Educations curriculum is excellent for the type of approach I outlined in number one above. Especially the Painted Essay. #ohedchat

Q6: What are your favorite resources on writing, writing & literacy? #ohedchat

***Q6 is coming up in one minute! #ohedchat

2 Students from less affluent homes who attend less affluent schools have less time on the computer and thus less time to develop computer facility such as typing and searching savvy. #ohedchat

5.1 No research I know of has shown a boost from technology so I no answers I trust. There are equity issues here too. While nearly all students have some type of computer in their home, they don’t all have equal access. #ohedchat

RT Q5: How can technology support reading/writing across the content areas? #ohedchat

@TebnerEbner #ohedchat Yes, but in all subjects

Q4 is up: How can teachers support each other in working with literacy? #ohedchat

2 Another absolutely fabulous resource by the Vermont Writing Collaborative. Annotates actual student writing samples to explain how they meet or don’t meet the standard being addressed. Found here #ohedchat

4.1 Weekly cross subject grade level meetings devoted to teachers sharing assignments, reasons for it and student work samples from it. The Instructional Practice Guide or IPG on achievethecore.org is helpful. #ohedchat @achievethecore

Q4: How can teachers support each other in working with literacy? #ohedchat

***Q4 is coming up in one minute! #ohedchat

3 Hundreds of topics to choose from, excellent for quick write responses or extended ones. Lots of science, history, arts. #ohedchat

2 This helps develop writing fluency ESPECIALLY if done across the content areas. ReadWorks (grew out of curriculum from school ML & I started in Harlem) has article a day sets (five connected articles are read, one a day). #ohedchat @ReadWorks

3.1 I also believe in quick writes as in the Collins writing program. Every day teachers ask a quick question/not graded/not great writing, just thoughts on paper, +/- 5m in response to that question. #ohedchat @JohnCollinsPUSD

RT Q3: What strategies can teachers use to meaningfully support reading/writing across the content areas? #ohedchat

@JMitchellELA @edtechgirl #ohedchat It is definitely a "both and" all students should have the opportunity to work with rich complex text --- but with LOTS of support. They also need to read as much as possible that they can read independently in order to grow knowledge, vocabulary and love of reading

@edtechgirl Some Ss may or may not be ready to dissect a text at its roots for analysis due to the reading level & comp. Should all Ss be required to read all texts together? What exactly does this accomplish? Ss should be self selecting many texts & discussing by need/want/growth. #ohedchat

The emphasis on ALL students doing the reading together is essential. #ohedchat

#ohedchat In as study of which professions did the most reading , first was lawyers but second was scientists. Most find this very surprising but there are literally hundreds of thousands of journ als and they get read