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Welcome to Teaching That Makes Sense! WorksheetWorks.com. Reading Strategies for All Ages. This collection of reading strategies will make you feel like you just hit the jackpot for the best ways to teach reading strategies that are sometimes difficult to explain or for students to grasp and apply.

Reading Strategies for All Ages

This site is full of activities directly linked to printable guidelines and worksheets. Better yet, there are Power Point Presentations and Videos in ready-to-show formats all organized, described, and available from the home page. You will find a wide variety suitable from elementary to secondary, earmarked by grade levels, as well as ideas for how and when to use them effectively. Whether you are searching for a fresh approach to the tried and true, such as brainstorming or think aloud strategies, or for more innovative approaches, such as interactive notebooks or sociograms, you will be delighted with this discovery. tag(s): brain (55), brainstorming (17), reading strategies (28) In the Classroom Save this site in your favorites on your class computer or TeachersFirst membership.

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5: Your teacher is not a mind-reader

Check out 60second Recap's complete seven-video mini-series, "Write the greatest essay ever! Recap Resource also offers a 60second Recap video study guide tutorial, Dictionary of Terms, devoted to won't-waste-your-time explanations of key literary terms--metaphor, symbols, motifs, and more. The Latest Word: Our weekly updates bring you the latest on all things 60second Recap®. Wildlife Filmmaker, Video Mashups, Animal Videos, Wildlife Footage. Class Tools. Just this morning I had an excellent experience using an exciting interactive site called Class Tools which allows you to create games, activities, and diagrams in Flash (without knowing a thing about Flash!).

Class Tools

While covering an eighth grade social studies class, I informed students that they would be creating review games for an upcoming test. They were less than enthusiastic (and those of you who are familiar with the typical enthusiasm level of eighth graders will know that causing them to be even less excited was something of a real feat). Hoping to rescue the moment, I asked if some of them would like to create a game online. Even this was met with grudging acceptance, but they agreed, perhaps considering it at least a momentary reprieve from creating another stale board game with markers and construction paper).

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