TeachThought Staff – Page 170

4 Keys To Developing Academic Vocabulary

Direct Instruction, Modeling, Immersion, and Varied Interactions are four of the many keys to developing academic vocabulary in students.

Google Drive will be available to all Google Apps for Education users with unlimited storage, Vault, and enhanced auditing tools for free.

Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a sequence of words: Sally and her seashells, Peter and his peppers.

I was moved to share Bryan Stevenson’s “We Need To Talk About An Injustice,” because of its authenticity, utility, and value for teachers.

The included list highlights some of the best study apps out there, from stalwarts like Evernote and Any.Do to others like CamScanner & Zite.

Is technology peripheral to the learning activity or essential to its success? Does it deliver information or help students create meaning?

What is ‘sticky teaching’? It’s an obvious and relatively simple but interesting idea: teaching that causes learning to stick.

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