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Resources for teaching word choice.
Updated on Oct 26, 11
Created on Oct 26, 11
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Dennis OConnor's List: 6-Traits Word Choice
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Welcome to the SERP website for Word Generation.
Word Generation is a middle school academic language program developed under the direction of Harvard University Professor Catherine Snow, one of the nation’s most prominent experts in literacy. The program originated at the SERP-Boston field site in collaboration with teachers and administrators in the Boston Public Schools. It is geared toward all students, in all subject areas, and can be used in all three middle grades simultaneously. The program is strategically designed to create a coherent school-wide effort that gives students the sustained exposure to academic language they need for success in school—even while demanding relatively little (15 minutes, once a week) from any single subject area teacher.
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Mar 19, 11
"Mandalas are forms of sacred geometry; ancient, and cross-cultural visual tools for initiation, spiritual development and enlightenment. While the word "mandala" originates from the Sanskrit and while we have come to associate this kind of form with India and the Buddhist tradition, every culture around the globe creates what they consider spiritually-informed symbols that could be seen as mandalas."
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Mandalas are forms of sacred geometry; ancient, and cross-cultural visual tools for initiation, spiritual development and enlightenment. While the word "mandala" originates from the Sanskrit and while we have come to associate this kind of form with India and the Buddhist tradition, every culture around the globe creates what they consider spiritually-informed symbols that could be seen as mandalas.
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Dec 03, 07
The Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English contains 145,000 words, phrases, and definitions.
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Aug 11, 08
Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you
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I've found that creating word mandalas as both a class project and an individual effort not only help build word choice, but also provide a non-linear way to brainstorm writing ideas.
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These Wacky Web Tales are geared for grades 3 and above.
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Mar 17, 11
Adora Svitak; This young author has created a series of well produced videos for teaching writing.
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Eleven-year-old published author and seasoned presenter Adora Svitak talks about the Six Traits: Word Choice.
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Jul 11, 11
Inspired picture writing
Drag and drop words on to pictures
possible poetry, idea generation, word choice applications -
Mar 18, 11
Everybody loves Mad Libs. Put this up on your white board when you want to fill a few minutes with a high impact game that teaches word choice!
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The trait of word choice is a complex trait that should be discussed, explored, and further developed every year that students learn to write in school; both kindergartners and high school seniors can be taught to think about developmentally appropriate skills that are associated with word choice. This page contains word choice lessons and resources that we consider appropriate for sharing with third graders and up. If you are working with primary writers and the six traits, be sure to visit WritingFix's 6 Traits and Primary Writing Homepage.
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Aug 11, 08
Word Choice
A word cloud generated by my lecture on Word Choice from UW-Stout's online class: Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6-Traits.
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