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Web 2.0 Literacy Tools Master List
A very well organized list of 100 web tools, listed by category.
Readability
Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading. Follow the steps below to install READABILITY in Web browser.
Check out these Great Reading Websites
A nice compilation of reading resources for Elementary
The Reading Workshop: Goals and Benefits of Student Blogging
"As the Reading Workshop students begin to blog regularly (see links in the sidebar), one might question, what do you want the students to get out of this project? How will it help them? Are the benefits academic and or social? Listed below are the goals and benefits of student blogs.
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Storyline Online
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation is proud to bring you Storyline Online, an on-line streaming video program, featuring SAG members reading childrens books aloud! Each book includes accompanying activities and less ideas.
Interactive ebooks for children
"Students improve their reading skills by:
* Listening for modeled fluency
* Reading for practice
* Recording their reading
* Checking comprehension with quizzes "
FreeReading
reeReading is a free, high-quality, open-source reading program addressing literacy development for grades K-3. Leveraging the collective wisdom of researchers, teachers, reading coaches, and other education and industry professionals, FreeReading provides a high-quality, cost-effective alternative to static materials. By establishing a foundation of hundreds of research-based lessons and materials that users can download and use for free, FreeReading has created the framework for intervention programs supporting K-6 literacy. The collective wisdom within FreeReading is invaluable and can be more beneficial than any one reading program.
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials
ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills. Click on the name of each interactive for a brief description of the tool and a list of the ReadWriteThink lessons that use the tool. From there you'll also be able to directly access the tool and use it in your classroom.
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Picture Match
Match pictures with letter sounds - beginning letters, short vowels and long vowels
ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Defining Literacy in a Digital World
The texts that students interact with have rapidly expanded from the days when the only definition of a text was a print-based book or magazine. While students interact with a range of print, visual, and sound texts, they do not always recognize that these many documents are texts. By creating an inventory of personal texts, students begin to consciously recognize the many literacy demands in contemporary society. With this start, they create a working definition of literacy that they refine and explore as they continue their investigation of the texts that they interact with at home, at school, and in other settings.
Skype an Author Into Your Library or Classroom - Skype An Author Network
Wouldn't it be great to invite authors into your classroom or library to video chat with students before, during, and/or after you've read their books? We are growing a list of authors who want to make that connection with you. See the alphabetical list in the scrolling author box on the left. Read on to find out just how easy it is!
The English Teacher's Companion
Thoughts about teaching, literacy, and English Language Arts in the twenty-first century.
Gnooks - Welcome to the World of Literature
Gnooks is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel the map. of literature and discuss your favorite books and authors.
10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com
The most dreaded word in school reading for students: book reports. Teachers assign them, viewing them as a necessary component of assessing reading comprehension. Book reports can be a contributing factor to ‘readicide’. “Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools.” http://stenhouse.com/html/readicide.htm. So, how can we as teachers continue to monitor our students understanding of reading material without killing the love of reading? Enter technology. Technology can help bring some excitement and creativity to the traditional book report while still displaying students understanding of reading.
ReadingResources4FrenchTeachers - home
This site was created so that French teachers can collaborate and find the sources they need to empower students to read in French.
~If French and Francophone literature is part of your curriculum, this Wiki is for you!
~If you present your 21st century French language learners with authentic readings from the web, this Wiki is for you!
Toy Theater - Home
Step up to the stage and have fun with music, art, math, reading, puzzles and an adventure playset. We want you to get our creative brain cells working overtime as you explore and discover the wonderful adventure called toy theater!
Novelinks
Novelinks includes online as well as printed references to biographical, historical and critical insights on authors and their works. We also offer reading strategies and units for specific novels under the heading reading resources.
Word List Generator
The Word List Generator Project has created a database of 2084 words that elementary school teachers can use to help students practice and build sounding out and word-form recognition skills.
Open Library
One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty, but achievable, goal.
To build it, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a brand new database infrastructure for handling huge amounts of dynamic information, a wiki interface, multi-language support, and people who are willing to contribute their time, effort, and book data.
To date, we have gathered about 30 million records (20 million are available through the site now), and more are on the way. We have built the database infrastructure and the wiki interface, and you can search millions of book records, narrow results by facet, and search across the full text of 1 million scanned books.
Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone! This is an Open project - the software is open, the data is open, the documentation is open, and the site is open.
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