This lesson explores the history and use of thirteen different historic forts in the Dakota territory. The lesson, which features author Jeff Barnes speaking at Deadw ...
This lesson explores the British Army before and during the American Revolutionary War. The lesson, which features historian and author Don Hagist speaking at the Ame ...
This summer marks five years since the 2020 uprising for Black lives — an anniversary that feels especially resonant right now, as protesters in cities like Minneapolis, where George Floyd was ...
10 1.2K Share or save for quick reference. A FRAYER MODEL is a graphic organizer that helps students clarify the meaning of vocabulary words they encounter while listening, reading, and viewing texts.
To sum it up, the four most effective scaffolds in my experience have been visual supports, simplified texts, extended time, ...
IMAGINE THE perfect urban neighbourhood. Residential streets are peppered with shops and cafés. Schools, museums and theatres can all be reached on foot. Green spaces offer a quiet escape. Some cities ...
When it comes to university teaching, we may have reached the point that the old-fashioned thing is the innovative thing. I recently began incorporating pop vocabulary quizzes in my undergraduate ...
A number of notable recent books, including Joseph Stiglitz’s The Price of Inequality and Timothy Noah’s The Great Divergence, lay out in disheartening detail the growing inequality of income and ...
1 Faculty of Arts and Sciences, The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon. 2 Faculty of Letters, The Islamic University of Lebanon, Khaldeh, Lebanon. Using graphic organizers as a ...
In today’s post, I am covering a very important strategy in teaching vocabulary—the Frayer Model. This graphic organizer has transformed the way educators introduce and explore new words across ...
Graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier has been described as “like the Beatles for teenagers.” Her popular books depict feelings and emotions young people may not want to talk about with adults, like ...