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What a great way to start a class....Pass It On

Go Animate

How about making a little cartoon in your next class:

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Mentor Text for Controlling and Supporting Ideas

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9th grade student from Sam Houston

From the creation of time, humans have adapted and evolved to survive and create progress. From the creation of the wheel, man has invented new ways to improve people’s lives. One of the inventions man has created has revolutionized the modern world, with the creation of the Iphone. The Iphone is the new technology that has affected and changed people’s lives. The Iphone lets their owner communicate through calls and texting. Not only that, it allows you to explore photos and videos with high-definition quality. This eliminates the need to carry a camera around, and allows people to reach others from anywhere around the globe. As a result, society is able to now use this device throughout their daily experiences from work to leisure. With these features, it has made people do things in a much faster and easier manner. Not only is the Iphone a form of communication, it’s also a source of information. With the Iphone you can eliminate the need to carry a bulky, large laptop around due to its reasonable, transportable, smaller size. The Iphone allow you to stream the web in record fast speed, from Google, Firefox, Youtube, and even social networking sites such as Facebook. Also, with many apps to choose from including a GPS to Angry Birds, the Iphone is everything in one-single phone. Therefore, this device offers information to people in different contexts throughout their daily lives. The Iphone is a new technology that affects people’s lives. From a faster-way to communicate, to an easier way to search the web, the IPhone has changed lives for a variety of people. Essentially, it is one more step into the future of progress.

Telescripts for Non Fiction on Discovery Channel Website

Enjoy a little Readers theatre with Discovery's transcript of the documentary, The Ice Man Murder Mystery: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/iceman-murder-mystery.html

Movie Trailers for Teaching Fiction 101

Apple has a comprehensive site of two minute trailers that are great to teach Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then, Finally. Of course, the "finally" is let off a trailer, so you'll go check out the film. http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/

Using Webspiration and Graphic Organizers for Expository Essays

Thanks fellow Blogger for sharing this fabulous set of outlining and graphic organizer software: http://mcstech.wikispaces.com/Graphic+Organizers+and+Mindmapping

Creating Characters Using Draw, Caption, Label

Students learned about characterizaion using the draw, caption, label, method.

Expository and Literary Writing

In this class students analyzed prompts to determine whether a text is literary (story) or expository (essay). They broke into groups and reviewed two essays. The first two classes started their own essay about cyber bullying.

Creating Characters Using STEAL

One way to help students remember the components of characterization is using, Speech, Thoughts, Effects on Others, Actions, and Looks.

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Area 4 Pictures

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From Challenge to Change

Spell Check!

Thanks to Arika Jordan at Tinsley Elementary for sharing her hard work.


Go to www.spellingcity.com to access all of our "High Frequency Words for Standardized Tests" by grade level.


(Background on Spelling City)
- Over 38,000 spelling words and eight spelling games!
- A REAL person who says each vocabulary word and sentence
- Thousands of free spelling lists. Or save your own spelling word list!
- A free forum and newsletter with more spelling resources!

- Eight spelling and vocabulary games to play with your lists.



Here are the links to use the lists:

Listed on the Tinsley homepage under Spelling City: http://es.houstonisd.org/TinsleyES/

Direct Link: http://www.spellingcity.com/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=17120

Elrod's Interactive Boards!

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Elrod Interactive Boards for January!

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Searchlight: See the Strategy in Action

The University of Texas at Austin has a great site that includes web videos of the instructional technique that is being taught.

Celebrate! Creative, Student-friendly Interactive Boards in the WFP

At the beginning of the school year, Ms. Fonteno challenged Westbury schools to make every space of the school a learning place. Now, every elementary in the WFP boasts of creative, interactive bulletin boards that address TEKS, focus learning, create common understanding, and make sure that hands-on learning happens everywhere in the building. There are over 50 great photos of the work in the slide show below.


I really enjoyed snapping the photos, and admired the ingenuity and creativity of so many talented teachers and students. (I'm working on improving my snapshot skills).

I'd love to give each teacher personal credit for their work. If you designed a board displayed, please send me your name.

Submit photos directly to me, if you have an interactive board to add to the Westbury Feeder Collection.

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Mind Map: Where are your thoughts going?

Mind mapping is a great way to access prior knowledge and make connections. Students love the combination of visuals and text.