Lesson+ideas

Picture books - Art meets literature
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TEFLclips]] Welcome to teflclips, a site dedicated to the possibilities for YouTube and other video sharing sites in the classroom. Every week a new lesson plan will be uploaded  [|**Noticing things**] **An awareness test video and discussion/activities.

Define a word using video** - Use examples from [|Wordia,] the video dictionary (note: this dictionary is in beta) Browse [|existing word videos] Here's an example: the word [|'fermata'] You could choose a word and make your own word video. Watch some examples and discuss what makes the best ones stand out from the rest, or how could one be improved.

[|**The New York Times Learning Network**] Read about it [|here].

[|Storystarters] Although this is aimed at primary level, it could definitely be lots of fun and writing practice with a difference for middle years.

[|Word Tree] A word tree is a visual search tool for unstructured text, such as a book, article, speech or poem. It lets you pick a word or phrase and shows you all the different contexts in which it appears. The contexts are arranged in a tree-like branching structure to reveal recurrent themes and phrases.  [|Famous last words of fictional characters] Open to possibilities for lesson ideas and projects (even film, Voicethread, digital storytelling)

[|Book celebration day] Susanne Nobles is an English teacher in USA and has a wonderful blog where she documents her English classes and shares what her students are doing. In this post, she describes what she does for book celebration day.

[|New York Stories] a new digital real-life story is added each week. Possibility for discussion of issues, etc.

[|Hypertext] Here's an example for King Lear. This was taken from [|Susan Carter Morgan's blog post].

[|66 inspiring videos to use in the classroom] different types of videos with suggestions about how to use them in class.

[|Build a writing community] [|**Laurie Halse Anderson**], author of young adult novels including //Speak// and //Wintergirls//, launched [|**a writing challenge on her blog**] this month: Write Fifteen Minutes a Day, or WFMAD. Anderson invites readers to spend 15 minutes writing every day during the month. She provides writing prompts, advice, and encouragement. All readers have to do is set aside 15 uninterrupted minutes and write.