Flipped English Classroom Ideas | High School Special Ed Classrooms
Flipped teaching or a flipped classroom is a form of blended learning in which students learn new content online by watching video lectures, usually at home, and what used to be homework (assigned problems) is now done in class with teachers offering more personalized guidance, tutoring and interaction with students, instead of lecturing. This is also known as backwards classroom or flipped classroom. Wiki
A few things I would do If I was teaching a High School Special Education English Class!
Flipped teaching or a flipped classroom is a form of blended learning in which students learn new content online by watching video lectures, usually at home, and what used to be homework (assigned problems) is now done in class with teachers offering more personalized guidance, tutoring and interaction with students, instead of lecturing. This is also known as backwards classroom or flipped classroom. Wiki
A few things I would do If I was teaching a High School Special Education English Class!
- First Flip your Classroom! Hard Stuff is Done in Class | Easy, Fun Stuff is Done at Home!
Shakespeares Plays
- Create a series of single page Socratic Seminars that include modeled reading fluency videos
- In class have your students help make simple videos of students or teachers reading the one page socratic passages, the goal being your students will be practicing fluency to make their own videos
- Use your class time to practice and model Socratic seminars and that include introspective discussions on amazing topics
- Use class time to create, discuss, question, analyze, and act out elements of fiction or non-fiction
- Usually you will have more boys in a Special Education High School English Class, so have them read and discuss high interest topics like the treatise Sun Tzu Art of War
- The students should use the videos as reading fluency homework to increase word recognition, speed and accuracy, predicting syntax, practice reading fluency with expression. The video is used as the guide and models quality reading. The goal is increase reading fluency weekly by five extra words per week
- Play literacy games that teach literary elements, text features and reading comprehension skills.
Grade Level Fluency Goals
Digital Resources to Make Flipped Classroom Videos
ScreenChomp app for Android and Ipod
Free online screen recorder for one-click recording for free | They have free apps also for all devices
Screencast-O-Matic - Free online screen recorder for instant ...
This is a sample Screencast-O-Matic that took literally 5 minutes to make and upload to Youtube! The Videos do not need to be great, time consuming, expensive, they are best when made by the classroom teacher for their individual students.
The Legendary Lands is a fun way for students to study Tier 3 Academic Vocabulary! The Game is Free and is one reason 95% of my class passes the EOG reading test! "The Legendary Lands"
Flipped Classroom Bell Ringer!
501 Reading Comprehension Questions Complete book
on Reading Comprehension Strategies and Yes 501 Reading
Comprehension Questions.
501 GRAMMAR AND WRITING QUESTIONS
501 Critical Reading Questions
501 Sentence Completion Questions
More Resources for Creating High School Socratic Reading Passages
Grade Level Nonfiction Passages | 8th-10th Grade Reading Level
Background Ideas: The original Brothers Grimm tales used brutal stories to teach life’s hardest lessons to our children so they would learn without the pain of experience. We live in a time when we are seeking instant gratification in all the things we do. The problem for many children today is, instant gratification is not fast enough and neither gratifying enough for many, so they lose motivation.
Philosophical Ideas: “By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.” Confucius
Sun Tzu Wu was a native of the state of Ch`i. His ART OF
WAR brought him to the notice of Ho Lu, King of Wu. Ho
Lu said to him: "I have carefully perused your 13 chapters.
May I submit your theory of managing soldiers to a slight test?"
Sun Tzu replied: "You may."
- 1st 80 Words Correct Per Minute
- 2nd 140 WCPM
- 3rd 160
- 4th 180
- 5th 195
- 6th 205
- 7th 210
- 8th 215
Digital Resources to Make Flipped Classroom Videos
ScreenChomp app for Android and Ipod
Free online screen recorder for one-click recording for free | They have free apps also for all devices
Screencast-O-Matic - Free online screen recorder for instant ...
This is a sample Screencast-O-Matic that took literally 5 minutes to make and upload to Youtube! The Videos do not need to be great, time consuming, expensive, they are best when made by the classroom teacher for their individual students.
The Legendary Lands is a fun way for students to study Tier 3 Academic Vocabulary! The Game is Free and is one reason 95% of my class passes the EOG reading test! "The Legendary Lands"
Flipped Classroom Bell Ringer!
501 Reading Comprehension Questions Complete book
on Reading Comprehension Strategies and Yes 501 Reading
Comprehension Questions.
501 GRAMMAR AND WRITING QUESTIONS
501 Critical Reading Questions
501 Sentence Completion Questions
More Resources for Creating High School Socratic Reading Passages
Grade Level Nonfiction Passages | 8th-10th Grade Reading Level
- An African Heritage in Chicago identify and support the main idea in a nonfiction passage
- Bold Plans, Big Dreams, City Progress identify and support the theme of a text
- Changing the Ecosystem infer and support the main idea of a passage
- Changing the Ecosystem with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities
- Chicago is a City of Possibilities: Deval Patrick, Leader for Chicago analyze a text and write an extended response based on it
- Deval Patrick's Acceptance Speech infer and support the main idea of a passage
- George Washington Carver
- Gwendolyn Brooks, An African American Poet
- Honest Abe infer and support the main idea of a passage
- Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea
- Inferential Questions: Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech
- Labor Day Address--Barack Obama Speech infer and support the main idea of a passage
- Learn about Physical Therapists evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea
- Learn about South Africa evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea
- Maintaining Cultural Continuity infer and support the main idea of a passage
- New Leadership analyze a speech
- Settlement infer and support the main idea of a passage
- Settlement with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities
- Transportation Changes infer and support the main idea of a passage
- What is Your Own Big Plan? (Barack Obama speech) analyze a text and respond to the issues it presents, write an extended response to a persuasive text
- What Values Have Shaped Chicago? identify the main idea of a passage
- Why is Community Service Important? identify the main idea and supporting information
- Chicago High Schools infer predictions
- Chicago Legacy: DuSable's Choices and Changes infer and support the main idea of a passage
- Deval Patrick's Acceptance Speech infer and support the main idea of a passage
- Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech
- Frederick Douglass Speech on Women's Suffrage
- John F. Kennedy's Remarks in the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin
- Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
- President Barack Obama's Speech to Students
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
Sample Teacher Made Socratic Reading Passage
Background Ideas: The original Brothers Grimm tales used brutal stories to teach life’s hardest lessons to our children so they would learn without the pain of experience. We live in a time when we are seeking instant gratification in all the things we do. The problem for many children today is, instant gratification is not fast enough and neither gratifying enough for many, so they lose motivation.
Philosophical Ideas: “By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.” Confucius
Sun Tzu Wu was a native of the state of Ch`i. His ART OF
WAR brought him to the notice of Ho Lu, King of Wu. Ho
Lu said to him: "I have carefully perused your 13 chapters.
May I submit your theory of managing soldiers to a slight test?"
Sun Tzu replied: "You may."
Ho Lu asked: "May the test be applied to girls?"
The answer was again in the affirmative, so arrangements
were made to bring 180 handmaidens out of the Palace. Sun Tzu
divided them into two companies, and placed one of the King's
favorite handmaidens at the head of each. He then bade them
all take spears in their hands, and addressed them thus: "I
presume you know the difference between front and back, right
hand and left hand?"
The girls replied: Yes.
The answer was again in the affirmative, so arrangements
were made to bring 180 handmaidens out of the Palace. Sun Tzu
divided them into two companies, and placed one of the King's
favorite handmaidens at the head of each. He then bade them
all take spears in their hands, and addressed them thus: "I
presume you know the difference between front and back, right
hand and left hand?"
The girls replied: Yes.
Sun Tzu went on: "When I say "Eyes front," you must
look straight ahead. When I say "Left turn," you must face
towards your left hand. When I say "Right turn," you must
face towards your right hand. When I say "About turn," you
must face right round towards your back."
Again the girls assented. The words of command having
been thus explained, he set up the halberds and battle-axes
in order to begin the drill. Then, to the sound of drums, he
gave the order "Right turn." But the girls only burst out
laughing. Sun Tzu said: "If words of command are not clear
and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then
the general is to blame."
So he started drilling them again, and this time gave
the order "Left turn," whereupon the girls once more burst
into fits of laughter. Sun Tzu: "If words of command are
not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly
understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders ARE
clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the
fault of their officers."
So saying, he ordered the leaders of the two companies
to be beheaded. Now the king of Wu was watching the scene
from the top of a raised pavilion; and when he saw that his
favorite handmaidens were about to be executed, he was greatly
alarmed and hurriedly sent down the following message: "We
are now quite satisfied as to our general's ability to handle
troops. If We are bereft of these two handmaidens, our meat
and drink will lose their savor. It is our wish that they
shall not be beheaded."
Sun Tzu replied: "Having once received His Majesty's
commission to be the general of his forces, there are certain
commands of His Majesty which, acting in that capacity, I am
unable to accept."
Accordingly, he had the two leaders beheaded, and
straightway installed the pair next in order as leaders in
their place. When this had been done, the drum was sounded
for the drill once more; and the girls went through all the
evolutions, turning to the right or to the left, marching
ahead or wheeling back, kneeling or standing, with perfect
accuracy and precision, not venturing to utter a sound. Then
Sun Tzu sent a messenger to the King saying: "Your soldiers,
Sire, are now properly drilled and disciplined, and ready for
your majesty's inspection. They can be put to any use that
their sovereign may desire; bid them go through fire and
water, and they will not disobey."
But the King replied: "Let our general cease drilling
and return to camp. As for us, We have no wish to come down
and inspect the troops."
Thereupon Sun Tzu said: "The King is only fond of
words, and cannot translate them into deeds."
After that, Ho Lu saw that Sun Tzu was one who knew how
to handle an army, and finally appointed him general. In the
west, he defeated the Ch`u State and forced his way into
Ying, the capital; to the north he put fear into the States
of Ch`i and Chin, and spread his fame abroad amongst the
feudal princes. And Sun Tzu shared in the might of the King.
Why is the author sharing this story with the reader?
look straight ahead. When I say "Left turn," you must face
towards your left hand. When I say "Right turn," you must
face towards your right hand. When I say "About turn," you
must face right round towards your back."
Again the girls assented. The words of command having
been thus explained, he set up the halberds and battle-axes
in order to begin the drill. Then, to the sound of drums, he
gave the order "Right turn." But the girls only burst out
laughing. Sun Tzu said: "If words of command are not clear
and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then
the general is to blame."
So he started drilling them again, and this time gave
the order "Left turn," whereupon the girls once more burst
into fits of laughter. Sun Tzu: "If words of command are
not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly
understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders ARE
clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the
fault of their officers."
So saying, he ordered the leaders of the two companies
to be beheaded. Now the king of Wu was watching the scene
from the top of a raised pavilion; and when he saw that his
favorite handmaidens were about to be executed, he was greatly
alarmed and hurriedly sent down the following message: "We
are now quite satisfied as to our general's ability to handle
troops. If We are bereft of these two handmaidens, our meat
and drink will lose their savor. It is our wish that they
shall not be beheaded."
Sun Tzu replied: "Having once received His Majesty's
commission to be the general of his forces, there are certain
commands of His Majesty which, acting in that capacity, I am
unable to accept."
Accordingly, he had the two leaders beheaded, and
straightway installed the pair next in order as leaders in
their place. When this had been done, the drum was sounded
for the drill once more; and the girls went through all the
evolutions, turning to the right or to the left, marching
ahead or wheeling back, kneeling or standing, with perfect
accuracy and precision, not venturing to utter a sound. Then
Sun Tzu sent a messenger to the King saying: "Your soldiers,
Sire, are now properly drilled and disciplined, and ready for
your majesty's inspection. They can be put to any use that
their sovereign may desire; bid them go through fire and
water, and they will not disobey."
But the King replied: "Let our general cease drilling
and return to camp. As for us, We have no wish to come down
and inspect the troops."
Thereupon Sun Tzu said: "The King is only fond of
words, and cannot translate them into deeds."
After that, Ho Lu saw that Sun Tzu was one who knew how
to handle an army, and finally appointed him general. In the
west, he defeated the Ch`u State and forced his way into
Ying, the capital; to the north he put fear into the States
of Ch`i and Chin, and spread his fame abroad amongst the
feudal princes. And Sun Tzu shared in the might of the King.
Why is the author sharing this story with the reader?
Rank the five most important ideas that the author shares in the reading passage
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