Saddler and Graham (2005) looked at whether peer-assisted strategies would enhance instruction on sentence-combining techniques and found that 4th-grade students who participated in the experimental, peer-assisted group demonstrated (1) improved story writing and (2) improved use of grammatical ...
So I go on and on, 58 years after writing my first story in first grade, sitting in the cockpit of my own delicious, wacky inner universe, roaming anywhere and everywhere, always exploring, always finding something new, always digging for a new way to bring it forth … and hoping I tur...
The woman who was “renting” that apartment (who had stopped paying rent before the storm came) was threatening my maintenance man every day to the point he didn’t want to work on that building anymore. She was also calling the city to complain about how I was such a “slumlord” ev...
Vocabulary35Grade3,Unit5:GoingPlaces ©HoughtonMifflinHarcourtPublishingCompany. Lesson21 WEEKLYTESTS21.5 NameDate TwoBadAnts StoryStructure,Comprehension SelectionTest Thinkbacktotheselection“TwoBadAnts”toanswerquestions1–10.Markthe spaceforthebestanswertoeachquestion. 1Atthebeginningofthestory,4Whatwereth...
Harcourt Journeys: Story Selection Copyright © 2011 Kelly Mott 1 Unit 2: Lesson 10 “Jose! Born to Dance” Copyright © 2011 Kelly Mott 2 Turn your Text Book to page 250. Copyright © 2011 Kelly Mott 1 2 3 Why does the author start the selection with a description of Jose “kick...
“they simply weren’t there, and nor were the Noongar words that seeped into our talk…it was as if English had a stubborn claim on the landscape”, and felt subversive when he was discovering the love of language. In a heartening story, this came together when, at twenty-nine years,...
For my daughter’s sixth-grade study in church history, we’ve been reading the bookTortured for Christby Richard Wurmbrand. This powerful account sheds light on the persecution that occurred in Romania during the communist regime. Wurmbrand, a pastor during the 1950s-1960s, witnessed firsthand...
View her work and watch “This is Your Life” from 1953 featuring her story. Chinese Baseball Team Travel with a Chinese Baseball Team to King Salmon, Alaska and along Iceland’s Ring Road. Bon Mot I love the sounds and stories of words regardless of their language. Here you will find ...
In the middle-grade novel, “The Lions of Little Rock,” Kristin Levine tells the story of racial school segregation in Arkansas in the late 1950s. Twelve-year-old Marlee is quiet and shy before she meets Liz, who helps Marlee become more confident as their friendship grows. When Liz disa...
Another encounter fromJohn 12:1-8, describes Jesus allowing Mary to anoint his feet with an expensive and fragrant ointment that would sell for $20,000 today. In this story, Jesus has justcome to Bethanyin preparation for his final Passover in Jerusalem. Mary obviously has the means to pos...