Hands-On Literacy, Grade 6: Authentic Learning Experiences That Engage Students in Creative and Critical Thinking

ISBN-13: 9781032326252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 132 str.

Mark Hess

Opis

This practical resource is a compendium of authentic and hands-on literacy activities that will engage, challenge, and delight students. Specifically targeting Grade 6, these lessons and strategies enhance literacy instruction and encourage critical thinking, aiming to enrich all students’ abilities and gifts.

Spis treści

Meet the Author  Introduction  1. Backpacks and Satchels: Characterization  2. Postcard Glyph: Fiction Plot, Characterization, Conflict, Setting, and Theme  3. Pawn Shop: Biography  4. Personal Logo Business Cards: Characterization  5. Trading Cards: Plot, Characters, Theme, Setting, and Conflict  6. Picturing the Most Important Idea Never Explained: Theme  7. Create a Mood in Nine Panels: Poetry  8. Putting it All Together with Parodies, a Full Hands-on Literacy Unit  9. Literacy Choice Cube Menus

O autorze

Mark Hess is a SENG board member and the editor of the SENG Library, President of the Colorado Association for Gifted Students, and serves as the Gifted Programs Specialist in a large, urban school district in Colorado Springs. Mark also serves as an advisory committee member for NAGC’s Teaching for High Potential. At Portable Gifted and Talented, Mark has shared over 25,000 free resources for teachers and parents of gifted children. You can visit his website at www.giftedlearners.org.