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JPS Mini- Lesson - Story Mapping

Jackson Public School District, Jackson, MS: Ashanti Barnes, Curriculum Lead at JPS Office of Teaching & Learning, discusses story mapping for books.

Semantic Gradients

Semantic gradients are a way to broaden and deepen students’ understanding of related words.

Poetry in Middle School

Dr. Sylvia Vardell describes why poetry works in middle school, even if teachers and students are reluctant to try it at first.

The Page-to-Stage Writing Workshop

Kwame Alexander has developed a kit with Scholastic that includes a teacher’s guide and a library of classroom demonstration videos.

Take Five Activity

Dr. Sylvia Vardell walks through the “Take-Five” activity, a five-minute strategy for reading a short poem together.

Book-in-a-Day program

Kwame Alexander talks about his in-school writing and publishing program for k-8 students.

Improv revision

Mary Amato uses an improvisation game to introduce the purpose of the revision process.

The 40 book challenge

The goals are to expose students to a wide range of literature and encourage them to try a bit of everything so that they can become strong, capable readers of any text.

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