
#2 Talking
Everyday Event:
An everyday event in every classroom involves talking. Students talk to one another—in the classroom, on the playground, in the lunchroom, and to and from school. Teachers talk (a lot in some classrooms). Students talk to teachers. Administrators talk to students. Students talk to administrators. Describing this talk in different ways is one way to bring exceptional expressions into everyday events.
Exceptional Expression:
Today, we are going to articulate rather than simply talk. [other possibilities: converse, communicate, whisper, murmur]
Follow-ups:
- Is articulating different than talking? If yes, how?
- How might a discussion be different than an utterance? A speech?
Posted 09/02/2008
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Reading First Conference Materials
Updated 8/23/08… PDFs now available! The slides and handouts from Freddy’s summer 2008 Reading First presentations on strategic vocabulary selection are now available. Scroll down to the “Summer 2008 Strategic Vocabulary Selection Workshops” item under “Recent Additions to the TextProject Library” or use this bookmark to get the downloadable PDFs.
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Presentation Posted 11/20/2008
Choosing the Right Words and Texts for Fluency and Vocabulary Instruction
Webinar presented by Elfrieda H. Hiebert November 19, 2008 hosted by myPearsonTraining.com.
Download Slide Handout: "ChoosingTheRightWordsandTextsForFluency.pdf" (PDF, 371.54KB)
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Paper Posted 08/26/2008
Increasing Reading Opportunities for English Language Learners
Elizabeth Bernhardt, Stanford University
From the forthcoming book Reading more, reading better: Are students reading enough of the right stuff? edited by Elfrieda H. Hiebert. To be published in spring of 2009 by Guilford Press
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Summer 2008 Strategic Vocabulary Selection Presentations
Presentation Posted 08/23/2008
Strategic Vocabulary Selection: Choosing Words From Narrative & Informational Texts
Slides from the main presentation, plus slides and handouts from the in-depth workshop, presented by Elfrieda H. Hiebert during the summer of 2008.
Download Slides (Color): "Strategic Vocabulary Selection (Hiebert 2008) Main Presentation.pdf" (PDF, 2.24MB)
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