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Watch BBC TV Abroad - or any UK TV iPlayer. Index - library learners. Lesson Plans - Tiger Library - WTES. Literacy Station Activities. Ology World. Virtual Dice. Kentucky%20school%20library%20media%20news%20summer%202014 final. Inferencing | reading | Pinterest | Do You, Olaf and Words.

Picture Books on YouTube. One thing I love to do with my kids is to browse YouTube for fun educational songs and videos that we can watch together. I have found so many amazing picture books on YouTube. Most are animated and set to music making the stories come to life. SO many of our favorite stories are read and told in a fun way on there. I made a great big list of them for you to check out. Pin Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst The Animal Boogie, Barefoot Books Are You My Mother? Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina Chick Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Click Clack Moo by Doreen Cronin Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems Duck for President by Weston Woods Duck Rabbit by Amy Krouse Rosenthal The Easter Egg by Jan Brett Funnybones by Janet and Alan Ahlberg Go Away Big Green Monster by Ed Emberly Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown Mr. Up, Up, Up! SKPS Elementary Language Arts - HOME. Luckeyfrog's Lilypad: The Perfect Book to Teach Asking Questions! Okay, I have a new favorite reading lesson-- my asking questions lesson! When I got a chance to work with Scholastic last spring, they gave us a bag of swag that any teacher would love, and it included the book This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen, which is perfect for teaching a reading lesson about asking questions!

(I’ve linked it to Amazon here, but I also highly recommend finding it through Scholastic Reading Club :) On my CRAFT board, we list "Ask questions before, during, and after reading" as a reading comprehension skill (although some of my kids think it belongs under Response to Text, so we concluded that it could go as either!). This is a really important skill for some of my struggling readers, because some of them never question what they read. They are just reading to get it over with!

(oops- took this picture before we added it!) Asking questions before reading gives them a purpose for reading and gets them engaged. Pinterest. Video Shorts Links. Gale Training - Gale. So-Called "Digital Natives" Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows. “In Google we trust.” That may very well be the motto of today’s young online users, a demographic group often dubbed the “digital natives” due their apparent tech-savvy. Having been born into a world where personal computers were not a revolution, but merely existed alongside air conditioning, microwaves and other appliances, there has been (a perhaps misguided) perception that the young are more digitally in-tune with the ways of the Web than others.

That may not be true, as it turns out. A new study coming out of Northwestern University, discovered that college students have a decided lack of Web savvy, especially when it comes to search engines and the ability to determine the credibility of search results. Apparently, the students favor search engine rankings above all other factors. The only thing that matters is that something is the top search result, not that it’s legit. “I Googled It” During the study, one of the researchers asked a study participant, “What is this website?” Why Use a Database? Subscription Databases » Why Use a Database? Why Use a Database? What is a subscription database anyway? And why should I use one? A database is simply an organized collection of related information.

Our school district subscribes to many databases and we strongly encourage students to make use of them. Trustworthy - published by reputable companies Age appropriate Searchable Updated regularly Free of advertisements Unbiased May contain information not available on the free Internet, including primary source documentsMay offer helpful features such as read-aloud, reading levels, language translation, word definitions, pre-formatted citations and more. The Human Element by Proquest - watch this video to learn about the advantages of databases over searching the Internet.

Watch the Prezi below to learn more about how databases can help you! Watch the video below to see how subscription databases compare to Google and Wikipedia! Here's another video to watch: You Can't Just Google It! What Are Databases and Why You Need Them- great video for students! | Research/Search Skill Lessons | Pinterest | Student, Videos and Colleges. Research/Search Skill Lessons on Pinterest | Technology Posters, Student and Lesson Plans.

LMC Lessons - CKCS @ your Library! - Websites at Verona Area School District. Grade 5 Links. Cotton Creek School >> Library/Computer Lab >> Cotton Creek Links >> Grade 5 Please note that these links will take you out of District 118's website. District 118 is not responsible for the content of these site. If problems occur, please contact Amy Sanecki at 847-526-4700. Thank you. ©2015 Wauconda CUSD118 This website contains links to other Internet sites and information provided by persons not affiliated with Wauconda Community Unit School District 118. Clip art: The Solution to Reading Comprehension. Primary Resources: English: Kentucky%20school%20library%20media%20news%20summer%202014 final. Media Center | Poplar Bridge Elementary School. WEB 2.0 Tools. I have known about some very interesting web 2.0 applications for a while. The obvious ones like wikispaces, wikipedia and alike, but also the online applications like word processors, spreadsheets and media sharing spaces like flickr.

There are however many more that are really worth looking at. Click here for Web 2.0 Productivity Tools Web 2.0 Tutorials Without a doubt one of the best resources on the web for web2.0 Technologies is the commoncraft show. Virtual Field Trips Using Web 2.0 This is a page looking at using web 2.0 tools for creating simple but valuable Virtual field trips. Pixlr edit any type of imageresize itcrop itselect different regionsuse layersadd captions and effectsFree. photos from Flickr, your PC or online photo storage serviceedit itresizerotatecropcaptionsfree photo storageRegistration needed. Screencast-o-matic Here is another addition to the fold of interesting applications. Voicethread & Jamglue. Project-laptop: Microsoft Mouse Mischief. Draw 1. Run installation process When you click run or instalation you click “I accept the license for Miscrosoft software” and next click “Install” Draw 2.

Now, the installation process is progressing.. When the process ends, click Finish. Draw 3. When you open Microsoft Mouse Mischief you should see this window: Draw 4. When you click first icon opens PowerPoint with the „new” bookmark in Multi Mouse. Application allows you to add multi-choice or one choice questions and active drawing. Application works in two modes: individual and group. In individual modes: - every student has different picture next to cursor mouse; - every individual student answers the questions. In group modes: - all students in one team share one picture next to cursor mouse (there are nine teams and nine pictures in the range); - every student in team must choose the same answer; - in active drawing, every student draws picture individually Draw 5. When you have chosen the team and click „Click me!” Draw 6. 6. Draw7. Technology and Education | Box of Tricks. Jan/Feb 2016 Issue.

Meet Your Learners Where They Are: Virtualizing the School Library As author Brenda Boyer notes, the proliferation of BYOD, 1:1 device programs, and blended and online learning opportunities for students makes it critical for school libraries to meet the challenge of providing services, resources, and instruction in virtual environments. To that end, Boyer lays out a comprehensive road map to building and maintaining that virtual environment. THE NEW MEDIA CENTER: Resources for the New Media Specialist--DPLA’s Primary Source Sets and Ben’s Guide, Refreshed! The recently released Primary Source Sets from the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and the updated Ben's Guide to the U.S. BELLTONES: Back on My Bandbox--Internet Filtering and Diversity. Online Login. Reading Fair Projects | reading fair projects | Pinterest | Reading Fair, Fair Projects and Reading.

Too Many Carrots - Picture Books - Multimedia | Capstone Library. Library Skills Downloadables - Tools | Capstone Library. Introduction to Genre. The Book Fairy-Goddess: Book Genres for 3rd-5th. Just like with the younger grades, when October begins, I start getting into the more "meatier" lessons with 3rd-5th grade as well. These lessons are often taught during one or two library lessons, but will also carry on throughout the entire year.

The first of these "meatier" lessons is on the concept of Fiction and Non-Fiction books. My goal in these lessons is to get the students to understand that if they can figure out what type of book they are reading, they can then get their brain focused on the proper way to "read" that type of book to get the most out of it. I combined the use of a poster and a powerpoint presentation that I created, and had them both up on the board as we began. The first thing I did was to ask the students to close their eyes and pretend that all the books in the library were floating above them. After the immediate pretend screams of horror (don't ya just love kids!) Next week, we will focus on the Non-Fiction section. Teaching: Research for elementary students on Pinterest | Nonfiction, Biographies and Text Features.

Third Grade American Heroes Graphic Organizers. Social Studies GPS | Third Grade SS | Pinterest | Social studies, Third Grade and Graphic Organizers. CRISS2.asp. CRISS Learning Strategies-Review. Researchguideelem. Research on Pinterest | Note Taking, Nonfiction and Biographies. Dr seuss | Kiddle. Parlor7 Salon & Day Spa. Big6lp. Mswitten - Big6 & Super3 Resources. Big6 & Super3 Research Process ResourcesPD AgendaBig6 Resources The chart linked above details each step of the process and offers online and offline resources.

The table and its contents are a mash-up of the following resources: Other great places to find out more:A Great Place to learn about the Big6 and access step-by-step ideas and teaching resources. It will walk you and your students through the whole process.Kathy Shrock's Guide to the Research Process - not exactly Big6 but a fantastic resource for different parts of the process.How To Do Research - The Kentucky Virtual Library presents a great process for kidsBig6 Wiki: WebGuide: Search strategies and research skills organized in the Big6 framework.