Julie,
Im glad youre interested! I conducted this lesson in a private school that
had a plethora of technology options. The palm pilots already contained
Sketchy. However, if your school owns palm pilots, you can download the
Sketchy program onto them for free. This website should work
Hello everyone. I am a literacy graduate student, and have an upcoming
presentation on incorporating a small computer cluster into daily instruction.
I was wondering if any of you have a small computer cluster in your classroom
(a group of 3-6 computers), and how you utilize the machines on a
Hi Heather. I used a class set of palm pilots while teaching a biography/civil
rights unit to a fourth grade class. There is a program called Sketchy for
palm pilots that aligns with the visualization strategy in Harvey and Goudvis
Strategies that Work. Sketchy is kind of like a mini anima
Im a literacy graduate student, and Im in the process of making an iMovie
about book clubs. Since book clubs were recently brought up, I was wondering
if anyone could share about their book clubs in more detail. I am also
proposing in my iMovie that teachers create an online (and optional) b
In response to teaching students voice, I find it very common that students
struggle with voice, especially in nonfiction writing. Portalupi and Fletcher
(1998, 2001) provide examples in how to teach voice in both Craft Lessons and
Nonfiction Craft Lessons. Some books they use to model voice a
