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The Place of Phonics. How to learn the letters and sounds of the Alphabet. Starfall's Learn to Read with phonics. Phonics activities on Pinterest. Phonics worksheets and online phonics games | free phonics worksheets and workbooks from Fun Fonix. Lesson Plans and Activities for Teaching Phonics. Want to try phonics in your classroom but don't know where to start? These free resources, including lessons and activities, will help you use phonics to promote reading success. Professional Development Resources Explicit Systemic Phonics by Wiley Blevins (PDF) This detailed article describes the critical components of a good phonics lesson.

Preventing Reading Failure This Q&A provides information on how to integrate phonics lessons with teaching reading. Decoding Multisyllabic Words by Wiley Blevins This article from Instructor Magazine provides the information you need to start teaching your class about syllable spelling patterns. Professional Workshop Review our summer workshop, "Supporting Emergent Literacy: Developing Story Language Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics.

" Spelling Strategies: Make Smart Use of Sounds and Spelling Patterns This article from Instructor Magazine offers advice on how to build phonemic awareness as a base for spelling skills. Online Activities Which Letter? Useful Websites. Adding images to your site! Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills | This and That... The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills. You just have to know where to look. Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites where you can learn new skills , but I figured I’d save you some time. Here are the top 40 sites I have personally used over the last few years when I want to learn something new. Hack a Day - Hack a Day serves up fresh hacks (short tutorials) every day from around the web and one in-depth ‘How-To hack’ guide each week.eHow - eHow is an online community dedicated to providing visitors the ability to research, share, and discuss solutions and tips for completing day-to-day tasks and projects.Wired How-To Wiki - Collaborate with Wired editors and help them build their extensive library of projects, hacks, tricks and tips.

50 Tricks to Study Better, Faster and with Less Stress. Studying isn’t one task, it’s many. You may need to memorize facts or just understand the basics. You might need a broad conceptual base, or just skills. To add even more variety, each person has different learning styles and preferences. No one tool is the right one. But with fifty here, you’re bound to find something that might help. **Authors Note: I realize this article is fairly long, so you may want to bookmark it to finish it later** 1) Visualization The idea here is that you want to put abstract information into a picture. I’m not a huge fan of this method, but sometimes brute force is required. Take two ideas and ask yourself how they relate. Take a more complex idea and compare it to a simpler one.

Draw it out. Most people take notes in a linear fashion, writing one statement after the next. A bit more efficient than rote memorization is to use mnemonics. This is an advanced memory technique. A variation of the link method, this one helps you memorize numbers. 17) Brainstorming. Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are. Library | Chakras. Chakras There are seven power centers in your body, called chakras. The state of each chakra reflects the health of a particular area of your body. It also reflects your psychological, emotional and spiritual well-being.

Every thought and experience you've ever had in your life gets filtered through these chakra databases. Explore your seven power centers and see how they reflect what's happening in your body, in your life: Intuitively diagnose your energyUnplug from negative thoughts and perceptionsLive as a healthier, more empowered person Click the button below to view my chakra model as a Flash presentation . «« Back to Library. The Energetics Of Healing Caroline Myss Part 2 of 2. The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written (book) The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith, a British poet, critic, and biographer.[1] The list included the books such as, Upanishads, Hebrew Bible, I Ching, Kabbalah, Candide, The World as Will and Idea, among others. See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Seymour-Smith, Martin (1998).

The 100 most influential books ever written : the history of thought from ancient times to today. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publ. Group. External links[edit] The list. Get (Almost) Any Book For Free: 100+ (Kosher) Sites Offering Great Literature for Download. Teach Your Monster to Read. 50 Greatest Books of All Time by Globe and Mail - The Greatest Books. Books to Pass Down to Children. 9 Places to Sell Your Children's Book...Besides Bookstores. You've published a children's book! Congratulations! Whether you're traditionally published or you self-published, this is a huge accomplishment.

But now the real hard work begins: selling. You need to get your book in front of buyers, so obviously you contact bookstores and distributors to bookstores. Surprisingly, many many places other than bookstores can help you sell your book. Direct from the author. Specialty catalogs. Museums and other gift stores. School visits. Library conferences. Education/teacher conferences. As a fundraiser. At street fairs and other outdoor events. Through gift stores in your hometown. Self-Publish with Us. Get (Almost) Any Book For Free: 100+ (Kosher) Sites Offering Great Literature for Download. Flipboard: Your Social News Magazine for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store.

TED: Ideas worth spreading. Emily Levine's theory of everything. The Staff Recommends: Home. Free Crossword Puzzle Maker. Draw a Stickman. Deb Roy: The birth of a word. Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English! Dragon Dictation. Ready to TOEFL. Draw a Stickman. Good Free Software. The Most Useful Websites on the Internet.

Apple poised to bring important changes to its iBook platform. Apple may be poised to announce changes coming to iBooks, and perhaps eBook publishing, sometime this month. In particular, we believe the announcement may have important reverberations for textbook publishers and buyers. According to a report by All Things Digital published Monday, the company is planning a media event in New York to make a "media-related," not hardware-related announcement. Further, sources for TechCrunch claimed the announcement will focus on "improvements to the iBooks platform," and the event will supposedly be more geared towards the publishing industry (not necessarily consumers). Apple has recently highlighted the ability of its iBooks platform to include sound, video, and other features by offering a free eBook of The Yellow Submarine.

And based on information from our own sources, we believe the announcement could likely involve support for the EPUB 3 standard, which enables a wider variety of multimedia and interaction features. Maths Worksheets. Mathematics Centre ... A world of alternatives to text-based learning. How do we learn and teach maths? Digital maths education resources. Numeracy resources. Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers.

GREAT MATHS SITES. How DO We Learn Math? What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a given set of rules without understanding them, and apply them in an intelligent and useful fashion. Given sufficient practice, the brain eventually discovers (or creates) meaning in what began as a meaningless game.— Keith DevlinShould Children Learn Math by Starting with Counting?

It seems obvious that our children must have a wide range of experience with real world objects before counting, addition, or subtraction mean anything to them. But are other topics, such as calculus, better learned as abstract rules — as a game that we play with symbols? And what about the topics in the middle? To teach effectively, I need to understand how students learn. I Learn by Discovery Collect lots of experiences.Notice patterns or trends.Develop mental metaphors to explain the patterns, and postulate rules from the metaphors.Test the rules against future experiences. English Grammar, Vocabulary, Pronunciation Exercises for ESL Teachers and Students. Pearltrees videos.