6 Powerful Google Docs Features to Support the Collaborative Writing Process via @soxnevad @Getting_Smart #DigLN #EdTech, #IOLchat. Email Share September 3, 2012 - by Susan Oxnevad 0 Email Share Sharon J. Washington, executive director of the National Writing Project, said: Woodlands Literacy Zone - Interactive English Games - Free, Secure Book Project Site for K-12 Teachers and Educators. Bookemon Educator Program Uniquely designed for educators worldwide, Bookemon's educator program offers a comprehensive set of book creation tools in a secure, private online environment for teachers to use book projects as an inspiring, creative learning tool for their students.
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Group Privacy - At the discretion of the edCenter founder, books and information can only be accessed by its members. Storybird - Your activity. Primary Pad · Superfunky Collaborative Writing For Schools. Home - Capstone Classroom. Writer’s Digest - Writing Prompts. Write a scene that includes a character speaking a different language, speaking in a thick accent, or otherwise speaking in a way that is unintelligibe to the other characters.
(Note: You don't necessarily need to know the language the character is speaking—be creative with it!) Describe a character's reaction to something without explaining what it is. See if your fellow prompt responders can guess what it is. Write a story or a scene about one character playing a prank on another. Describe the scene from both characters' points of view.
Writing Prompt: Write a story that involves confusion over homonyms (words that have the same spelling but different meanings) or homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently). For World Storytelling Day, share the best story you've ever heard or told by word of mouth, or have a fictional character recount their favorite story. Vocabulary Games at Play Kids Games. Vocabulary Games Moontype 2 An amazing typing game that's out of this world!
Classroom Stingray Vocabulary and Math Games Play these games that were added by classrooms. You can add your own by following the link above! Solve problems to free stingrays and remove harmful algae from the ocean. Word or Problem Scramble Play the classic word scramble! Vocabulary Pinball Try to hit all of the letters with the ball to spell a word.
Websites for Kids. Instant Grammar Check - Online Proofreading. Scholastic.com. Teachers' D5 Share and Swap Stop. The Florida Center for Reading Research. C.A.F.E. Preposition Song. Guided Reading and Reading Games with Roy the Zebra. ReadWorks.org. The Daily 5. CAFE. In our classroom, we will use the structure of CAFE to focus on reading comprehension strategies.
During Daily Five, two of our whole class mini-lessons will focus on CAFE strategies. I will also meet with small strategy groups and individual students when I finish meeting with guided reading groups. Our CAFE board shows the four strategies we will focus on- Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary. As we learn skills for each strategy, we will post them below. The most exciting part is that students will have the chance to declare the strategy they are working on. This is our CAFE board. MNWElementary-Daily5 - Daily 5 Resources.
Spelling-WTW. - Top 10 Apps for Digital Storytelling. - Top 10 Apps for Digital Storytelling. Digital Storytelling. School Page. Name:________________________ #______ Words Their Way: Resources and Ideas - ELL Tool Box. Literature Circle - Listening and Sharing : Selected Class Novels.
Literature Circles Resource Center. Goodreaderboy.png (PNG Image, 454x681 pixels) - Scaled (94. Readers/Writers Workshops, Centers, and Resources. ReadWorks.org. Funny poetry for children. Word Finder - Lit. Circles.pdf. Literature Circles Qualities.pdf. Literature Learning Ladders. Literature Circles involve a small group of students exploring a piece of literature in depth.
Although you'll find lots of books and articles on the Literature Circles, there are many ways to implement the strategies across grade levels and subject areas. Think of literature circles as one element of a balanced literacy program rather than "the solution. " In most cases, the application of literature circles evolves over time as students and teachers become more experienced readers.
Check out the off-site resources by Katherine L. Schlick Noe titled Overview of Literature Circles. The Approach. Mrs. Cowan's Literature Circles. Literature Circle Resources. Welcome to Lit2Go ETC. 21st Century Literacies: Tools for Reading the World. In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes.
" Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to choose and modify their own communication based on the rhetorical situation. Point of view is created by the reader, the audience and the medium. Basic Language Literacy Visual Literacy. Digital Storytelling. 10 Quick Classroom Games to improve Literacy Skills. A colleague of mine recently shard these 10 great ideas to impove literacy skills in the classroom.
They are simple to play and can be applied to nearly all year levesl. Enjoy. Writing tools. Writing Support ToolsMITS Freedom Stick - "The MITS Freedom Stick is a portable, use-anywhere accessibility solution.
Install this software package on any 4gb USB Flash Drive (full) or 2gb USB Flash Drive (lite) and you create a set of tools for your students that they can carry in their pockets which will make any Windows computer highly accessible. "My Study Bar - a comprehensive set of portable open source and freeware applications to support learners with literacy difficulties. MyStudyBar is similar to popular commercial programs which use a floating toolbar to support literacy.
The toolbar includes a range of tools to support inclusion such as mind mapping, screen masking, word prediction, talking dictionary, text-to-speech, Save as MP3 and voice recognition. PC Only. FCAT Reading Grade 4 Teaching Strategies. Student Materials: Eye on Idioms. Wacky Web Tales. Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies.
Figurative Language. Listen to Poetry. FREE Rhyming Dictionary: Find Rhyming Words in Seconds. Literature: [Shared by tferrell]