Week 6
Hello everyone! I hope that everyone had a great break and is ready to get back into learning and teaching! While I was in school, writing papers and essays was one of my favorite activities because I loved the finished product. I used to make outlines and sample sentences and have people proof read all of my papers and I loved it! The tools from this unit were so interesting to me because they would have helped me to write more efficiently in school. Below are my favorites that were introduced this week! 1) idebate: This website allows students to select a hot debate topic and watch a video clip of the debate so they can view an example of a good debate. I would use this website for my 6th graders. I would pair them up and assign them a topic from the website and a side and have them prepare their own debates on the topics. https://idebate.org/debatabase 2) Annenberg Learner Spelling Bee: One of the cool things about this website is that it reads a story to the kids, which a...