Text2Reader Resources February 2012

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Exercise 1A: Making Meaning
Learn more about writing good dialogue on the following websites:

Writing Character's Dialogue from Screenplay.Lifetips
Dialogue: Just the Way We Talk from Blood Red Pencil
Seven Keys to Writing Good Dialogue from Nathan Bransford's blog
Dialogue and Detail from Peder Hill

Exercise 1B: Write It Down—Creating Believable Dialogue
Want to see amazing dialogue in action? Check out these YouTube clips. Don't just listen; watch the characters. Think about the words you would use to describe their actions and facial expressions as the conversation progresses.

Exercise 2C: Extending the Learning
Watch these short movies on climate change. Grab a few friends and talk about what you watch, using the following questions to guide your discussion.

Green For All (2 min)
Neglected Sky (2 min)

Exercise 2D: Using Your Intelligence

Five Ways Climate Change Affects Health from the Natural Resources Defense Council

Teaching Approaches for Addressing Multiple Intelligences

Teaching Methods from Teacher Vision

Exercise 3B: The Graphic Tutorial
Create your own illustrated how-to with help from the following sources.

Make your own comic at the Media Meltdown website
Free comic creation for students (for schools too!) at Pixton.com

Exercise 4B: Extending the Learning
Team up with a partner to take an existing Wikipedia entry from a mere stub to a well-researched, fully-fleshed article.

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