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American Idol Language Arts
This session is an example of how to use Pop Culture to draw students to your side as together you explore reading and writing using a popular television program as a reference point. Country Music Diva is one way to examine summary from the standpoint of beginning, middle, end and problem/solution. Join Dottie Hall and me (Kaye Price-Hawkins) Sunday at 8:30 to see how this works and what other connections we can make. If you would like to contact me for additional information, please feel free to access my website: www.pricelessliteracy.homestead.com. Thank you!
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"The existing standardized tests are so incredibly bogus that it is the height of impropriety for NCTE and other so-called professional organizations to pretend that tests exist "to identify learning needs, inform instruction, and monitor student ...
So far there has been no response from NCTE in any form since the postings on the website of the Washington Post. The bottom line remains:
NCTE has approved of a plan that calls for
(1) Explicit, systematic teaching of literacy as the only path.
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Approximately 8 million students in grades 4-12 are reading below grade level. Limited literacy skills cause 3,000 students to drop out of high school every day.
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MIT university is trying to build a free resource to help kids learn SAT/ACT thru the power of user-generated images and video. We are currently running a nationwide contest, challenging kids to make fun and memorable flashcards by pairing sentences and images to a common test word. There will be a small cash prize and iTunes giveaways. Due date is May 22.
More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules. Do you have students or colleagues who would be interested?