Dr. Sam Bommarito @DoctorSam7 Replying to @luqmanmichel No one knows everything, but all of us know some things and if we all are willing to talk instead of bickering then we all can learn a lot. My comment now: Everyone on earth knows something I don’t and I have always listened to those who have spoken to me. I read articles and links in articles, blog posts and on Twitter before making a decision. If everyone reads before opening their big mouth, we will all learn together. The problem is that many on Twitter are mind readers and they think for others. Dr. Sam Bommarito @DoctorSam7 May 17 Replying to @luqmanmichel @WSroufe and 13 others At the end of...
Organized Classroom has had some great guest blog posts over the years and this one all about guided reading resources organization is another great example! Keep reading to find out how she gets all her items pulled together – and make sure to pick up the free Guided Reading Resource Organization Pack I whipped up that is modeled after the pictures from the post. Enjoy! Hello again. I wanted to share with you an idea I found on Pinterest (of course) this summer and knew I just had to try in my own classroom. It is a guided reading crate. Previously I had all of my materials at my desk in baskets for each group and I would change up...
An escape from history seems impossible for 2015 Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. After chronicling the Soviet Union through her “documentary novels,” her own genre often mistaken for oral history, since 1985, she had begun working on two new books, one on love and another on aging and death. She saw these topics as an opportunity for something different, untethered to the history of what she calls the “Red Person” in the former Soviet Union. But following the explosive 2019 revolution in Belarus, her subsequent flight into exile (her second in a little more than two decades) in which she had to abandon her manuscripts, and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, she realized that her project...
In historical scholarship during the early 21st century, some of these new methods and tools of truth-seeking have been put to work on a large scale in the history of slavery and race in America. Among the most important and useful of these tools are the careful construction of empirical databases. Increasingly, this work has been done by teams of scholars, who combine traditional sources with digital methods on a new scale. For the history of African slavery in America, the leading example is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, a major project of quantitative research, with free and open digital access to all who wish to use it. Its leaders are David Eltis and David Richardson. They organized and led...
By Dr Trina D Spencer & Dr Douglas B Petersen , We take for granted that our children tell stories. But what if they can’t? Oral storytelling is a bridge to literacy, yet many children do not develop this skill naturally. Research has shown that narrative skill at school entry predicts writing and reading comprehension up to ten years later. Narrative intervention is a form of language therapy and a classroom instructional approach that leverages personally and culturally relevant oral storytelling to promote school success. Drs Trina Spencer and Douglas Petersen in the US have developed ten principles of narrative intervention that can help guide practice. There are few things more fascinating for a parent of a young child...
