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Essay e-Comments

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Free Resources to Teach Critical Thinking

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Daniel Baker commented on Mark Pennington's group 'Reading Intervention Teachers'

Some reading intervention at www.iep4u.com IEP4U.COM has over 4000 Goals and Objectives (IEP-ITP) each with changeable benchmarks. The Idea Statements are spread out over seven subjects (Domains) and four functional levels (Limited Version).…

Oct 4, 2011

Mark Pennington replied to Melissa Y Mullin's discussion 'Developing a High School Reading Class'

Melissa, Having served as a remedial reading teacher at the high school level (M.A. Reading Specialist), I want to encourage you to start your course planning with your students. Each will have "flunked" their STAR reading test for…

Aug 13, 2011

Need Mac Help for e-Grading

Colleagues, At the start of summer I released a simple download of 438 essay e-comments for teachers to use to improve essay response and save time grading. Here's a sample comment:Revise: Too Many “to-be” Verbs Consider limiting use of is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been to one per paragraph. To replace “to be verbs” 1. Substitute a more active verb 2. Begin the sentence with another word from the sentence 3. Change one of the words in the sentence into a verb form.The …See More

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Mark Pennington replied to Mark Pennington's discussion 'Essay e-Comments'

John, No plans on the e-comments yet for Macs, though I think my 47-page The Pennington Manual of Style is worth a nickel on its own. As to the audio comments inserts, here's how. Teachers have been asking me for some examples of…

Jun 4, 2011

John Blaber replied to Mark Pennington's discussion 'Essay e-Comments'

Hi Mark, This looks like a very interesting way to improve efficiency and depth of teacher feedback on draft essays. Two questions: You note this works on Windows. Any plans for a Mac version? I've got OS X 10.6.7, and am running Word for Mac…

Jun 4, 2011

Essay e-Comments

Thought I'd share a five point rationale for having students submit essays online and a terrific resource I developed that has helped me save time grading essays while providing better quality comments this year for my seventh grade ELA students. Why Submitting Essays Online Makes Sense 1. Having students submit their essays on the computer enhances the interactive writing process and the social context of writing by facilitating reader response and writer revision.2. Submitting essays…See More

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Mark Pennington replied to Mark Pennington's discussion 'The Reading-Writing Connection'

Here's my second tip: 2. Teach Prior Knowledge What people already know is an essential component of good reading and writing. Content knowledgeis equally important as is skill acquisition to read and write well. Reading specialists…

Jan 8, 2011

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School / Work Affiliation: Seventh Grade Teacher/Educational Author

Blog: http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog

Website: http://www.penningtonpublishing.com

About Me: I'm an MA Reading Specialist father of three boys. My wife and I live in the California Gold Country.

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Should We Teach Standards or Children?

Posted on July 2, 2009 at 9:53am 4 Comments 0 Likes

This may well be professional suicide. But, it’s time to come out of the closet. I say I teach the standards, but I really teach children.

As an educational publisher and author, I sell books that address state and national standards in English-language Arts and reading. The standards-based movement has clearly taken over the publishing and educational establishment. For example, in California, a district cannot purchase programs with state-allocated district monies… Continue

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