Shaping Our Brains Tweets of the Day 5/15/13

Kathleen Lanese, mother of Brendan and Kevin.

1. My Favorite Word is Mama

http://www.autismspeaks.org/blog/2013/05/12/my-favorite-word-mama?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AutismSpeaksBlog+%28Autism+Speaks+|+Official+Blog%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo 

2. College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182599588/college-divestment-campaigns-creating-passionate-environmentalists?ft=1&f=1013 

3. After The Lesson, Your Brain Keeps Processing What You’ve Learned

http://anniemurphypaul.com/2013/04/after-the-lesson-is-over-your-brain-keeps-processing-what-youve-learned/ 

4. Harvard Wants to Know: How Does the Act of Making Shape Kids’ Brains?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/11/harvard-wants-to-know-how-does-making-shape-kids-brains/

5. Why Do We Have to Write Today?

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/why-we-have-to-write-todd-finley 

6. Interactive LD Checklist

http://www.ncld.org/learning-disability-resources/checklists-worksheets/interactive-ld-checklist 

7. Higher Order Questions: A Path to Deeper Learning

Grades 6-8, ELA, Literature

Common Core Standards: ELA.RL.6.1 ELA.RL.6.5 ELA.SL.6.1c 

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-higher-order-thinking-skills 

These are some great Sixth graders discussing literature.