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• 100 People: A World Portrait

  tags: socialstudies

• Edward Bloor biography

  tags: tangerine yaauthors

• Teaching ideas for the novel Tangerine

  tags: tangerine yanovels

• Educational Leadership Articles on Coaching

  tags: coaching

• Calgary Science School Blog

  tags: inquiry-based learning science

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Meli swimming

My ESL student and I are reading the "Meli" series from the Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention kit. We're really enjoying the series, and after we read Meli at the Vet, my student asked me if Meli was a real dog or just made up for the series, which I thought was a good question. When my student asks questions, (the last one was "Do baby sharks have teeth?") I like to try to follow up with some modeled or shared research. So, after some back and forth with very helpful representatives at Heinemann, I found out that Meli is Irene Fountas's West Highland Terrier and they sent me a youtube link of the real Meli swimming. So cute!

Diigo bookmark (weekly)

• Civil Rights Thinkquest

  tags: socialstudies socialjustice

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• Making Sense of Online Text

  Teaching reading strategies for students doing research on the web.

  tags: reading 2.0 research

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Diigo bookmark (weekly)

• Gettysburg Address Primary Document

  From the Library of Congress

  tags: gettysburgaddress socialstudies

• RAFT

  Description of the RAFT writing strategy

  tags: writing RAFT

• Charlie's Playhouse

  Recommended children's books on evolution

  tags: evolution science

• High Tech Teaching in a Low Tech Classroom

  Tips and suggestions

  tags: 2.0

• Creating Infographics with Students

  tags: infographics

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