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Lesson plans for a short-period day

  05/06/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I haven’t posted my lessons for a while and will back up and do so soon. Today we had another short-period day (3 this week! (Continue Reading)

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Up-coming lesson on explicit grammar instruction

  04/11/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I dropped off a bit in reporting my daily activities. The death of one of my students disrupted some of the activities, but generally we (Continue Reading)

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Angry disruption in class

  03/18/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Frequently, our listservs for fl teachers contain laments over the outbursts of students with little emotional control. I thought my log today should be about (Continue Reading)

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Daily lessons & activities & their assessment

  03/11/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

During Spring Break, my picture files have been the target of my efforts. For a brief explanation: I have hundreds and hundreds of pictures, most (Continue Reading)

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Quote from a learning log

  03/01/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This was a learning log from a 3rd year student. She is referencing a story we had read: “I enjoyed answering the question about the (Continue Reading)

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Lesson plans and activities Feb. 23-27

  02/26/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

We have done a sketch of 3 connected stories using the format I’ve described before. Now we are turning in one such sketch of all (Continue Reading)

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Kids say …

  02/22/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My 4 y.o; grandson said, “You almost made me fell.” My 7 y.o. granddaughter corrected him by saying, “Fall, Logan, it’s you made me fall.” (Continue Reading)

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Map work

  02/12/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

We tested yesterday over their ability to read a brand new story and extract information from it and analyze it (characters, setting, plot, events, etc.). (Continue Reading)

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Another days of lesson plans

  02/10/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The last two days, we have gone over the two formats I gave them and then combined for analyzing a story. All classes read one (Continue Reading)

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The serendipitous finding of ideas

  02/01/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Having come home early to check on my wife, who had just had surgery, I satisfied myself as to her well-being and comfort and settled (Continue Reading)

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More lesson plans done

  02/01/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

OK, so here’s the next one. Last semester I gave the students a template to use in sketching out the elements of any story we (Continue Reading)

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Daily log of lesson plans and outcomes

  01/31/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Yesterday I started with simple questions to write a story. Where are we? Who’s there and what are their names? What are they doing? Why (Continue Reading)

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