Step 1: Read a book about seeds with a partner.
Step 2: Complete a rubric to evaluate your partner's reading skills like fluency, pitch, and use of punctuation.
Step 3: Write about something you learned from the book in your journal.
Step 1: Read a book called On Earth by G. Brian Karas with a partner.
Step 2: Complete a rubric to evaluate your partner's reading skills like fluency, use of pitch in their voice, and use of pauses at punctuation marks.
Step 3: Use puppets to demonstrate the different seasons.
To summarize a text, one must read it to understand, sort main points from details, and rephrase the main points in their own words without including details. The three steps are: 1) read for understanding, 2) annotate main points and details, and 3) rewrite the main points concisely checking punctuation. Self-assessment against criteria like readability and omitted details ensures an effective summary.
This document provides guidance on reading skills for students. It discusses various reading strategies and techniques including skimming, scanning, understanding text structure, identifying the author's viewpoint, determining word meanings, and summarizing. Specific techniques covered include using non-verbal cues, analyzing paragraph structure, understanding punctuation, making predictions, and inferring the author's perspective. The document stresses the importance of reading comprehension for both academic and professional success.
The document discusses various reading strategies to help understand texts. It identifies six key strategies: 1) Overviewing a passage to understand the topic and purpose before reading in detail, 2) Identifying the main point of each paragraph through summary sentences, 3) Understanding relationships between ideas using connectors like addition and sequence, 4) Checking references where words refer back to ideas mentioned earlier, 5) Finding specific information by focusing on the objective and key words, and 6) Guessing meanings of unknown words from context rather than using a dictionary. Mastering these strategies helps readers comprehend texts more effectively and efficiently.
The document provides guidance on organizing writing with an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. It stresses that writing should communicate thoughts and feelings with voice, and organizing ideas is important. Writing should introduce the subject in the first paragraph, elaborate on it in following body paragraphs, and conclude by tying the ideas together.
The document provides guidance on organizing writing with an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. It stresses that writing should communicate thoughts and feelings with voice, and organizing ideas is important. Writing should introduce the subject in the first paragraph, elaborate on it in following body paragraphs, and conclude by tying the written pieces together.
The document provides tips for strong writing. It advises that good writing starts from the paragraph level down to the word level. Introductions and conclusions should be general in nature to frame the more specific body paragraphs. Pronouns should be avoided when possible and replaced with nouns. Writers should read often, write frequently, and revise their work to improve their skills. Attention-grabbing introductions and coherent organization are important for engaging essays.
Step 1: Read a book called On Earth by G. Brian Karas with a partner.
Step 2: Complete a rubric to evaluate your partner's reading skills like fluency, use of pitch in their voice, and use of pauses at punctuation marks.
Step 3: Use puppets to demonstrate the different seasons.
To summarize a text, one must read it to understand, sort main points from details, and rephrase the main points in their own words without including details. The three steps are: 1) read for understanding, 2) annotate main points and details, and 3) rewrite the main points concisely checking punctuation. Self-assessment against criteria like readability and omitted details ensures an effective summary.
This document provides guidance on reading skills for students. It discusses various reading strategies and techniques including skimming, scanning, understanding text structure, identifying the author's viewpoint, determining word meanings, and summarizing. Specific techniques covered include using non-verbal cues, analyzing paragraph structure, understanding punctuation, making predictions, and inferring the author's perspective. The document stresses the importance of reading comprehension for both academic and professional success.
The document discusses various reading strategies to help understand texts. It identifies six key strategies: 1) Overviewing a passage to understand the topic and purpose before reading in detail, 2) Identifying the main point of each paragraph through summary sentences, 3) Understanding relationships between ideas using connectors like addition and sequence, 4) Checking references where words refer back to ideas mentioned earlier, 5) Finding specific information by focusing on the objective and key words, and 6) Guessing meanings of unknown words from context rather than using a dictionary. Mastering these strategies helps readers comprehend texts more effectively and efficiently.
The document provides guidance on organizing writing with an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. It stresses that writing should communicate thoughts and feelings with voice, and organizing ideas is important. Writing should introduce the subject in the first paragraph, elaborate on it in following body paragraphs, and conclude by tying the ideas together.
The document provides guidance on organizing writing with an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. It stresses that writing should communicate thoughts and feelings with voice, and organizing ideas is important. Writing should introduce the subject in the first paragraph, elaborate on it in following body paragraphs, and conclude by tying the written pieces together.
The document provides tips for strong writing. It advises that good writing starts from the paragraph level down to the word level. Introductions and conclusions should be general in nature to frame the more specific body paragraphs. Pronouns should be avoided when possible and replaced with nouns. Writers should read often, write frequently, and revise their work to improve their skills. Attention-grabbing introductions and coherent organization are important for engaging essays.
This document provides guidance on integrating quotations, revising essays, and submitting essays electronically. It discusses using signal phrases to introduce quotations, having a partner read and comment on essays using questions from a handout, addressing formal writing elements like thesis and evidence, and submitting essays through a Google Drive add-on called Kaizena that allows for audio and written feedback. Students are provided with their group code to submit essays for review and grading.
This document defines the structure and process of writing a paragraph. It explains that a paragraph contains a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and concluding sentence. The stages of writing a paragraph are prewriting, writing, editing, and publishing. Prewriting involves thinking about and organizing ideas. Writing turns ideas into sentences. Editing checks for mistakes. Publishing produces a final copy.
Adrian read chapter 2 of Hero aloud into a microphone to be recorded. He felt he used good expression but spoke too slowly and stopped too frequently due to a lack of confidence in public speaking. To improve, he plans to practice expression more, speak faster, and maintain confidence without pausing as much.
This document provides guidance and materials for students to plan and write a two-voice poem comparing the experiences of characters Salva and Nya from the novel A Long Walk to Water. It includes:
- Learning objectives about citing text evidence and analyzing a model poem
- Discussion of citing evidence and analyzing a model poem using a rubric
- Vocabulary about plagiarism and citing sources
- The poetry writing rubric
- Instructions to plan their own poem using evidence from an organizer and the rubric.
This document defines a precis as a 1/3 length summary that retains the essential ideas of the original text. It explains that a precis is a French word meaning summary, and the process of writing a precis involves carefully reading the passage multiple times, identifying the main theme, and writing an indirect summary in the third person past tense without adding new ideas or criticizing the original. The document advises limiting the precis to 1/3 the length of the original and using clear, factual expression without copying the original's style.
The document outlines a lesson plan for independent reading practice and response writing. Students will practice independent reading using books of their choice and fill out reading logs to document their reading. They will then write responses to reading prompts in their journals, with examples given for writing about fiction versus nonfiction texts. The teacher models writing a response using a randomly selected prompt before students independently write responses to prompts about texts they read that day.
Ally read Hero to chapter 3 aloud into a microphone. She used good punctuation and took breaths at periods, but held the book too high and mixed up or spoke too fast over some words. She felt scared being heard on the microphone due to being shy and soft-spoken. To improve, she needs to put the book down, speak more slowly and clearly so others can understand her better.
The document discusses plagiarism, defining it as copying verbatim the language and ideas of other writers and passing them off as one's own. There are two types of plagiarism: plagiarism of ideas, which occurs when one falsely takes credit for another's work, and plagiarism of language, which involves using another's words without proper citation. The document provides several methods for avoiding plagiarism, such as author-oriented citation, text-oriented citation, and using direct quotations, paraphrasing, or summarizing with proper attribution.
This document provides strategies for improving reading skills. It discusses rewriting a text in your own words while keeping the same meaning. It recommends reading the text without including personal feelings, and rewriting the ideas in the text while taking into consideration the original context, such as if it is a love letter. The goal is to practice summarization skills by restating the main points without changing the overall meaning.
The document provides guidance on how to conduct effective peer revision of writing. It outlines a three step process: [1] providing compliments to stay positive, [2] making suggestions for improvement, and [3] correcting spelling, grammar and punctuation errors. Students are instructed to focus feedback on strengthening the thesis, supporting reasons, use of evidence, elaboration and fluency. The goal is to help peers improve their writing while maintaining a constructive tone.
This document discusses run-on sentences and how to identify and fix them. A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined incorrectly without punctuation or a conjunction. There are two main types: fused sentences which have no punctuation or conjunction between clauses, and comma splices which join clauses with only a comma. The four main ways to fix a run-on sentence are using a period, semicolon, comma with a conjunction, or subordinating conjunction.
This document discusses the characteristics and structure of a good essay. It defines an essay as coming from the Latin word "exigere" meaning to examine or test. Essays improve personal skills like close reading and analysis. A good essay has unity of content, logical order, brevity while conveying the main idea, uses clear and ordinary language, and contains personal feelings related to the topic. The structure of an essay includes an introduction with a thesis statement, 3 body paragraphs supporting the thesis, and a conclusion summarizing the content in relation to the thesis.
This document provides guidance and instructions for students writing an essay about the theme of survival in the novel "A Long Walk to Water". It includes directions to take out materials for a 3 paragraph body essay, continue working on an essay plan, and learn about writing conclusions by examining a rubric and model essay. Students are then instructed to finish their essay plans, write an introduction and conclusion, and complete their draft essay for homework.
Haryono Arifin wrote a reflection letter to his writing instructor, Ms. Angela, thanking her for teaching him writing this semester. He felt he learned more from a native English speaker than a local instructor. While developing main ideas came easily to him, Haryono struggled with paragraph structure, grammar, thesis statements, and punctuation. By the end of the semester, he felt his writing ability had improved as he understood the importance of following writing conventions.
The document provides tips for active reading, including underlining and highlighting key points, taking notes in your own words, and using the SQ3R technique. The SQ3R technique involves surveying the text by reading titles, introductions, summaries, and headings to understand the overall structure and main ideas before reading in detail. Pausing after each section to summarize in your own words can help retain information more accurately.
The document provides instructions and learning targets for a class period focused on essay writing. Students are asked to take out homework for checking, review learning targets for the class, and discuss new vocabulary. They will then examine a rubric and use it to grade a sample essay. Students meet with partners to discuss the rubric and identify strengths in the essay. The document provides guidance on key elements of strong essays and exits with assigning a book report as homework.
This document provides guidance on structuring written work. It recommends giving the writing a title and organizing it into paragraphs in a clear manner. Typically, a writing should have three main parts - an introduction to introduce the subject, 2-3 body paragraphs to develop the ideas, and a conclusion that summarizes what was discussed and offers any opinions or suggestions.
The document discusses the differences between speaking and writing as forms of communication. Speaking is generally more informal, using short sentences, interjections, contractions and feedback is immediate. Writing is more formal with complex sentences, precise punctuation and organization with delayed feedback and interpretation. The relationship between sender and receiver impacts the communication form, as does the context and intended audience.
The document provides an overview of the key aspects to consider when writing an essay, including pre-writing, writing, and post-writing stages. During pre-writing, students are advised to plan their essay structure and gather information. When writing, they should pay attention to punctuation, spelling, word choice, and following a clear structure with topic sentences and supporting examples. After writing, students should revise their work, correct any errors, get peer feedback, and finalize their essay for submission.
This document provides strategies for effectively reading texts. It discusses asking questions before reading about the topic, purpose, and approach. It then outlines several reading strategies: 1) Overviewing a passage to understand the topic and purpose without reading word-for-word, 2) Identifying the main point of each paragraph through summary sentences, 3) Understanding relationships between ideas, 4) Checking for references between sentences, 5) Finding specific needed information, and 6) Guessing meanings of unknown words from context. These strategies aim to improve comprehension without getting stuck on every word.
This document provides an overview of reading skills and strategies for teaching reading. It defines reading as an active process of making sense of text that involves using one's background knowledge and understanding vocabulary, grammar, and text structure. It describes different purposes for reading, such as for pleasure or to find specific information. Key reading subskills discussed include scanning, skimming, reading for detail, and extensive reading. The document also outlines activities and considerations for designing effective reading lessons, including using introductory, main, and post-reading activities with appropriate texts and comprehension tasks.
This document provides guidance on integrating quotations, revising essays, and submitting essays electronically. It discusses using signal phrases to introduce quotations, having a partner read and comment on essays using questions from a handout, addressing formal writing elements like thesis and evidence, and submitting essays through a Google Drive add-on called Kaizena that allows for audio and written feedback. Students are provided with their group code to submit essays for review and grading.
This document defines the structure and process of writing a paragraph. It explains that a paragraph contains a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and concluding sentence. The stages of writing a paragraph are prewriting, writing, editing, and publishing. Prewriting involves thinking about and organizing ideas. Writing turns ideas into sentences. Editing checks for mistakes. Publishing produces a final copy.
Adrian read chapter 2 of Hero aloud into a microphone to be recorded. He felt he used good expression but spoke too slowly and stopped too frequently due to a lack of confidence in public speaking. To improve, he plans to practice expression more, speak faster, and maintain confidence without pausing as much.
This document provides guidance and materials for students to plan and write a two-voice poem comparing the experiences of characters Salva and Nya from the novel A Long Walk to Water. It includes:
- Learning objectives about citing text evidence and analyzing a model poem
- Discussion of citing evidence and analyzing a model poem using a rubric
- Vocabulary about plagiarism and citing sources
- The poetry writing rubric
- Instructions to plan their own poem using evidence from an organizer and the rubric.
This document defines a precis as a 1/3 length summary that retains the essential ideas of the original text. It explains that a precis is a French word meaning summary, and the process of writing a precis involves carefully reading the passage multiple times, identifying the main theme, and writing an indirect summary in the third person past tense without adding new ideas or criticizing the original. The document advises limiting the precis to 1/3 the length of the original and using clear, factual expression without copying the original's style.
The document outlines a lesson plan for independent reading practice and response writing. Students will practice independent reading using books of their choice and fill out reading logs to document their reading. They will then write responses to reading prompts in their journals, with examples given for writing about fiction versus nonfiction texts. The teacher models writing a response using a randomly selected prompt before students independently write responses to prompts about texts they read that day.
Ally read Hero to chapter 3 aloud into a microphone. She used good punctuation and took breaths at periods, but held the book too high and mixed up or spoke too fast over some words. She felt scared being heard on the microphone due to being shy and soft-spoken. To improve, she needs to put the book down, speak more slowly and clearly so others can understand her better.
The document discusses plagiarism, defining it as copying verbatim the language and ideas of other writers and passing them off as one's own. There are two types of plagiarism: plagiarism of ideas, which occurs when one falsely takes credit for another's work, and plagiarism of language, which involves using another's words without proper citation. The document provides several methods for avoiding plagiarism, such as author-oriented citation, text-oriented citation, and using direct quotations, paraphrasing, or summarizing with proper attribution.
This document provides strategies for improving reading skills. It discusses rewriting a text in your own words while keeping the same meaning. It recommends reading the text without including personal feelings, and rewriting the ideas in the text while taking into consideration the original context, such as if it is a love letter. The goal is to practice summarization skills by restating the main points without changing the overall meaning.
The document provides guidance on how to conduct effective peer revision of writing. It outlines a three step process: [1] providing compliments to stay positive, [2] making suggestions for improvement, and [3] correcting spelling, grammar and punctuation errors. Students are instructed to focus feedback on strengthening the thesis, supporting reasons, use of evidence, elaboration and fluency. The goal is to help peers improve their writing while maintaining a constructive tone.
This document discusses run-on sentences and how to identify and fix them. A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined incorrectly without punctuation or a conjunction. There are two main types: fused sentences which have no punctuation or conjunction between clauses, and comma splices which join clauses with only a comma. The four main ways to fix a run-on sentence are using a period, semicolon, comma with a conjunction, or subordinating conjunction.
This document discusses the characteristics and structure of a good essay. It defines an essay as coming from the Latin word "exigere" meaning to examine or test. Essays improve personal skills like close reading and analysis. A good essay has unity of content, logical order, brevity while conveying the main idea, uses clear and ordinary language, and contains personal feelings related to the topic. The structure of an essay includes an introduction with a thesis statement, 3 body paragraphs supporting the thesis, and a conclusion summarizing the content in relation to the thesis.
This document provides guidance and instructions for students writing an essay about the theme of survival in the novel "A Long Walk to Water". It includes directions to take out materials for a 3 paragraph body essay, continue working on an essay plan, and learn about writing conclusions by examining a rubric and model essay. Students are then instructed to finish their essay plans, write an introduction and conclusion, and complete their draft essay for homework.
Haryono Arifin wrote a reflection letter to his writing instructor, Ms. Angela, thanking her for teaching him writing this semester. He felt he learned more from a native English speaker than a local instructor. While developing main ideas came easily to him, Haryono struggled with paragraph structure, grammar, thesis statements, and punctuation. By the end of the semester, he felt his writing ability had improved as he understood the importance of following writing conventions.
The document provides tips for active reading, including underlining and highlighting key points, taking notes in your own words, and using the SQ3R technique. The SQ3R technique involves surveying the text by reading titles, introductions, summaries, and headings to understand the overall structure and main ideas before reading in detail. Pausing after each section to summarize in your own words can help retain information more accurately.
The document provides instructions and learning targets for a class period focused on essay writing. Students are asked to take out homework for checking, review learning targets for the class, and discuss new vocabulary. They will then examine a rubric and use it to grade a sample essay. Students meet with partners to discuss the rubric and identify strengths in the essay. The document provides guidance on key elements of strong essays and exits with assigning a book report as homework.
This document provides guidance on structuring written work. It recommends giving the writing a title and organizing it into paragraphs in a clear manner. Typically, a writing should have three main parts - an introduction to introduce the subject, 2-3 body paragraphs to develop the ideas, and a conclusion that summarizes what was discussed and offers any opinions or suggestions.
The document discusses the differences between speaking and writing as forms of communication. Speaking is generally more informal, using short sentences, interjections, contractions and feedback is immediate. Writing is more formal with complex sentences, precise punctuation and organization with delayed feedback and interpretation. The relationship between sender and receiver impacts the communication form, as does the context and intended audience.
The document provides an overview of the key aspects to consider when writing an essay, including pre-writing, writing, and post-writing stages. During pre-writing, students are advised to plan their essay structure and gather information. When writing, they should pay attention to punctuation, spelling, word choice, and following a clear structure with topic sentences and supporting examples. After writing, students should revise their work, correct any errors, get peer feedback, and finalize their essay for submission.
This document provides strategies for effectively reading texts. It discusses asking questions before reading about the topic, purpose, and approach. It then outlines several reading strategies: 1) Overviewing a passage to understand the topic and purpose without reading word-for-word, 2) Identifying the main point of each paragraph through summary sentences, 3) Understanding relationships between ideas, 4) Checking for references between sentences, 5) Finding specific needed information, and 6) Guessing meanings of unknown words from context. These strategies aim to improve comprehension without getting stuck on every word.
This document provides an overview of reading skills and strategies for teaching reading. It defines reading as an active process of making sense of text that involves using one's background knowledge and understanding vocabulary, grammar, and text structure. It describes different purposes for reading, such as for pleasure or to find specific information. Key reading subskills discussed include scanning, skimming, reading for detail, and extensive reading. The document also outlines activities and considerations for designing effective reading lessons, including using introductory, main, and post-reading activities with appropriate texts and comprehension tasks.
The document contains two rubrics to evaluate students' reading comprehension and writing skills. The first rubric is for evaluating an essay assignment and measures layout, language use, use of evidence, and coherence. The second rubric evaluates a reading assignment based on use of reading strategies, interpretation, analysis, and genre identification. Both rubrics assess students on a scale of excellent to unsatisfactory based on demonstration of skills taught in class.
The document contains two rubrics to evaluate students' reading comprehension and writing skills. The first rubric is for evaluating essays and measures layout, use of language, use of evidence, and coherence. The second rubric evaluates reading comprehension based on use of reading strategies, interpretation, analysis, and understanding of genres. Both rubrics assess students on a scale of excellent to unsatisfactory.
Reading, in very simple words, is the process of looking at a piece of written work, make out what is written on the page or sheet and understand what is written there.
Here, we have to make a distinction between reading silently and reading aloud. These two ways of reading have different purposes. Primarily, reading aloud is done to make others listen and understand and reading silently is to read "in the mind", so that we can understand, what we are reading, better. The teacher reading out a lesson or a story or a poem in the classroom is a good example for reading aloud. People reading the newspaper or a magazine at home or elsewhere is a good example of reading silently. In other words, reading aloud is aimed at improving our pronunciation while reading silently helps in improving our comprehension.
This document discusses reading skills and effective reading. It emphasizes that reading is an important way to improve English proficiency and gain confidence. It provides tips for becoming an effective reader, such as reading everyday, using a dictionary, and noting new words. The document also discusses qualities of good readers, such as concentration and maintaining proper posture. It notes that reading speed can vary depending on the purpose and difficulty of the text. Sub-skills of reading include comprehending meaning and locating main ideas and details. Bad reading habits like improper posture and unnecessary movements are also addressed.
This document discusses strategies to promote writing development for English language learners (ELLs) in 4th grade. It recommends using graphic organizers, modeling exemplary writing, using rubrics, and portfolio assessment. Graphic organizers can help ELLs brainstorm ideas and understand vocabulary. Modeling involves demonstrating the writing process. Rubrics clarify expectations. Portfolios allow students and teachers to track progress over time. Essential questions encourage higher-order thinking. The strategies connect to state, national, and technology standards.
The document outlines strategies that 2nd grade students use to figure out tricky words and comprehend what they are reading, including:
1) Breaking words into syllables or chunks and sounding them out part-by-part.
2) Trying different pronunciations of letters and words.
3) Using context clues like pictures, titles, and surrounding text.
4) Rereading passages aloud and checking for understanding.
5) Retelling parts of stories using transition words to check comprehension.
The document provides instructions for students to present their two-voice poems. It includes a rubric for students to be evaluated on their grammar and speaking techniques. It reminds students to focus on the reader during presentations and for audience members to show approval after each poem without distraction. Students are told to have a last practice with their partner and give feedback before performing their poems for the class. A self-reflection worksheet is also mentioned for students to provide honest feedback to the teacher.
The document outlines several benefits of developing reading sub-skills: 1) It helps readers associate sounds with symbols, recognize words, and become independent readers able to use references. 2) It allows readers to develop responses to texts and read with adequate understanding without rushing. 3) Developing strategies like skimming and scanning helps readers read silently and at appropriate speeds for different materials. Mastering these sub-skills prepares readers for professional and personal success.
The document discusses reading strategies and techniques for teaching reading. It provides assumptions about the nature of reading, including that readers need to understand some words to understand meaning and construct meaning from both bottom-up and top-down processes. It also outlines guidelines for beginning reading instruction, including starting with letters and their sounds before names. Various reading tasks and activities are proposed, such as pre-reading questions, summarizing, and representing the context through drawings or diagrams. Characteristics of efficient and inefficient reading are contrasted.
The document provides guidance on efficient reading. It discusses the importance of knowing one's reading purpose and choosing appropriate materials based on that purpose. Some tips covered include using titles, headings, blurbs, and other text features to evaluate relevance. The document also addresses improving reading speed while maintaining comprehension, assessing student reading levels, and choosing texts that are suitable, exploitable, readable, and authentic for language learners.
Support presentation for reading on three levels. Students first read the photographs, we distinguish between literal observations and subjective inferences, then we discuss the levels.
The document provided references for a works cited list on topics related to language acquisition and teaching English to speakers of other languages. It included 16 sources from 2006 to 2011 including books, journal articles, lecture notes, and web pages on topics like second language acquisition, principles of teaching English, language development in children, and academic English. The references were used to cite information and ideas in a paper or project related to theories of teaching English to speakers of other languages.
15 balli teacher version with my answersRanelle Cole
This document is an adapted version of the Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI) for teachers. It contains 46 statements about language learning that teachers are asked to rate their level of agreement with on a scale of 1 to 5. Some example statements include "Younger children learn a second language at a faster rate than older children" and "It is best to learn English in an English-speaking country." The inventory is designed to assess teachers' implicit beliefs about topics such as the difficulty of different languages, the role of grammar instruction, and factors that affect second language acquisition.
This document appears to be a title page for a paper or assignment on TESOL theory for an education course taught by Dr. Hellman and authored by Ranelle Cole. It provides the title of the paper/assignment, the course information, and the author's name but no other contextual details in the content.
This document discusses the importance of maintaining spiritual standards and not removing or modifying established "landmarks" or principles. It uses the biblical examples of maintaining physical land boundaries as an analogy for upholding doctrinal and behavioral standards. The key points are:
1) The Bible warns against removing landmarks or boundaries that were previously established. This applies to maintaining spiritual standards set forth in scripture.
2) Standards must be consistent and tie into the overall message, just as land surveys must connect to existing boundaries. Modifying standards risks deviating from the truth.
3) Believers should uphold high spiritual standards rather than lowering them to suit modern times. Individuals must conform to truth, not adjust truth to fit
The document describes Middle School Energizers, which are classroom-based physical activities developed by East Carolina University to help teachers provide students with daily physical activity breaks integrated with academic concepts. The Energizers were created in partnership with various North Carolina organizations to support implementation of the state's policy requiring at least 30 minutes of physical activity per day for students in grades K-8. Feedback from teachers who piloted the Energizers was positive, finding that the activities engaged students, reinforced learning, and provided physical and mental breaks.
The document describes Middle School Energizers, which are classroom-based physical activities developed by East Carolina University to help teachers in North Carolina meet the state's requirement of 50 minutes of daily physical activity for students in grades K-8. The Energizers were created in partnership with multiple state organizations to integrate movement with academic concepts. Teachers from various middle school subjects helped develop and pilot age-appropriate activities. The Energizers are available for free download on several partner websites.
The document provides information about "Energizers," which are classroom-based physical activities developed by researchers at East Carolina University in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The Energizers are designed to integrate physical activity into academic lessons for grades K-2 and provide teachers with directions and examples for 12 different physical activities. The activities range from having students move in different directions (e.g. over, under, around) to mimicking sports skills or following movement cues based on cards similar to UNO cards.
This certificate certifies that Ranelle Cole volunteered for 4 hours from February 3rd to February 12th, 2009 at the George A Spiva Center for the Arts. The volunteer hours included instructing and assisting third graders from the Joplin school district in two art lessons based on an exhibit, as well as set-up, clean-up, and working with Spiva Center of the Arts staff. The volunteer opportunity was facilitated by Meg Skaggs, the PR and Education Director at Spiva, and Josie Mai, an Assistant Professor of Art and Art Education at MSSU.
This document outlines a winter literature unit for elementary students. It includes a list of books about winter themes, an author study on Robert Munsch, and plans for language arts, math, science, social studies, music and PE activities related to winter. The unit incorporates reading, writing, listening, speaking and cross-curricular lessons and aims to develop students' understanding of winter through literature, hands-on projects and multimedia resources.
The document outlines a literature unit plan focused on dogs. It includes fiction and nonfiction books about dogs, as well as lessons, activities, and assessments across various subjects such as language arts, math, art, science, and physical education. The unit aims to teach students about dog characteristics, research different dog breeds, and express their understanding through projects involving reading, writing, art, music, and physical movement.
This document lists children's literature titles that can be used to support art lessons across different mediums and subjects, including 3D sculpture, aesthetics, animals, architecture, general art, and specific artists. Each book entry includes the title, author, illustrator, ISBN number, a brief description of how it could be used, and its subject category. There are over 40 book titles included that cover a wide range of visual art topics.
This document provides information about literacy work stations focused on the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Westward Expansion. It describes the materials, activities, learning objectives, and number of students for each of the following stations: Listening Station, Art Station, Game Station, Puppets Station, Reading Station, and Writing Station. The stations are designed to engage students in a variety of hands-on learning activities related to the topics, including listening to stories, creating art projects, playing educational games, acting with puppets, reading books, and developing writing skills.
This document is an introduction to an eBook containing 39 low-cost craft projects for decorating and organizing a kitchen on a budget. It includes crafts like kitchen clocks, crocheted kitchen items, cross-stitch patterns, fridge magnets, knitting projects, painted décor, and sewn items. The eBook is free to readers and members are encouraged to share it while also finding more craft ideas on the website.
Zeus tricks Prometheus and takes fire away from humans. Prometheus steals it back, angering Zeus. To take revenge, Zeus has Hephaestus create Pandora, the first woman. Pandora is given as a gift to Epimetheus with only one instruction - not to open the box Zeus also gave her. Curious, Pandora eventually opens the box, releasing all evils into the world such as disease, death, and hatred. All that remains inside is the spirit of hope.
The document provides modifications and strategies for teaching various language arts skills. It suggests using show and tell, providing editing checklists, and the COPS editing model to develop verbal language and proofreading skills. For reading, it recommends comprehension questions, character analysis, and picture walks. Suggestions for spelling, handwriting, and increasing word usage are also included, such as highlighting letter shapes and using word banks.
The document provides instructions for a student to print an unknown word, clap or stomp the word, and draw a picture of the word. No other context or information is given about the word or the purpose of the activity.
This document is a worksheet asking the student to look up an unknown word in the dictionary. It instructs them to write the word, define it in their own words, use it in a sentence, identify its part of speech, provide synonyms and antonyms, and draw a picture of the word.
The document is a worksheet asking the student to write a word, print it, write it in cursive, sound it out, identify its part of speech and page number in the dictionary, write its definition from the dictionary, provide their own definition, list two synonyms, and draw a picture of the word.
This document asks the reader to provide their name and then complete 3 tasks related to a word: draw a picture of the word, use it in a sentence, and define it while also writing the word in cursive.
This document is a worksheet asking a student to clap, stomp, and use their monster voice to say a word, then print the word, provide a definition, and count the consonants and vowels. It also asks the student to draw a picture of the word's meaning.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 2 – CoE RolesDianaGray10
In this session, we will review the players involved in the CoE and how each role impacts opportunities.
Topics covered:
• What roles are essential?
• What place in the automation journey does each role play?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...Fwdays
We will talk about system monitoring from a few different angles. We will start by covering the basics, then discuss SLOs, how to define them, and why understanding the business well is crucial for success in this exercise.
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
This talk will cover ScyllaDB Architecture from the cluster-level view and zoom in on data distribution and internal node architecture. In the process, we will learn the secret sauce used to get ScyllaDB's high availability and superior performance. We will also touch on the upcoming changes to ScyllaDB architecture, moving to strongly consistent metadata and tablets.
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
QA or the Highway - Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend appl...zjhamm304
These are the slides for the presentation, "Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend applications" that was presented at QA or the Highway 2024 in Columbus, OH by Zachary Hamm.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
👉 Register here for our upcoming Session 2 on June 20: Introduction to UiPath Studio Fundamentals: https://community.uipath.com/events/details/uipath-lagos-presents-session-2-introduction-to-uipath-studio-fundamentals/
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectors
Read with a friend plants
1. Listening
Step 1: Read The Nature and Science of Seeds by Burton and
Taylor with a partner.
Step 2: Complete the rubric below for your partner.
Step 3: Write in your journal one thing that you
learned from the book.
Listening to Others Read
Teacher Name: Kendra Smith
Your Name: ________________________________________
Your Partners Name: ___________________________________
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appropriate reading the text.
words.
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the text to show pause at correct to pause at the
different lengths times in the correct times
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their reading. the text.