Developed in association with child psychologists, BIG TEST Success enhances test performance by using humor to teach kids how to cope with test anxiety. When Kenny and Page are “accidentally” zapped directly into the brain of an anxious kid, they help him cope from the inside out with deep breathing exercises, relaxation techniques and positive visualization skills. The series of 15 short (3 minutes each) videos helps kids deal with worry, negative voices, perfectionism, fear, and procrastination.

Developed in association with child psychologists, BIG TEST Success enhances test performance by using humor to teach kids how to cope with test anxiety. When Kenny and Page are “accidentally” zapped directly into the brain of an anxious kid, they help him cope from the inside out with deep breathing exercises, relaxation techniques and positive visualization skills. The series of 15 short (3 minutes each) videos helps kids deal with worry, negative voices, perfectionism, fear, and procrastination.

Developed in association with child psychologists, BIG TEST Success enhances test performance by using humor to teach kids how to cope with test anxiety. When Kenny and Page are “accidentally” zapped directly into the brain of an anxious kid, they help him cope from the inside out with deep breathing exercises, relaxation techniques and positive visualization skills. The series of 15 short (3 minutes each) videos helps kids deal with worry, negative voices, perfectionism, fear, and procrastination.

Developed in association with child psychologists, BIG TEST Success enhances test performance by using humor to teach kids how to cope with test anxiety. When Kenny and Page are “accidentally” zapped directly into the brain of an anxious kid, they help him cope from the inside out with deep breathing exercises, relaxation techniques and positive visualization skills. The series of 15 short (3 minutes each) videos helps kids deal with worry, negative voices, perfectionism, fear, and procrastination.

This video segment from Wild TV takes a closer look at backyard bugs, their habitat and characteristics.

As teachers need to consider long and short writing, formal and informal, in a variety of genres, this article focuses on and gives examples of short writing tasks that can still help students explore learning and write effectively.

In this English Journal article, Bardine et al. apply research on teacher commenting practices (e.g., appearance comments vs. function comments) to the experiences of student writers in the secondary English classroom. They offer suggestions about how to use comments and response to writing more effectively to support student learning in the classroom.

Online OER text adapted for use in ENGL 101 - Rhetoric & Composition by Amber Kinonen, Jennifer McCann, Todd McCann, and Erica Mead for Bay College.

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Online OER text adapted for use in ENGL 145 - ENGL 145 Technical and Report Writing by Amber Kinonen for Bay College.

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In this lesson, students will collaboratively investigate some datasets and use visualization tools to “discover a data story.” The lesson assumes that students know how to use some kind of visualization tool - in the previous lesson we used the charting tools of a basic spreadsheet program. Students should be working with a partner but without much teacher hand-holding. Most of the time should be spent with students poking around the data and trying to discover connections and trends using data visualization tools. It is up to them to discover a trend, make a chart, and accurately write about it.

In this English Journal article, Chanski and Ellis discuss a teacher inquiry project that took place in an AP English class where the teacher supported students in learning to give meaningful peer evaluation to each other’s writing. They describe strategies that make the experience meaningful for student writers.

The book in its whole provides a thorough and accessible approach to understanding genre and its application in classrooms. Chapter 11 explains applications to teaching.

The book in its whole provides a thorough and accessible approach to understanding genre and its application in classrooms. Chapter 6 focuses on the rhetorical understanding of genre.

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, highlights resources that help elementary teachers learn about climate change and teach their students important foundational concepts.

In this lesson, students explore how writers use sensory imagery as a literary device to make text more meaningful for the reader. They begin by using all of their senses to describe known objects such as pasta, chocolate, or grapes. Students first feel and listen to the object, in a bag, before then taking it out of the bag to look at, smell, and taste it. They then use at least three senses to write a poem about the object they've described. Next, they evaluate how this literary device functions in Pat Mora's poem “Echoes.” As students read this poem, they look for sensory images and write an explanation of how these images contribute to the meaning of Mora's poem. Finally, students think about how sensory images work in their own poems and then make appropriate revisions to their work.

This Composition Reader is an edited, curated collection of OER material for you to use as you see fit in your course.  It consists of personal essays, literature, video and audio files, web writing, and long-form journalism.

This lesson plan is the fourth in the "Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating Community" series.It provides a video of the poet, Edward Hirsch, offering a little backstory, then reading the poem "Cotton Candy." The companion lesson contains a sequence of activities for use with secondary students before, during, and after reading to help them enter and experience the poem.

Reading and creating comic strips and comic books are engaging ways to promote literacy at any grade level and across content areas. The students in this video are members of a high school comic book club and have access to drawing tablets and Adobe Photoshop, so they can achieve sophisticated results. Even without such software, however, teachers can still integrate digital comics into a wide range of teaching situations.

There are a number of comic books, especially contemporary ones, that are not “school appropriate,” so you might want to guide students’ web research on comic books.

In elementary school, someone may have taught you to “hook a reader” by starting an essay with a definition. This has become pretty cliched and not engaging. But readers do need to have things defined for them. And while definitions may not help us start a piece of writing, they can help us structure a writing by bridging the introduction and the body. In this video, You’ll learn a move writers in all genre use -- the definition hinge structure -- to provide crucial context for readers while moving them from the introduction into the main ideas of your writing.

In this lesson, students will learn about the effects of deforestation and why people cut down trees. The will transfer the learned knowlede into a paragraph that includes a topic sentence, facts and details from the resources, and a concluding sentence.