Monica Creates

  Why Use PowerPoint Presentations  for Lesson Plans? I can hear you now, "You really expect me to add yet another new way of doing something as simple as lessons and lesson plans?" . I've been where you are. When creating new lessons or teaching previously taught concepts, I  was always hunting down all the materials, resources, rubrics, center activities, etc.. I was determined to find a way to combine all these materials into a single spot.  This One Spot needed to be   Easy to Update and must  Actively Engage Students  To this end, I found myself creating  PowerPoint   Presentations  that  included   visuals  and/or   and/or   animation, links to   online activities ,  sentence frames , and  all associated materials .  Why Use PowerPoint?     •  A llow for  multi-modality  (multi-sensory)  instruction •   A ccompany and compliment  oral delivery • ...

                                      What Are WORD  SORTS?  A word sort is an individual or small group activity in which students sort words by linking to their prior knowledge. The sorts advance student knowledge, are active and fun, are an analytical and implicit approach to learning, are beneficial to ELL students, as well as being supported by research. Words Sorts benefit all students and can be used across the curriculum for a variety of topics.  BENEFITS OF WORD  SORTS Promote oral language development Students need to say and/or spell words and justify their categorization. Interactive. Students do the work; they manipulate the words and explain their rational. Build on prior knowledge. Students use what they know as a basis their choices.  Promote oral language development Students need to say and/or spell words and justify their categorization. Interactive....

                                      ~Screen Recording~                                          Why do this…          How to do this      A few weeks ago , I was experimenting with different ways to advertise and promote my teaching resources. Since I don’t idle well, am retired, and considering the current state of the world; I definitely had time on my hands. So playing on the laptop has become) my current hobby. I have created and implemented screen- shots, a series of screenshots, taken videos of the resource in action, and so on. They were ok, but not something I wanted to ‘put out there’. Eventually, I landed on recording the screen (displaying the resource to promote) and talking about not only the r...