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Telescopic Text

  What it is:   Telescopic Text is a very simple website that could be very handy in the language arts classroom.  The site starts off with a very simple sentence: I made tea.  Each time you click on a word, the sentence expands adding adjectives, adverbs, and makes the sentence more interesting. How to integrate Telescopic Text into the classroom:  Use Telescopic Text to teach your students about creative, descriptive writing and how to improve writing with descriptive words.  Compare and contrast what students knew about the sentence “I made tea.” at the beginning and how each addition of words helped them understand more about the original statement.  This can be done as a whole class using an interactive whiteboard or a computer with a projector.  Students can take turns clicking on words to expand the statement with discussion after each addition.  This is a great exercise to use before writing.  Have the students write their own simple sentence and expand it into a story with the addition of descriptive words.     Tips:  The highlighted words are those that can be expanded by clicking.   Leave a comment and tell us how you are using Telescopic Text in your classroom.

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Lost Generation

Posted by admin | Posted in Character Education, Language Arts, Middle/High School, Teacher Resources, Websites, inspiration | Posted on 24-02-2009

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I came across this video recently on YouTube.  As I understand it, a 15 year old wrote this poem as part of a school assignment.  Amazing!  This video would be wonderful to use as inspiration for a teaching staff or with students.  It would be a great opener for a creative writing class! The video speaks for itself, I’m sure you’ll come up with great ideas for using this video with your students (share those great ideas with the rest of us). :)

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Comments (5)

Chris said on 25-02-2009

Thank you for providing such a hopeful start to my day! Yes, this should be shared with teachers and students and I will.
Maureen Schoenberger said on 25-02-2009

thanks for sharing! what a great poem by that student! i will be sharing it with my staff!
Sandra Thurau said on 27-02-2009

I thought this wonderful and so so so true-I recently had a 23rd anniversary of my divorce–what happens to families staying together both my parents and my ex’s were married over 50 years. I hope this is used in teaching others.
J Toa said on 01-03-2009

Brilliant! I have shared it with my 5th graders and some colleagues. kEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
Sherri T said on 01-03-2009

This is Wonderful!! How thought provoking and full of hope.

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