Tag Archives: literacy

2016 Curriculum Units Vol 1: Literacy and Literacies in the 21st Century

Literacy in the 21st Century: Developing Amorphic Literacy

Melissa Ligh, English, North Mecklenburg High School

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2016 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Exploring Memoir - From Picture Book to Digital Story

Telling My Story

Melanie R. Moore, First Grade, David Cox Road Elementary School

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2016 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Exploring Memoir - From Picture Book to Digital Story

Mapping your Memoirs

Teresa Strohl, Art and Writing, Barringer Academic Center

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2016 CTI News Vol 8: Exploring Memoir - From Picture Book to Digital Story

Exploring Science through Memoir

Kassie Woodard, High School Science, William A Hough High School

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2016 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Exploring Memoir - From Picture Book to Digital Story

Memoir Behind the Bookcase – The Wonder of Anne Frank

Jennifer Dalesandro, Language Arts, Grades 3-6, Bain Elementary School

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2015 Vol 3: The Origins of Human Language

Ancient Forms of Communication in the Spanish Immersion Classroom: The Use of Pictograms and Rebuses to Promote the Development of Spanish Language Literacy

Adriana Hart, Kindergarten, Collinswood Language Academy

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2015 Vol 7: Africa: Moving Beyond Popular Culture

Accuracy in Africa: The Causes of the Sierra Leone Civil War as a Lens for Stereotypes of African Conflicts

Ian Joyce, Social Studies, Eastway Middle School

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2015 CTI News Vol 1: Exercise and the Brain

The Brain, Exercise, and Teaching Students of Poverty

Cassandra Black, PreK-8, Ashley Park

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Visual Storytelling in Children's and Young Adult literature

Visualizing the Story Through “Text”iles: Visual Storytelling

Barbara Wesselman, Apparel & Design, Northwest School of the Arts

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Visual Storytelling in Children's and Young Adult literature

A Life in Images

Mary Catherine Grant, Third Grade, David Cox Road Elementary School

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Visual Storytelling in Children's and Young Adult literature

Visual Storytelling & Cinderella

Angela Boyce-Thornton, Literacy, Ashley Park PreK-8 School

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 6: The Art of Fiction: Close Analysis, Style and the Novel

Realizing Close Reading: Helping Struggling Readers Progress from Strategy to Skill in the Social Studies Classroom

Calen Clifton, Social Studies, Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Human Agency

Using Biographies to Understand Choices

Cassandra Black, First Grade, Ashley Park Pre K-8 School

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2013 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Urban Encounters: Hispanic and African American Literature

Crafting Urban Stories Through Mixed Media

Gloria Brinkman, Visual Arts, North Mecklenburg High School

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Reading Media Imagery: Critical Thinking and Literacy

Increasing Media through Media Texts

Susan Sparks, English II, Independence High School

Final Unit (PDF)

Implementing Common Core Standards

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