Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Additional Webs
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers. Students will be able to plan the writing of summaries, paragraphs, and literary responses.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introductions
This tutorial focuses on introductions; it lists and explains three common components of introductions: motivator, thesis, and blueprint. It provides a sample introduction with commentary showing each of the parts. It discusses the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Underlining and Highlighting Effectively
This slideshow focuses on underlining and highlighting effectively by showing what ineffective underlining and highlighting looks like and explaining the problems with it; this is followed by showing what effective underlining and...
Other
Ljl Seminars: Public Speaking Tips
This site provides numerous links to everything you need to know about public speaking. Some topics include Overcoming Speaking Anxiety, Hostile Audiences, Speech Preparation, Gathering Information, Elements of an Effective Speech, and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: 5 Core Concepts of Media Literacy
In this lesson, students will engage in multiple parts of a lesson that guide students to uncover many levels of meaning in media messages. Discussion questions and a slideshow presentation are parts of the lesson that address the...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Determining the Specific Purpose of Your Speech
In this learning activity, you'll review the general principles speakers use to create a specific purpose statement. At the end, practice what you learned by choosing the correct purpose statement for a brief speech.
Buck Institute
Buck Institute for Education: 6 8 Presentation Rubric (Ccss Aligned)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-8 in making effective presentations in a project, and it can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS is not noted. It describes an...
REMC Association of Michigan
Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 11. Powerful Presentations
Tired of writing all the time? Would you like to express yourself through a presentation instead? During these Quests, you are going to learn how to present your ideas creatively through Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint. At the end...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Using Technology to Support Struggling Students
Science learning often involves creating abstract representations and models of processes that we are unable to observe with the naked eye. Learn more about visualizing, representing, and modeling to aid struggling learners.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Introduction
In this section of a textbook, students learn different techniques for writing an introduction. It provides links to information on the following topics: the role of an introduction, getting attention and interest, establishing...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Visuals: Graphs, Charts, and Diagrams
This article explains that graphs, charts, and diagrams are used to display information visually. The choice of what type of graph or chart to use depends on the information to be displayed. Software programs make these much easier to...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Expand Story or History Text Based Dialog[pdf]
Students will use graphic organizers to help them make inferences about historical figures' feeings and motives. Students will summarize the information during an extension activity.
Other
Tonya Skinner: Web Page Evaluation Rubric
This is a good example of an evaluation rubric for a student created web page. Categories include content, page layout, graphics, navigation, design, information, and advanced features.
Other
University of Kansas: Project Based Learning: Multimedia Presentation Checklist
Create and print a customizable checklist for teacher or student use for planning and assessing multimedia presentations. Categories include preparation, resources, organization, navigation, appearance and media use....
Other
Uncg University Speaking Center: Parts of a Speech [Pdf]
This site provides public speaking tips. Advice and examples for writing the introduction and conclusion are highlighted. The tips could also be used to help in preparing for group discussion.
Other
Association for Computing Machinery: Visual Aids and Presentation
Information is presented on the role of visual aids in professional presentations. Article says "no more than six ideas should be presented on a single visual aid" and also gives time suggestions. Although this article is old and uses...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Doodle Splash: Using Graphics to Discuss Literature
Online instructional activity which allows students to create a graphic in understanding a given story/piece of literature. Students create this graphic in groups and then present to the class, offering explanations as to their...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Presentations: Coordination and Subordination Power Point
A PowerPoint slide explaining the use of coordinate and subordinate conjunctions to join clauses. Questions that may be found on standardized tests are included.
Other
Univ. Of Washington: How to Make an Outline [Pdf]
Information on how to make an outline. Provides a sample.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Project Exposition
This lesson engages students in expository writing. Four graphic organizers are provided to assist students in the expository writing process.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Oral Presentation Rubric
A printable four-point rubric for use when evaluating oral presentations. The rubric focuses on the specific areas of delivery, content and organization, and enthusiasm and audience awareness. Directions on how to use this rubric as well...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, Internet
This lesson plan is designed to teach various methods students can use when researching background information on one another in order to introduce each other in written and oral form.
TES Global
Tes: Media Writing Project: Create a School Prospectus
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will develop a brochure for a school during this writing unit. Students will learn functional writing and how to apply the associated conventions.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Tips From the Insiders
This resource gives six great pointers for creating your speech. It highlights including your information withing stories and andectotes in order to maintain the audience's attention.