Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Classification and Analysis
This site provides some help reading an essay that deals with the classification and analysis of a piece of literature. Offers some instruction about the type of essay, a sample text, and guiding questions to help you analyze your own...
Education Development Center
Making Mathematics: Mathematics Research Teacher Handbook: Getting Information
Information for teachers on teaching students how to research and write on mathematical topics. Includes tips for active reading, researching online and journal sources, and conducting interviews to gather information.
Library of Congress
Loc: Change in Early 20th Century America: Doing the Decades
This unit provides a flexible investigative structure for the study of selected themes in U.S. history and culture using the American Memory collections and related resources. Core goals are the development of relationships between...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Power Notes
Power Notes is a strategy that teaches students an efficient form of organizing information from assigned text. This technique provides students a systematic way to look for relationships within material they are reading. Power Notes...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Five Areas of Instructional Improvement to Increase Academic Literacy
How can content-area, non-reading-specialist teachers contribute to academic literacy? They can incorporate these five techniques throughout their lessons: (1) provide explicit instruction and supported practice in effective...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Analytical Writing in the Content Areas
Because writing is thinking, the organization of students' writing reflects both the structure of their thinking and the depth of their understanding. Students should be writing in all their classes, explaining what they know and how...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Extended Writing to Learn Strategies
Writing enables students to process, organize, formulate, and extend their thinking about what they have been learning. In addition, teachers can also assign writing to help students evaluate what they know and understand about a topic....
AdLit
Ad lit.org: An Introduction to Analytical Text Structures
Many students are used to writing narratives - stories, description, even poetry, but have little experience with analytical writing. This article is an introduction to six analytical text structures, useful across content areas. See...
New York University
Reading 101: Education Overview
Although there is no title to this resource, it looks at the history of education. Discusses why schools were established, what they had to do with capitalism and the effects of education on individuals.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Visualizing Topography
This module helps students learn to identify terrain features on topographic maps. Students manipulate animations of hills, valleys, and cliffs to see the terrain from various angles. The module also provides instruction on how to read...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: American Flag History
In this cross-curricular activity, students create a trading card based on the symbols of the American flag, or any other national landmark. Writing for a specific purpose helps students carefully select their word choice.
Digital Dialects
Digital Dialects: Chinese Language
Study a variety of fundamental phrases and vocabulary of the Chinese language. Improve recognition and understanding the terms with the help of online games.
Other
World History Project: Cuneiform
Read a brief history of cuneiform, the most widely used and historically significant writing system of the ancient Middle East. Also learn about how cuneiform spread from one ancient culture to another.
Other
Speech, Music and Hearing: Historical Linguistics
A brief definition of the term historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines. This site is a good starting point for studying and comparing languages
Other
The History of Writing
This explanation of the history of writing traces writing from the use of "Counting tokens," to the development of the Roman alphabet. The pictures of how writing has progressed over time is very interesting and helpful.
Other
Reading Skills for Academic Study
Designed for university students in the United Kingdom but applicable to English and advanced ESL students in other countries, this tutorial provides strategies and skills for required academic reading loads.
Other
Lee College: Elements of Reasoning [Pdf]
A slide presentation providing definitions and details on the three dimensions of thinking and eight elements of reasoning. Views will also find activities and questions to gain deeper understanding of the psychology of thinking.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Chomsky's and Skinner's Theory of Language Acquisition
Includes short profiles of Noam Chomsky and B. F. Skinner, details of their ideas on language acquisition, the limitations of each perspective, and a chart of similarities and differences between their theories.
Other
Yukon College: Reading & Writing Academic Articles [Pdf]
This detailed guide provides background information about the purpose and structure of journal articles, then walks the reader step-by-step through the reading process. Additional resources are included.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Analysis
This page explains that analysis is crucial to the success of a paper as it answers the questions how and why and shows the reader that the writing is knowledgable. Logic and development work together to make the analysis clear. Examples...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Where to Find Information
This page focuses on where to find information needed for writing papers: the library or the internet. It offers tips for using search engines and key words.
University of Chicago
Ancient Mesopotamia: Math and Measurement: Cuneiform [Pdf]
In this lesson plan students create and post a chart of the cuneiform symbols for numerals and create their own charts. Then students use the cuneiform numerals to answer questions.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Power Notes
A printable note-taking format where students create an outline by assigning powers to the main idea and supporting details. Directions on how to use this type of rubric as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Weaving the Multigenre Web
Young scholars analyze the elements of a novel in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Websites.