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Graphic Novels and Manga in the Classroom

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Archive of Children's Poetry

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Everyone ought to be able to read and write; few people within the global mainstream would argue with that statement.

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Fourteen years after we first published ‘Teaching Zack to Think,’ here’s a new three-part framework for making sure students are internet savvy

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Students who learn financial literacy skills gain knowledge that will yield returns well into their future.

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...provides 2,340 story starters for kids.
Now with three times as many story starters!

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Apps for Literacy Support

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Fuel the Brain is a great little site which has numerous games, interactives and printables to help enhance and practice basic skills in Maths, Science and Language Arts. Games are grouped by topic area to make it easier to find ones to suit your lesson objective. You can also search by grade. From the look of it, the site is suitable for years 1-3.

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Below are a list of the apps and a few activities. You can visit each app by clicking on the playlist above.

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Welcome to the Storyboard Generator.
You can choose a script and create a storyboard. Try building your own storyboard using background location photographs.
Once done, you can save and share your storyboard video with friends. Remember to register with Generator first if you would like to save your storyboard.

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These are some of the daily writing prompts that I use in class. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions please let me know. Other stuff I'm working on is over here.

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IRELAND'S HOPE TO CULTIVATE A Knowledge Society actually starts with ensuring teachers can play an active role in it. That's a big hurdle because it means empowering digitally literate teachers.

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Lendmeyourliteracy.org is a unique online resource base for teachers and students of Literacy.
A one stop website for examples of good pieces of literacy work written by children and not just models written in a text book.

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ThumbScribes is a platform for creating collaborative content.

Co+Create haiku, poems, short stories, flash fiction, novellas, exquisite corpse and songs, real time or asynchronously with your computer, tablet, cell phone or even IM.

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From initial charges that ‘it;s just an overgrown iPhone’ the iPad is now part of many teachers’ and schools’ essential kit.

But it’s fair to say that while Apple has created a beautiful, robust and powerful piece of kit finding the best apps on the App Store can be a challenging experience.

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Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising

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MEDIA LITERACY LINKS & RESOURCES

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From Teacher-Librarian to Digital Literacy Impresarios

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Prefixes and suffixes interactive activity

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As school libraries lose funding and staff, they're looking for ways to help people understand what they do and how it impacts student learning.

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