​Critical Media Literacy Media literacy teaches learners how to access, evaluate, and produce media. Critical media literacy expands this by encouraging learners to define relationships of power and question social norms. Because youths are often unaware of the influence of media on their psyche, it becomes even more significant that educators utilize critical pedagogical approaches to aid learners in becoming critically conscious (Kellner, 2000; Yosso, 2002). It is important that literacy instruction supports learners’ ability to read myriad texts, in addition to how to read the world they live in as text. In a media saturated society, where youths are educated daily by and through the media they engage with, critical media literacy becomes a significant and impactful way to create critical consumers and critical producers and promote critical thinking

The Importance of task persistence
By Jenny Nordman
Students need to know that it is all right occasionally to become frustrated or discourage when reading. However, they also need to know how to encourage themselves to persists when this happens. 
Continue reading this article to learn about strategies to increase reading persistance. 

Celebrating Earth Day Collection

• Apple suppliers commit to using green energy 
• The history of Earth Day
• The global reaction to water and earth pollution 
• More people need to learn about cilmate change

How to Make a Quiz Work Harder for You. 
​When you give a test or quiz, do you basically just grade it, give it back to students, go over the answers, then move on? If you don’t do anything else with the information, if you don’t look carefully at how students answer your test questions, you’re missing a BIG opportunity.www.cultofpedagogy.com/aggregate-test-scores/

​To be literate, you must be able to not only read and write, but also speak and listen. “Literacy practices support learners by enabling them to grapple with ideas, share their thoughts, enrich understanding, and solve problems” (Krajcik and Sutherland 2010). This column describes numerous literacy practices that can help students master science vocabulary and have in-depth conversations about science topics. 

​The ideas students bring to class and their perspectives on what is happening in the classroom change constantly. Keeping track of these changes is useful for adapting lessons, nurturing student self-reflection, increasing student ownership of learning, and building a teaching practice responsive to learners’ needs. In this article, we discuss how a simple formative assessment tool—exit tickets—can be used to help teachers do this work. 

We’re Killing the Love of Reading, but Here's an Easy Fix. By Marisa E. Thompson. The Unlimited Teacher Blog. ​

Click on the link for a full intro to twitter in the classroom: 
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How many times have you asked your students to “take notes” on a topic, only to find that they have generated a mere list of bullets with little attention paid to the relationships between pieces of information?
​Here is an instructional sequence designed to bring students through the process of creating three introductory outlines, each more sophisticated than the previous one. 
Enjoy reading!