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Download full textDabrowski, Joan – Education Trust, 2016
This follow-up report provides a revised Literacy Assignment Analysis Framework that incorporates discussion and teacher scaffolding. This new framework serves as a guidepost for studying sets of assignments across multiple days or weeks within a single classroom, school, or district. A closer look at more assignments from real classrooms provides…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Assignments, Writing Assignments, Literacy
Direct linkBlackburn, Barbara R. – Eye on Education, 2018
Learn how to differentiate instruction while maintaining a rigorous learning environment. In this practical book, rigor expert Barbara R. Blackburn shows that the differentiated classroom doesn't mean extra work for top students and easy work for others; instead, you can have high expectations for all students and provide scaffolding so that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Individualized Instruction, Difficulty Level, Educational Quality
Santelises, Sonja Brookins; Dabrowski, Joan – Education Trust, 2015
Prepared for school district and education leaders, "Checking In" is the first in the "Equity in Motion" series, which scrutinizes how issues of equity are translating into the daily activities of schools and educators. Nearly every state has adopted new, more rigorous standards for college and career readiness over the past…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Assignments, Writing Assignments, Literacy
Peer reviewedCrowhurst, Marion – Language Arts, 1979
Suggests that certain kinds of writing assignments encourage children to engage in writing at a higher than usual level of syntactic complexity. (DD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Syntax
Schlumberger, Ann; Clymer, Diane – 1987
While the populations of students learning writing in English as a second language (ESL) are diverse and have widely varying needs, three general recommendations to nonspecialist teachers of ESL pupils are to: (1) organize courses according to thematic unity; (2) limit the number of formal, polished essays assigned; and (3) encourage students to…
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction
Bertsche, Harriet; Silvestri, Holly – 1997
A series of both daily classroom activities and a long-term assignment in which secondary school language students actively use the Internet and the World Wide Web are described. Class activities target each of three proficiency levels (beginner, intermediate, advanced). They include having students check the weather, check out major…
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Current Events
Crookes, Graham, Ed.; Gass, Susan M., Ed. – 1993
Essays on second language teaching focuses on how the kinds of tasks performed by the learner relate to language output. "Choosing and Using Communication Tasks for Second Language Instruction" (Teresa Pica, Ruth Kanagy, Joseph Falodun) contains a taxonomy of communication task types, based on the concepts of goal and activity,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
