Thursday, April 3, 2008
Literacy Community
This is a fantastic site for both teachers and parents alike. Brochures are able to be downloaded in both English and Spanish. These brochures give parents tips on how they can help their children with literacy skills at home. www.reading.org/resources/tools/parent.html
ELL link through Literacy Community
The Literacy Link has a list of articles and informational websites. On the top right hand corner there is a green box that has a listing of links for areas such as special education and English Language Learners. This link www.usc.edu/dept/education/CMMR is for the Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research from USC. It gives insight to research in literacy for multicultural students.
Reading to Stop Bullying
This article talks about books that can be used to teach students about bullying in school. It also provides lessons on how to teach such a sensitive topic.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=390
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=390
Readers of ALL Ages Need Strategies!
Adolescents are not done learning how to read and comprehend! They need as much time with these skills as young readers do! Click this link to find out why and how to do this!
Diane B.
Diane B.
Writing to Learn
The podcast link provides a voice explanation to teachers in different subject areas of literacy. In Writing to Learn an instructional approach is explained. Students are asked to complete short writing assignments that involve reading comprehension skills. For more information go to www.reading.org/downloads/podcast/CA-Knipper.mp3.
ADD
Under the literacy community, I found a link for ADHD. Majority of my students have ADD or ADHD and it is always helpful to learn to strategies and tips to help them, especially in the area of reading.
http://www.addresources.org/adhd_learning_opportunities.php
http://www.addresources.org/adhd_learning_opportunities.php
Teaching Tools Website
The Teaching Tools website offers great reading lessons for each grade from K-12, choice booklists, and parent resources.I thought the list of teacher's choices of books listed is extremely helpful. http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/RT.61.3.7&F=RT-61-3_TC.html It could be quite useful to other teachers to get ideas for new literature and how to use it in their own classrooms.
One example of a lesson for high schoolers is based upon high-interest novels that Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools: http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/lessons/390.html
Also this site gives links to models of a T Chart, Character Map, Conflict Map, and Resolution Chart.
This site gives you Winning titles .
A list of titles of the year’s Young Adults’ Choices is published each April, just before IRA’s annual convention.http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices_young_adults.html
One example of a lesson for high schoolers is based upon high-interest novels that Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools: http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/lessons/390.html
Also this site gives links to models of a T Chart, Character Map, Conflict Map, and Resolution Chart.
This site gives you Winning titles .
A list of titles of the year’s Young Adults’ Choices is published each April, just before IRA’s annual convention.http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices_young_adults.html
Adolescent books
The list of “Young Adults’ Choices” booklists will be very helpful. I teach special education at the high school level and most of my students do not enjoy reading. These are lists of books with pictures and descriptions which will, hopefully, guide my students to books will read. Plus, the list was constructed by teenagers. Beth G
http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices_young_adults.html
http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices_young_adults.html
Great Parent Information!
Parent resource! If you are a parent or a teacher looking for information to provide to parents, read this! This link, as well as others, offers information for encouraging literacy at home and giving parents strategies.
Diane B.
Diane B.
Current Issuess in IRA
Where is there a website that offers everything in one place? International Reading Association's http://www.reading.org/ has conference information and a whole lot more. Looking for a career change? How about the latest issues of IRA's award winning journal? There is even a section on shopping. What else could you want? All in an easy to navigate page.
Teaching Tools
Teaching Tools is a wonderful website for teachers and parents. It offers interesting lesson plans that are sorted by grade levels. It also provides parent resources, and wonderful book lists for students.
One particular lesson plan for students in grades 9 through 12 deals with bullying in school. This lesson helps students understand problems that surround bullying in depth. It uses a realistic, high-interest novel (The Bully by Paul Langan) and interactive reading strategies (such as T-charts, response journals, and Readers Theater), students discuss and deal with the many issues that surround bullying. It also gives students helpful tips on what they can do to prevent bullying and who to contact if they are being bullied.
http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/lessons/390.html
There is a wide variety of book choices that are offered to the students. They are sorted by level and then year. This would be a great resource for students to use for their independent or required reading.
http://www.reading.org/library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/JAA1
I like how the book lists are generated by both teachers and students.
A text that would be a great supplement to my current teaching unit is Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust by Carol Ann. This was categorized under the Teachers' Choices 2007 list.
http://www.reading.org/library/retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598RT-61-3_TC.html
One particular lesson plan for students in grades 9 through 12 deals with bullying in school. This lesson helps students understand problems that surround bullying in depth. It uses a realistic, high-interest novel (The Bully by Paul Langan) and interactive reading strategies (such as T-charts, response journals, and Readers Theater), students discuss and deal with the many issues that surround bullying. It also gives students helpful tips on what they can do to prevent bullying and who to contact if they are being bullied.
http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/lessons/390.html
There is a wide variety of book choices that are offered to the students. They are sorted by level and then year. This would be a great resource for students to use for their independent or required reading.
http://www.reading.org/library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/JAA1
I like how the book lists are generated by both teachers and students.
A text that would be a great supplement to my current teaching unit is Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust by Carol Ann. This was categorized under the Teachers' Choices 2007 list.
http://www.reading.org/library/retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598RT-61-3_TC.html
http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/lessons/390.html
This website had a great reading guide for teacher’s that have struggling readers in the secondary grades. The Bully is a high interest novel for students in 6th grade or higher. It includes session by session activities that focus on literary elements while reading the book, such as character analysis along with the graphic organizer to go along with the activity. I think my students would love reading this book and participating in the activities.
http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/JAAL.51.3.6&F=JAAL-51-3_YAC_2.html
This website has an extensive list of books that adolescents picked to read. This is great if you need to add to your classroom library. A brief synopsis of each book is included starting on page 2 of the site. This really helps with picking out the books I’d like to add.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=943
This is a good lesson plan for poetry. It is based around the poem “Ex-Basketball Player” that would get boys interested. It gets students thinking about the future and reflecting on their own experiences. I think it is a fun lesson about poetry that would get students interested, not groaning.
This website had a great reading guide for teacher’s that have struggling readers in the secondary grades. The Bully is a high interest novel for students in 6th grade or higher. It includes session by session activities that focus on literary elements while reading the book, such as character analysis along with the graphic organizer to go along with the activity. I think my students would love reading this book and participating in the activities.
http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/JAAL.51.3.6&F=JAAL-51-3_YAC_2.html
This website has an extensive list of books that adolescents picked to read. This is great if you need to add to your classroom library. A brief synopsis of each book is included starting on page 2 of the site. This really helps with picking out the books I’d like to add.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=943
This is a good lesson plan for poetry. It is based around the poem “Ex-Basketball Player” that would get boys interested. It gets students thinking about the future and reflecting on their own experiences. I think it is a fun lesson about poetry that would get students interested, not groaning.
Teaching Tools Everyone Can Use
I really liked this link. It has a plethora of information about book choices for both children and young adult. Below is a link for children choices www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices_childrens.html
Issues in Literacy
I really liked the link called Focus on Topics in Reading. On this link you are presented with many reading topics to link to such as: assessment, comprehnsion, etc.. You are then give tons of ideas like: books, videos, online resources on that topic. http://www.reading.org/resources/issues/index.html
Great Booklists
This is a good website for booklists. It includes teacher and student favorites organized by primary, intermediate and advanced. It also has literacy lesson plans for K-12. http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/index.html
literacy community: book wink
This site allows children to view book talks by others and get excited about particular books.
Issues in Literacy
This is a site that I located through the Issues in Literacy link from IRA that provides valuable learning to read information and specific strategies for educators AND PARENTS. Teacher and parents can work from the same site.
Teacher Websites
When you go to this web page click on the teacher/parent resources. It gives some great websites with interactive games based on literacy for students to use in the classroom. It also gives some websites with lesson plans. http://www.reading.org/resources/community/links_lit_tp.html
Literacy links
I have always liked the pbskids.org website http://pbskids.org/lions/index.html because it is fun for kids and also educational. Also, The Reading Teacher http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/RT.61.2.8&F=RT-61-2-CChoices.html is a great site for teachers to look at to see what books children like to read and what they are interesed in. I have seen several teachers use the edHelper website for reading comprehension, but it looks like it has a lot more to offer (http://www.edhelper.com/).
The Reading Specialist
Of course, as a future reading specialist I was drawn to this link. If you click "Issues in Literacy", then click "Position Statements", then click "The Reading Specialist" you will get your future job description! Much of the information was already known to me - but it's a great link for anybody who would like details on what the position means and how it varies. Anybody considering this will get great information here!
Diane B.
Diane B.
Children's book list (teaching tools)
After reviewing the children's book list online I was very impressed. I feel that it is easily accessible and provides teachers with current Reading Teacher articles. When you click on the specific articles you are able to view them on the screen. This is a valuable tool to have access to for teachers of all grades.
Issues in Literacy
After viewing the Issues in Literacy link I stumbled upon an article about special education students finding jobs before they graduate high school. In a Delware high school, a program has been set up to help special education students find out what their strengths are and how they can use those strengths to find jobs. Check it out: www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080403.
podcasts: shared reading
This site gives step by step lessons for spelling patterns. This will be useful for me to use inf irst grade. http://www.reading.org/publications/journals/rt/v60/i2/abstracts/RT-60-2-Gill.html
http://blog.reading.org/
The website I looked at was http://blog.reading.org/
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This site had interesting information - that Arizona is trying to opt out of NCLB. I didn't know that a state could opt out! They say, however, that the state will lose funding in some schools, so I think RI won't opt out any time soon.
Another site I looked at was readwritethink.org. On this site, there are some great lessons on poetry. I emailed it to myself because my class is learning about poetry. I can't wait to share it with them.
The final website I went to is http://www.reading.org/resources/community/programs.html. It is a listing of Graduate degree programs for literacy. I think this would be neat to look at to see if Providence College is included. I also think that maybe if a teacher was planning to move out of RI, he or she could see if there are other colleges that PC would link with for credit transfers.
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This site had interesting information - that Arizona is trying to opt out of NCLB. I didn't know that a state could opt out! They say, however, that the state will lose funding in some schools, so I think RI won't opt out any time soon.
Another site I looked at was readwritethink.org. On this site, there are some great lessons on poetry. I emailed it to myself because my class is learning about poetry. I can't wait to share it with them.
The final website I went to is http://www.reading.org/resources/community/programs.html. It is a listing of Graduate degree programs for literacy. I think this would be neat to look at to see if Providence College is included. I also think that maybe if a teacher was planning to move out of RI, he or she could see if there are other colleges that PC would link with for credit transfers.
great ideas for teen read
On www.reading.org/downloads/choices/yac2007_bookmark.pdf. there are a number of wonderful choices for the adolescent reader. Done in bookmark fashion, this gives a quick and easy reference for the classroom teacher. These choices are current as of 2007, yet there are previous years posted as well.
children's choice
This link gives great insight into books that children would choose if they were able to decide for themselves. http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/RT.61.2.8&F=RT-61-2-CChoices.html
Teaching Tools
The Teaching Tools website offers great reading lessons for each grade from K-12, choice booklists, and parent resources.I thought the list of teacher's choices of books listed is extremely helpful. http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/RT.61.3.7&F=RT-61-3_TC.html It could be quite useful to other teachers to get ideas for new literature and how to use it in their own classrooms.
One example of a lesson for high schoolers is based upon high-interest novels that Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools: http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/lessons/390.html
Also this site gives links to models of a T Chart, Character Map, Conflict Map, and Resolution Chart. This site gives you Winning titles .
A list of titles of the year’s Young Adults’ Choices is published each April, just before IRA’s annual convention.http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices_young_adults.html
One example of a lesson for high schoolers is based upon high-interest novels that Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools: http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/lessons/390.html
Also this site gives links to models of a T Chart, Character Map, Conflict Map, and Resolution Chart. This site gives you Winning titles .
A list of titles of the year’s Young Adults’ Choices is published each April, just before IRA’s annual convention.http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices_young_adults.html
No Child left Behind issue
Following the Issues in Literacy link on the IRA site, the Reading Today Daily link provides a very interesting article from Arizona. The Senate in Arizona is looking at NOT participating in the No Child Left Behind Federal Program because they feel it interferes with the educational programs they are trying to provide to their students. The Bill discusses their willingness to forgo the Federal monies if they choose to step out of the program.
Teaching Tools
The Teaching Tools resource presents wonderful lesson plans that are sorted by grade levels. One particular lesson plan for students in grade 6 through 8 is titled "ABC Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary in the Content Areas." This lesson plan offers a great hands-on and interactive opportunity for students to aid them become familiar with vocabulary in a variety of contexts. This lesson plan also provides wonderful worksheets to aid in the implementation of this lesson plan. (http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/lessons/276.html)
I also like the book choices that are offered to the students. They are sorted by level and then year. This would be a great resource for students to use for their independent or required reading.
(http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/JAAL.51.3.6&F=JAAL-51-3_YAC.html)
Along the same lines, the book lists are generated by both teachers and students. One text that I found interesting was Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers. This was categorized under the Young Adult's Choices list. Another text that would be a great supplement to my current teaching unit is Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust by Carol Ann. This was categorized under the Teachers' Choices 2007 list. Lee.(http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/RT.61.3.7&F=RT-61-3_TC.html)
I also like the book choices that are offered to the students. They are sorted by level and then year. This would be a great resource for students to use for their independent or required reading.
(http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/JAAL.51.3.6&F=JAAL-51-3_YAC.html)
Along the same lines, the book lists are generated by both teachers and students. One text that I found interesting was Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers. This was categorized under the Young Adult's Choices list. Another text that would be a great supplement to my current teaching unit is Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust by Carol Ann. This was categorized under the Teachers' Choices 2007 list. Lee.(http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/RT.61.3.7&F=RT-61-3_TC.html)
literacy community
If you are browsing the gradate studies section in the literacy community and look into Rhode Island, PC is the only IRA approved program...check it out! http://www.reading.org/resources/community/us_programs.html#o
teaching tools
The website readwritethink.org is a very useful resource for busy classroom teachers. The site provides complete lesson plans with resource lists and standards. You can use the complete lesson presented or use it as a template to create your own on the topic.
podcasts
On http://www.reading.org/publications/journals/jaal/v50/i7/abstracts/JAAL-50-7-Bromley.html
I think it really provides teachers will appropriate tools to be able to incorporate some the these vocabulary strategies into their instruction. I particularly like how you can view both the written article and the podcast.
I think it really provides teachers will appropriate tools to be able to incorporate some the these vocabulary strategies into their instruction. I particularly like how you can view both the written article and the podcast.
teaching tools
I really liked how the list of teacher's choices of books is listed. http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/RT.61.3.7&F=RT-61-3_TC.html It could be quite useful to other teachers to get ideas for new literature and how to use it in their own classrooms.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Welcome
Tonight I will attempt to show you the power of blogging in education. Please visit the International Reading Associations Reading Resources. View these links for the assignment below:
1.Post to this blog a short 3-5 sentence paragraph review of three links you visit in any of the four listed resources above. Make sure to include the hyperlink to the resource you are reviewing.
2.Read the posted review of at least two other students and comment on each of the reviews after visiting the site they chose.
Note:
In order to post to this blog you must give me an email address you can access via the web so I can send you an email invitation to grant you permission to post on this blog.
2.Read the posted review of at least two other students and comment on each of the reviews after visiting the site they chose.
Note:
In order to post to this blog you must give me an email address you can access via the web so I can send you an email invitation to grant you permission to post on this blog.
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