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Homepage - ReadWriteThink. Citebite - Link directly to specific quotes in web pages. Literacy Dice. About Scratch. Who Uses Scratch? Scratch is designed especially for ages 8 to 16, but is used by people of all ages. Millions of people are creating Scratch projects in a wide variety of settings, including homes, schools, museums, libraries, and community centers. Around the World Scratch is used in more than 150 different countries and available in more than 40 languages.

Quotes The Scratch Team has received many emails from youth, parents, and educators expressing thanks for Scratch. Learn More About Scratch Learn to Code, Code to Learn The ability to code computer programs is an important part of literacy in today’s society. Scratch in Schools Students are learning with Scratch at all levels (from elementary school to college) and across disciplines (such as math, computer science, language arts, social studies).

Research The MIT Scratch Team and collaborators are researching how people use and learn with Scratch (for an introduction, see Scratch: Programming for All). Support and Funding. Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds. Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus. Safe and simple blogs for your students. Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas. Home › Professional Development › Strategy Guides Strategy Guide Content area teachers in middle and high schools face sometimes misguided pressure from administrators to include more reading in their instructional activities. While it’s likely that being asked to read (with reasonable support) in every classroom would improve standardized test scores, that’s a side benefit to the real reasons to make sure that reading is a part of students’ content area learning.

Reading is a way to gain exposure to and develop tentative understandings of content. Teacher talk, even when supported by audiovisual aids, tends to dominate content area instruction—often at the expense of engaged student learning. Reading diverse and provocative texts from your content gives students another way to interact with the key information and ideas about which they’re learning.Reading is vital means of exposing learners to what thinking in your content area looks and sounds like. Vocabulary Tests Available for "VOCAB" TagCrowd: make your own tag cloud from any text.