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Volume three: 2005-2006

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Composed by Ed Clarke, these newsletters are a good resource for teachers and provide information on classroom management, literacy, reading strategies and many other topics.

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Volume Three 2005-2006 Literacy Newsletters
Date	Topic	Adobe Acrobat File
	Table of Contents	Contents
9/7/05	Rubrics Sample Rubrics Websites for Rubrics	Issue 1
9/12/05	Roots and Prefixes Suggestions for teaching roots and prefixes	Issue 2
9/19/04	Structural Analysis Roots and Prefixes Suggestions for teaching roots and prefixes	Issue 3
9/26/05	Word Walls Websites for word puzzles Concept Squares	Issue 4
10/3/05	Sentence Completion Transition words	Issue 5
10/10/05	Sentence Completion: Forward method from Spark Notes	Issue 6
10/17/05	Sentence Completion: Backward method from Spark Notes	Issue 7
10/24/05	Designing an Essay Question	Issue 8
10/31/05	Correcting an Essay: Assessing and evaluation, handling grammar and punctuation, and using explicit assessment criteria and assessment rubrics.	Issue 9
11/7/05	The Writing Process: Prewriting, writing, and editing and revising	Issue 10
11/14/05	Reading as a Process: Before, during and after reading	Issue 11
11/21/05	Ways of reading actively Predicting what an author will say next	Issue 12
11/28/05	Ways to Order Paragraphs Time Order Geographic Order	Issue 13
12/5/05	Ordering paragraphs: most important to least important Classroom Management ideas	Issue 14
12/12/05	Classroom Management ideas Ordering paragraph: least important to most important	Issue 15
12/19/05	Guidelines for good classroom management Expert Question	Issue 16
1/3/06	Orientation questions Ordering a paragraph: comparison/contrast What makes a good question?	Issue 17
1/9/06	Knowing what's important: signposts in text Ordering a paragraph: cause/effect Character education: trustworthiness	Issue 18
1/17/06	Taking Notes on reading Ordering a paragraph: classification order Character education: respect	Issue 19
1/23/06	Taking Notes on reading Ordering a paragraph: listing Character education: responsibility	Issue 20
1/30/06	Reading a history text: Setting a purpose/previewing Character education: fairness	Issue 21
2/6/06	Reading a science text: Outlining/headings/study cards	Issue 22
2/13/06	Reading a math text: Visualizing Weeding out excessive information	Issue 23
2/27/06	Focus on study questions: Read, plan, write, rewrite, edit Definitions of words in questions Character education: caring	Issue 24
3/6/06	Focus on word problems: read, plan, write, rewrite	Issue 25
3/13/06	What's in a textbook: chapter previews, charts/graphs, footnotes Graphic organizers: KWS chart, planning chart	Issue 26
3/20/06	What's in a textbook: glossaries, indexes, maps, photos/illustrations Graphic organizers: four column chart, timeline, e-chart	Issue 27
3/27/06	What's in a textbook: special features, study questions and reviews, table of contents, timelines Graphic organizers: cluster/word web, sequence chart, tic-tac-toe chart	Issue 28
4/3/06	Reading nonfiction: expository, narrative Reading an essay	Issue 29
4/10/06	Guidelines for reading essays Rhetorical devices: questions, repetition, parallelism, alliteration	Issue 30
4/24/06	Responding to an essay exam question	Issue 31
5/1/06	The language of media literacy: a glossary of terms	Issue 32
5/8/06	Key questions to analyze a media message	Issue 33
5/15/06	Media as text: the media triangle: text, production, audience	Issue 34
5/22/06	Visual literacy: reading media photographs	Issue 35

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10/18/2006

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