Image Grammar

Get your students' creative juices flowing by showing them images on this site. Images include characters and setting. Try using one as a quick journal write.

Writer's Window

I stumbled across a great website when I was conducting research for my research paper. Writer's Window is a site where students can submit drafts of papers and receive comments from all over the world. I'll try it out and let you know! I'm pretty excited about it.

43Marks.com

With 43Marks, your bookmarks are displayed on one convenient homepage, organized by as many categories as you’d like. You can add, remove, and rearrange these bookmarks as you see fit. When you sign up for an account with 43Marks, you are given a unique URL that contains your username.

Grammar Girl

I love this website. Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. Whether English is your first language or second language, Grammar Girl’s punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Mignon Fogarty is the creator and host of Grammar Girl. Grammar Girl is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast. Explore Grammar Girl and incorporate some podcasts into your English lessons!

YouTube Grammar Rock

Watch this YouTube Grammar Rock video on prepositions. It got my students excited about learning boring prepositions.

Prepositional Phrases

Follow this link for assistance with prepositional phrases. Print out any quiz you take, and I will add 10 extra credit points to your lowest grade. If your printer does not work, have a parent sign your agenda stating that you took a quiz and reviewed the material on the link.

Sharing Presentations

I found the following website that "shares" all sorts of presentations. I found a presentation on phrases that I can use in my classroom when teaching appositive and prepositional phrases. I hope you find one you can use.

Technology rich lesson plans

Looking to integrate more technology into your curriculum? Having trouble finding the time to create a lesson plan? Explore Happy viewing!

Interwrite SchoolPad in Action

Mrs. Pettite, 8th grade math teacher on team 8-3, volunteered to assist me in creating a video for my MEDT 7470 class. Mrs. Pettite uses the Pad each day to engage our students. I wish I had a Pad of my own....

22 September 2008

This week my 8th graders will be revising and editing their favorite room papers. Please go to the following web page for assistance and practice with proofreading.

Gadget of the Week

Interwrite SchoolPad is a technology tool used by several teachers at my school. I observed a math teacher walking around the room writing on the Pad while monitoring student behavior.

15 September 2008

This week my students are writing about their favorite room in their house. I have posted some links to web pages (see left side of blog) that define supporting sentences. If you click on the links, you will be able to see good examples of supporting sentences. You will also be able to practice writing supporting sentences.

3 September 2008

Today we worked on a capitalization worksheet. Students worked in pairs to determine if words in a sentence need to be capitalized. They were required to list the rule used to determine if the word should be capitalized or not. Continue to use the capitalization link to the left in order to explore the rules.

September 2, 2008

I was absent today, so the students completed workbook pages on capitalization. Please check the link on capitalization rules under featured web sites. Please view the capitalization video under Grammar videos on left side of page.

My technology movie

This video summarizes my feelings towards technology integration.

Description of this blog

This blog will be used to review and reinforce what my 8th grade students are learning on a daily basis. If I am teaching grammar or mechanics, I will provide links to web pages that contain quizzes, tutorials, or explanations. I expect my students to discuss what concepts are still confusing, problems with homework, or check in after being absent.