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Words Matter: Common Assignment 3 (LDC Task and Module) For Teachers
This is the LDC Task and Module section (for teachers) of Words Matter, a unit that helps students understand how words can carry multiple layers of meaning, as well as the way in which authors select words to convey deeper meaning. For easy use, files are available in PDF and Word.
Here’s what we know: Implementing a comprehensive, standards-aligned curriculum is a complex undertaking, even in a typical, in-person classroom. There are new pedagogical approaches to consider, texts and topics to unpack, instructional shifts to practice, academic routines to introduce, and the list goes on.
We all learn in different ways. And when it comes to preparing students with the skills they need to succeed in the 21<sup>st</sup> century, teachers are always looking for new, innovative tools to use in the classroom.
Dan Ryder teaches high school English and humanities, but his students still wind up learning computer-aided design and 3D printing. In his classes at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington, Maine, Ryder has students design and build 3D “fidgets” after learning about the impact of stress and studying social entrepreneurship.
Aug 11, 2017
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