- 18 & Under: Welcome Students!
Are you in grade four or above? Do you want to improve your reading and writing? If so, welcome to Literacy Matters, a place where you can improve your skills in reading for meaning and writing to express your ideas. Literacy Matters invites you to try out our three interactive online activities:
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- 4Teachers: Home Page
4Teachers.org works to help teachers integrate technology into their classrooms by offering FREE online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.
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- 4Teachers: Home Page
4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.
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- 4Teachers: Home Page
4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students. Submitted by Claudia Miranda
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- Carl's Corner.htm
This website provides numerous literacy activities for students to complete. It is a tool for teachers to use to find book links, writing activities, assessment ideas, literacy stations, poems, mini books and much much more. All the materials are already pre-made and come with an explanation on how to use them. This site it gear to teacher who teach pre-k – 3rd grade. There are also literacy ESL materials on the site as well as Spanish materials. Rec by Janet Peters.
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- Empower English Language Learners With Tools From the Web
Author Lori Langer de Ramirez This timely, user-friendly book provides inservice and preservice ESL teachers with the background and tools needed to implement Web 2.0 technologies in their classes today. The ELLs in these classrooms will benefit from learning English (and content) through rich and motivating technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, visual media, social networking, and Second Life. Designed for teachers who need some guidance in using technology as a teaching tool, this handbook is very easy to follow and provides step by step instructions for even the most inexperienced 'digital (non) natives'!" —Holly Hansen-Thomas
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- Equity Index
The Equity Index is a searchable database designed to locate resources and tools to help you meet the needs of a diverse classroom. Use this index to find RubiStar Rubrics, TrackStar Tracks and educational links on the Web. Find lessons or information for persons with special needs, disabilities, and language learners. Also find essentials on including persons of various races, religions, and cultures into your community.
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- Great Sites for Middle Grades Teachers
This site identifies their "10 Best Websites" for middle grades teachers. These sites are very appropriate for other grades also.
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- Illinois Resource Center
Since 1972, the Illinois Resource Center (IRC) has provided assistance to teachers and administrators serving linguistically and culturally diverse students.
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- Mosaic Listserve Tools
Great forms/graphic organizers for student reading and writing thinking strategies. Multiple Resources and Materials * Assessment * Lesson Plans * Parents* Writing * Other * Photographs * Staff Development * PowerPoint Pesentations * Worksheet / Reporting Forms, etc.
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- Region 15 Connecticut: Graphic Organizers (MUST SEE Spanish also)
This is an outstanding resource for graphic organizers! There are multiple organizers in both English and Spanish. Select either PDF or word format.
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- Tools for Reading Writing and Thinking: A Resource for Reading Strategies
This site directly guides students. No direct link. Select Dept of Curriculum and Instruction. Select English Language Arts. Select Tools for Reading Writing and Thinking
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- Welcome to What's the Difference?: Free software for Comparing and Contrasting
“What’s the Difference?” (WTD) is a free multimedia software authoring application that facilitates scientific analysis by allowing any content to be compared side by side. WTD's robust and flexible in-depth authoring component allows educators and curriculum developers to populate a template with virtually any set of NASA science content or datasets. It is built for the non-technical developer, allowing anyone to build their own learning experience based on categories (e.g., planets) and associated attributes (e.g., composition, diameter, temperature, etc.)
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- AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer: Filamentality Homepage
Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Internet, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities. Support is built-in along the way through Mentality Tips. In the end, you'll create a web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML or serving web pages.
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- Differentiated Literacy Strategies for English Language Learners, Grades K–6: :
Gayle H. Gregory Adapted from the highly successful Differentiated Literacy Strategies for Student Growth and Achievement in Grades K–6, this book provides a wealth of grade-specific literacy strategies that not only increase student achievement but also increase it rapidly. The authors provide proven practical tools for differentiating instruction to meet language and individual learning styles. Teachers will find an instructional and assessment framework designed to promote critical competencies.
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- Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide 5-9
The first in a series of ASCD books takes you deeper into the practice of differentiation with complete differentiated units of study in five core subjects. Each unit includes lesson plans, worksheets, assignments, rubrics, and other tools and strategies for teaching mixed-ability groups. Clear steps and timelines help you plan your use of instructional processes such as flexible grouping, tiered assignments, and scaffolding.
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- DiscoverySchool
Site allows teachers create worksheets for classroom use. The worksheet generator allows you to input your own information and create worksheets including matching, word searchers, a cloze activity, etc. Rec. by Lesa Friedrich
DiscoverySchool offers teacher resources and powerful tools for creating unique classroom materials.
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- Edublogs - education blogs
This site is designed to make blogging for teachers and students easy. Effortlessly create and manage students blogs.
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- Image Collector
The Image Finder and Image Describer tutorials teach you how to find images and create educationally meaningful text descriptions to make images accessible and useful to all of your students. The Image Collector tool helps you find, describe, and save images to use in your classroom.
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- In the Classroom: a Toolkit for Effective Instruction of English Learners
Grade level content: K-6/Elementary Christine Loop See link to secondary. This site provides an overview of tools with links to many specific tools as well as relevant support research and articles.
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