http://netvouz.com/tag/literacy?feed=rss Bookmarks tagged with "literacy" on Netvouz http://www.ps41.org/blog/ps41/the-gell-project/ NYC Greenroof Environmental Literacy Laboratory will provide students empirical lessons designed to enhance science, math and aesthetic education in an outdoor observational learning space. GELL will serve as a prototype for raising public school students’ awareness of urban sustainability issues and farm-to-table agriculture. GELL’s impact promises to benefit students throughout New York City. pdboyer Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:43:18 GMT http://www.readingeurope.org/observatory.nsf?open academic davidbrake Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:17:27 GMT http://www.mbari.org/earth/ What is EARTH? EARTH uses near-real-time data from ocean observatories to design and test outreach with the Internet as an interface to scientists, teachers, students, and the public. pdboyer Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:05:58 GMT http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr144.shtml Journal Writing Every Day: Teachers Say It Really Works! One of the best things about daily journal writing is that it can take so many forms. Teachers can use journal writing to meet specific goals, or the purpose can be wide open. Some teachers check journal writing and work on polishing skills; others use journals as the one "uncorrected" form of writing that students produce. Some teachers provide prompts to help students begin their writing. Others leave decisions about the direction and flow of student journals up to the students. This week, Education World talked with teachers who use daily journal writing in their classrooms. Included: Writing motivators that work from teachers who use them! Literacy in the Content Areas pdboyer Wed, 05 Jan 2011 01:55:27 GMT http://www.learningpt.org/literacy/adolescent/strategies.php Anticipation Guide; Brainstorming; Cloze; DR-TA; Guided Imagery; Graphic Organizers; GRP (Guiding Reading Procedures); Hot Seat; Jigsaw; KWL; KWL Plus; KWLS; Most Important Word; Phony Document Strategy; PReP; Probable Passage; Question/Answer Relationships (QAR); Quick Writes; Reading Response Journals; Reciprocal Teaching; ReQuest (Reciprocal Questioning); RRI (Rapid Retrieval of Information); Save the Last Word for Me; Say Something; Semantic Maps; Somebody Wanted But So…; SQ3R; Story Impressions; Theme Search; Think-Aloud; and TOAST (Test, Organize, Anchor, Say, Test) pdboyer Wed, 05 Jan 2011 01:49:29 GMT http://www.learningpt.org/literacy/adolescent/overview.php Adolescent literacy has, for many years, been a forgotten area as educators have focused their attention on early literacy, in particular, Grades K–3. However, in the last few years adolescent literacy has gained more attention as policy makers and educators realize that literacy is a critical issue even as students transition into the middle and high school settings. In a recent press release (2004) President Bush proposed the Striving Readers Initiative, a program for middle and high school students that complements the elementary Reading First program. Both the Striving Readers Initiative and Reading First are part of the larger No Child Left Behind Act (2002). [Formerly NCREL] Literacy in the Content Areas pdboyer Wed, 05 Jan 2011 01:39:42 GMT http://www.dltk-teach.com/minibooks/indexsp.htm Mini books in Spanish and English. Spanish Literacy thinrichsen Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:26:47 GMT http://www.hackneypirates.org/ davidbrake Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:48:31 GMT http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/ books and ebooks davidbrake Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:54:46 GMT http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=127&title= Flash interactive for making webs of understanding from science textbooks: Use this interactive to create free-form graphic organizers, similar to the cluster web shown in the picture. You can drag your ideas around in the organizer to arrange any layout and relationship that you want. You can use circle or box (rectangle) shapes to appear on your chart. Each layer on the chart will have a different color border for the shapes that you choose. pdboyer Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:33:00 GMT