Did you PEE in your paragraph?

Students are not likely to forget this acronym! It's a simple strategy to teach students how to structure their ideas in response to a text.

This strategy works well to address a couple Common Core Anchor Standards for Reading and Writing (I've paraphrased.):

1. Read and determine what the text says and make logical inferences; cite specific text evidence to support conclusions drawn from text.[Reading 1]
2. Draw evidence from literary and informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. [Writing 9]

PEE Strategy Resources

• Hand out for students (includes explanation of strategy, samples for literary and informational texts, rubric) 
• Graphic Organizer (Google Docs template (Give link to students: they click "use template" and type in organizer.) 
• Model Lesson using the strategy 
• Model Paragraphs
• Draw a conclusion from an infographic about STEM:  Model Paragraph

QR Quite Radical

I'm in love  with QR (Quick Response) Codes.
What's a QR Code you ask? Watch the video below:

To access codes, follow these steps:

1. Get the free ScanLife ap for your phone or snap a pic and email to SCAN@SCANLIFE.COM (They'll email you a link.)
2. If you have ap on phone, you just open ap and center QR Code on screen: it does the rest. Like magic!

Imagine how we could use QR's in the classroom! 

Watch this student-produced video: these kids share several really cool ideas.

Twitter for Educators

Watch the slideshow below to learn how to create a Twitter account and get started Tweeting at the 2011 Arkansas ASCD Conference.

Wanna Tweet?

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Still need more help? Check out the tutorials at Twitter.