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"WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials.

WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text.

Creative teachers will find an endless variety of uses for WordSift, but here are some ways:

Lesson preparation: A teacher can use WordSift to review assigned text to identify challenging words or concepts prior to a lesson, and identify images and videos to use in class.

Previewing text: In whole class or individually, students can preview text. Reading comprehension research suggests that previewing text is a useful strategy for improving comprehension. Using WordSift to identify the key vocabulary, and playing with the images and to use the example source sentence feature to "skim" the text can help students who might otherwise struggle with the complexity of the text.

Group activities: Teachers have found simple activities using small portions of WordSift useful. For example, one teacher has developed a simple routine in which she gives students the TagCloud, and has them working in small groups to write or draw a page using the words in the cloud.

Literacy support: Individual students can use WordSift as they read text, or as they write a response or summary. Adult users of WordSift have reported using WordSift for their own purposes to skim text (as one teacher said, "I don't skim, I sift") and also to review their own writing drafts.

Assessment: Whole-class vocabulary assessment can be done on-the-fly by showing the images from selected words, having them identify unfamiliar words, and having students talk about which picture is the best representation of a given word. "

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"Lessons - ReadWriteThink offers a wide array of standards-based lesson plans that meaningfully integrate Internet content into the teaching and/or learning experience.

Web Resources - An important component of ReadWriteThink is our collection of Web resources. These resources are selected in adherence to a rigorous set of criteria and are thoroughly reviewed by our Review Panel.
* Instructional Resources-sites that provide instructional resources for the teacher, such as lesson plans, classroom activities, and teaching techniques
* Professional Development-sites that offer current information in the teaching profession, including research findings, teaching trends, and noteworthy events
* Reference Library-sites that provide specific information or offer general reference resources
* Student Resources-sites that provide online interactive resources for students engaging in a reading or writing exercise

Literacy Engagements - Lessons on ReadWriteThink can be sorted by literacy engagements so that teachers can highlight specific language functions in the classroom.

Student Materials - To enhance interactive learning, ReadWriteThink has produced a selection of lessons that incorporate online activities for K-12 students. These interactives are primarily intended to assist students with a reading or writing activity. "

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This is an online streaming video site featuring famous actors reading childrens books aloud. Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas.

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Middle school reading interactive resources.

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