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Corroboration, Conflicting Sources, and Competing Narratives

May 22, 2015by Core Transition 3 Comments

Corroboration, Conflicting Sources, and Competing Narratives by Brooke Feldman Students often ask me, “how do we know what really happened?” As historians, we tackle this sophisticated question by corroborating, sourcing, […]

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3 Ways to Build Students’ Word Consciousness

May 18, 2015by Core Transition 4 Comments

3 Ways to Build Students’ Word Consciousness by Abi Frost Most teachers I know have a deep interest in words and academic language.  That’s probably why many of us became […]

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How Do You Eat an Elephant? Preparing for PARCC Writing, Part 2

February 13, 2015by Core Transition 1 Comment

How Do You Eat an Elephant? Preparing for PARCC Writing, Part 2 by Megan Hyland On November 7, I wrote Part 1 of this blog, which explained the first bite […]

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3 Go-To Close Reading Strategies

December 1, 2014by Core Transition 3 Comments

3 Go-To Close Reading Strategies by Abi Frost With the shift to Common Core State Standards, there has been lots of talk of “close reading.”  As a reading specialist, my […]

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

October 16, 2014by Core Transition 1 Comment

 Nothing Gold Can Stay by Kathleen Stern Recently, I revamped a poetry analysis lesson using feedback from the other Transition Fellows. I asked my seventh grade students to analyze the […]

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The 40-Year-Old Paperboy

May 12, 2014by Core Transition 10 Comments

The 40-Year-Old Paperboy by Peter Sipe When I was in 6th grade, my parents, displeased with my less than Stakhanovite approach to labor, signed me up to deliver a weekly […]

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Cultivating Discussion Skills in Literature Circles

April 15, 2014by Core Transition 2 Comments

Cultivating Discussion Skills in Literature Circles by Abi Frost and Kathleen Stern Why Discussion Skills? Discussion skills are easy to neglect, especially when there are so many reading and writing […]

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What’s in a Word? On Vocabulary Instruction

February 7, 2014by Core Transition 13 Comments

What’s In a Word? On Vocabulary Instruction by Kathleen Stern As a middle school reading teacher, I constantly find myself thinking, “If my students knew the meaning of more words, they […]

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Make Your Students “Poetry Geniuses”!

December 16, 2013by Core Transition 2 Comments

Make Your Students “Poetry Geniuses”! by Abi Frost I recently discovered a web resource called “rap genius”.    This Brooklyn-based startup allows users to explore and understand the meaning behind […]

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ELA, Uncategorized

Visuals and Reading

December 11, 2013by Core Transition 17 Comments

Visuals and Reading by Kathleen Stern Over the last few years in my seventh grade reading class, I’ve asked students to do more visual analysis and creation. This has nothing […]

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