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Is Modern Culture Ruining Childhood?

For Students 7th - 10th
There are a lot of different ways a learner could respond to this New York Times article discussing the effects of modern culture on childhood. After reading the article, pupils construct a thoughtful blog post. The guiding questions...
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Reading Blog Log

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Bring technology to your novel unit with this instructional activity, which prompts readers to analyze a book they are reading in a Socratic discussion with their classmates. They create a live blog online in which they can give their...
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Information Overload: Looking at News

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How do events reported in mainstream newspapers, on television news, blog posts, and social network sites differ? Ask your class to investigate the way the same news item is presented in the many information sources available. Groups...
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Collaborative Literature Circle For the 21st Century

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Using ichat or Edmodo 4th -6th graders participate in an inter-school literature circle. Students from two different schools pair up online through ichat and use a blog to conduct a book circle. This lesson is wonderful; it fully...
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Maine Content Literacy Project

Processes of Writing and Speaking

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
As this short story unit comes to a close, provide a day for a full examination of theme and allow some time in class for individuals to work on their various assessments. This final instructional activity before presenting iMovies and...
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Getting the Word Out

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Discuss and generate blogs in this technology lesson. Middle and high schoolers explore examples of blogs and create their own blogs. Use this lesson throughout the year to reinforce concepts from your language arts class (or any class)....
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Writing
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What Is Your Favorite Place?

For Students 7th - 12th
Good writing can come from personal places. Budding online authors read an excerpt from a narrative-style newspaper article and then respond to several related writing prompts. They compose blog responses that use vivid imagery to...
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Hot Off the Web

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read an online article about blogging and its culture especially in the workplace. They create their own blogs based on current events.
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Maine Content Literacy Project

Process of Reading

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Assist your pupils with literary analysis by discussing and exploring theme. This plan, the twelfth in a series of fourteen, builds in some time to explore theme as a class. Learners also blog about the main event in their stories and...
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Creating Bloggers

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Blogs provide the motivation for this richly detailed writing lesson plan. After viewing blogs on various websites, class members pick topics, create a blog, and post an entry. Your bloggers then evaluate their work using evaluation...
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School Announcement Blog

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students become bloggers. In this technology lesson, students use video and image editing to add to an online school announcement blog that they maintain.
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Hurricane Katrina: Lara's Blog

For Students 5th - 7th
For this Hurricane Katrina Worksheet, students choose the correct answer to each of the 8 multiple choice questions, using the information in Lara's Blog.
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Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning

Reading Activity

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Ready to integrate technology into your ELL instruction? Check out this reading instructional activity that has language learners using the Internet and apps, joining online book clubs, and creating blogs. A fine model of what can be done.
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Blogging My Life 24-7

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students write sticky blog entries to practice instant communication that is simple, concrete, credible, and emotional. In this blogging lesson, students discuss blogs and visit examples to find 'sticky' writing examples. Students write...
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The Bird Can Blog: Online Writing With A Twist

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students role play the role of a clasroom pet. They write a daily blog describing the activities in the classroom. They use peer editing as well.
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Literature Blog

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write online responses to the Literature they are reading in class using computers, internet access, and the Blog website www.blogger.com. This technology based language arts lesson can be adapted for many different areas of...
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Grand View Library

Grandview Newspaper

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Get your young journalists above the fold with a set of lessons about newspapers. Kids focus on writing articles using the 5 Ws before creating a slide show presentation and blog entry to publish their writing.
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Thinking Out Loud

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students share opinions about whether a series of statements from the internet constitute facts or opinions. They read and analyze blogs published in on the web in order to understand the use of fact, opinion, and tone of voice when...
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Maine Content Literacy Project

Understanding Theme

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The ninth in a fourteen-lesson series, this plan marks a sort of midpoint in a unit devoted to the study of short stories. Pupils learn about theme and work on their short story projects by adding to their blogs, checking in with the...
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Maine Content Literacy Project

Introduction to Literacy Criticism

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
As learners continue to examine a short story of their choice, they take some time to look at analysis completed by others on the same story. In the eleventh lesson in a series of fourteen, pupils explore various sites for literary...
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The New York Times

Stress Less: Understanding How Your Mind and Body Respond to Anxiety

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
What could be more relevant to teens and preteens than experiencing stress? Use an article from the New York Times website to practice valuable Common Core skills for informational text reading, and also get a discussion going in your...
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Blogs and Other Internet Vocabular

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students explore the definition and derivation of popular internet vocabulary. Using worksheets and lecture materials, students provide meanings for the word blog and other words used to describe working on the internet. They consider...
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Growing up in Las Vegas; Memories of Childhood in the Neon City

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the history of Las Vegas through conducting interviews.  In this oral history lesson, students locate and speak with older residents of Las Vegas in order to gain a better understanding of the city.  High...
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The New Kids on the Blog

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the role of a critic by creating top ten lists for arts-related topics and participate in a simulated blog activity. They write newpaper articles to accompany their top ten lists and submit them for publication.

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