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23 Oct 09

visual-lit - Activities

links to sites that teach with pictures/photos
great for teaching media literacy

visual-lit.wikispaces.com/Activities - Preview

media_literacy; languagearts jrhigh

21 Oct 09

VocabSushi: The better way to build your vocabulary | Contextual Examples From the Daily News

Vocabulary quizes with words in context from real-life publications. Great for those Pre-AP students and teachers.

www.vocabsushi.com - Preview

languagearts vocabulary

19 Oct 09

My Storymaker

This interactive site walks students through creating a narrative.

mystorymaker.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) - Preview

writing languagearts

11 Oct 09

Old Man and the Sea: literature, novel | Glogster

See the Glog! Old Man and the Sea: literature, novel | Glogster

w9800436.edu.glogster.com/Old-Man-and-the-Sea - Preview

glogster languagearts

Schooled by Gordon Korman: "lonestar book", 1960s, literature | Glogster

See the Glog! Schooled by Gordon Korman: "lonestar book", 1960s, literature | Glogster

debsmith.edu.glogster.com/SchooledbyKorman - Preview

glogster languagearts

17 Sep 09

BBC - Skillswise - Games

Preview these games for appropriateness for your students before assigning them. Who Killed Angela Spelling? under Reading may be considered inappropriate.

www.bbc.co.uk/games - Preview

languagearts

15 Aug 09

Digital Booktalk

Video book talks, with book summaries, for many of our JH and HS level books. This is one step further than the Photostory book trailers we're accustomed to seeing.

digitalbooktalk.com/ - Preview

reaing languagearts digitalstorytelling jrhigh

English Language and Literature Resources

Great example of tech integration with HS Language Arts. (This is a CA school, not the KISD school.)

melvil.chicousd.org/engl.html - Preview

languagearts highschool reading

Based on the Book - MCPL

Use this site to find out if that book you're about to use in class has been made into a movie.

www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/...movies - Preview

reading languagearts

  • I'm always reading a book and finding out months later that it's been made into a movie. This site would be great to check first. - deblsmith on 2009-08-15

HTI American Verse Project

American poetry database (searchable) for poetry prior to 1920

quod.lib.umich.edu/amverse - Preview

languagearts poetry

Teaching English with Technology

Check the Commonly taught books section of the site for many JH and HS titles with great resources

tewt.org - Preview

languagearts

PicLits.com - Create a PicLit

Use the word banks and provided pictures to produce a poster. Could be the definition of a vocabulary word, or a short poem, or a sentence for a short story. Great site to spark creative writing.

www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx - Preview

web2.0 languagearts vocabulary writing

10 Aug 09

Weboword

vocabulary illustrated to demonstrate meaning.

www.weboword.com/vocabulary - Preview

vocabulary languagearts

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