How to Make a Podcast .http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=c02f9902576ec55ebbe7
Assorted Web Sites with Activities http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interactive.htm#Language%20Arts
Getting Started with Flikr: http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=4a552c17fcbb1442d789
Article 1. Text of Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well: Six Features of Effective Instruction http://cela.albany.edu/publication/brochure/guidelines.pdf
Article 2. Getting Acquainted with the Essential Nine http://www.middleweb.com/MWLresources/marzchat1.html
Article 3. Explanation of Frayer’s Model http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/frayer.htm
Article 4. Blank worksheet of Frayer’s Model http://www.writingfix.com/worksheets/RICA_PDFS/Frayer_model.pdf
Article 1. Vocabulary Instructions, Tools, and Strategies: http://www.flreads.org/Publications/Cutting_Edge/CuttingEdge2003_files/CuttingEdge2003.pdf
Article 2. 14 Words That Make All The Difference: http://www.lexfiles.com/14-words.html
Article 3. Concepts Words: Vocabulary Assessments. http://www.fountasandpinnellbenchmarkassessment.com/samples/B2vocabConcept.pdf
Article 4. Vocabulary Building: Affixes and Roots. http://www.uefap.com/vocab/build/building.htm
Article 5. Prosody: http://www.eptotd.btinternet.co.uk/pow/powin.htm
Article 6. Assessing Reading Fluency by Timothy Rasinski (Assessing Reading Fluency is intended to assist practitioners in monitoring students’ fluency development: http://www.prel.org/products/re_/assessing-fluency.htm
Article 7. Three Minute Reading Assessments: http://estore.treca.org/estore/files/samples/TRE_estore/SCH/sch0439650909s.pdf
Article 8. Reading Fluency with Reader’s Theatre: http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.book/menuitem.6b8e5ca7dd1e8e8cdeb3ffdb62108a0c/?bookMgmtId=48736ac82b034010VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD
Teaching Styles Quiz (interactive): http://members.shaw.ca/mdde615/tchstylsquiz7.htm
Snowflake “Multiple Intelligence” Quiz (interactive): http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/mi/w1_interactive1.html
Fifteen Benefits of Discussion: http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/hi216/learning/discussion.html
Socratic seminars: engaging students in intellectual discourse: http://www.middleweb.com/Socratic.html
Indians Claim Italy by Rights of Discovery: http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/inditaly.htm
Article 1. Animal School story: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/hblim/passages/animalschool.htm
Article 2. Multiple Intelligences: http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/MI%20Smarts/smarts.htm
Article 3. Newer Views of Learning Multiple Intelligences: Special Intelligence Indicators: http://www.uwsp.edu/Education/lwilson/learning/miindicators.htm
Article 4. Differentiated Instruction: http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_diffinstruc.html
Article 5. How to Differentiate Instruction (teaching methods): http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/differentiate/print.htm
Article 6. Using Data to Differentiate (by Brimjohn): http://www.hccsc.k12.in.us/technology/tip/Teachers'%20Academy/Data%20to%20Differentiate.pdf
Article 7. You Can’t Learn Much from Books You Can’t Read (look for Nov 2002 of Educational Leadership issue): http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.MAXIMIZE/menuitem.459dee008f99653fb85516f762108a0c/?javax.portlet.tpst=d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_ws_MX&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_journaltypeheaderimage=%2FASCD%2Fimages%2Fmultifiles
Bloom’s Taxonomy posters, ppt, other resources: http://www.kurwongbss.qld.edu.au/thinking/Bloom/blooms.htm
Teacher’s Handbook of Lesson Plans (includes Quick Writes): http://www.floridatechnet.org/GED/LessonPlans/LanguageArtsWriting/languageartslesson52.pdf
Interactive Literacy Bulletin Boards (with examples of Data Walls) http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/reading%20bulletin%20boards.htm
MEAP Data grades 3 - 5: http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-22709_31168_31355-95471--,00.html
MEAP Data grades 6 - 8 http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-22709_31168_31355-95470--,00.html
Reasons to Write (from Ferris State University—lists common purposes for writing): http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/academics/wac/purposes.htm#Writing-to-learn
A Handbook of Content Strategies: 125 Practical Reading and Writing Ideas, 2nd Edition (recommended book—unavailable on the Internet): http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Content-Literacy-Strategies-Practical/dp/1929024819
Text Forms and Features: A Resource for Intentional Teaching by Margaret Mooney (recommended book—unavailable on the Internet): http://www.amazon.com/Text-Forms-Features-Resource-Intentional/dp/1572744561
Expository Text Structures (explanation of two types with examples): http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/venekaml/Lewis%20and%20Clark/EXPOSITORY%20TEXT%20STRUCTURES.htm
GLCE Genre Wheel:
http://mmc.edzone.net/documents/other/GLCE%20Genre%20Wheel%206-8new.pdf
GLCE Genre Wheel (grades 1-5): http://mmc.edzone.net/documents/other/GLCE%20Genre%20Wheel%20K-5new.pdf
Signal Words For Determining Text Patterns: http://www.literacymatters.org/lessons/mahonworksheet.doc
6 plus 1 Traits Scoring Continuum: http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/pdfRubrics/6plus1traits.PDF
Writing to Think: Activities for Teaching Literature in a Second or Foreign Language by Elizabeth Knutson: http://128.100.205.43/access/jour.ihtml?lp=product/cmlrToClass/563knutson.html
Learning Styles (Modalities, Strategies) web site: http://members.shaw.ca/priscillatheroux/styles.html
Six Trait Poster in Word or PDF: http://www.readinglady.com/Six_Trait_Writing/index.html
Six Traits of Writing Poster: http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/concord/teacherlinks/sixtraits/posterspage.htm
Step by Step Instructions for Writing a Narrative: http://www.greatsource.com/iwrite/students/s_bio_narr.html
Annotating a Text: http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/annotating%20a%20text.htm
Collaborative Annotation: http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/collaborative%20annotation.htm
Marking Your Textbook (example page): http://www.csupomona.edu/~lrc/crsp/handouts/marking_textbook.html
The Middle School High Five: Strategies can Triumph (Read Around the Text, Two Column Notes, etc.): http://www.asdk12.org/MiddleLink/about/Strategies_Can_Triumph.pdf
Michigan Definition of Reading: http://www.michiganreading.org/MI%20DEFINITION%20OF%20READING0505.pdf
High School Newsletter; second page describes a data wall: http://www.nhps.net/uploads_docs/internalnewsfinalwinter2006(1).pdf
Maximize Comprehension by Marking Your Text (what to do): http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/AS/609.htm
Textmapping Project: http://www.textmapping.org/index.html
Using Text Scrolls: http://www.textmapping.org/using.html
Using Think-Alouds to Improve Reading Comprehension: http://www.indiana.edu/~crls/rogerfarr/mcr/usingta/usingta.html
Content Literacy: http://www.literacymatters.org/content/intro.htm
Reading Goal: http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/ela/reading01.html
Improving Reading Strategies and Resources by Jerry John (recommended book): http://www.amazon.com/Improving-Reading-Strategies-Resources-Fourth/dp/0757514537
Document Analysis Worksheets (Written, Cartoon, Poster, Photograph, Map, Artifact, Motion Picture, Sound Recording): http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/
Rosa Parks, the Woman Who Changed a Nation: http://grandtimes.com/rosa.html
Reading Strategy Awareness Inventory: http://www.berea.edu/cltcr/documents/tipsheets/4-Reading/C-ReadingStrategyAwareness.pdf
Characteristics of Learning Styles: http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/gw_learning_styles.pdf
Suggested Aids for Learning Modalities: http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/pylems/students/studying/SUGGESTED_AIDS_FOR_LEARNING_MODALITIES.pdf
QAR—Teaching Children Where to Seek Answers to Questions (13 page Word document): http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/QARQuestionAnswerRelationshipTeachingChildrenWheretoSeekAnswerstoQuestions.doc
Not able to open: http://real.playstream.com:8080/ramgen/sinc/teacherradio2/tr12_20020121_robb.smi
Motivating Struggling Readers in Middle School Through an Engagement Model of Classroom Practice by John T Guthrie, Marcia H. Davis (28 page PDF): http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/3PREFAQUCWUAL4P6.pdf
Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension (list of strategies in left column): http://www.readingquest.org/strat/home.html
From Reading Quest, Opinion-Proof Strategy: http://www.readingquest.org/strat/opinion.html
Self Assessment of Modality Strength (14 questions): http://www.esl.ucsb.edu/people/rightmire/workshops/Self_Assessment_of_Modality_Strengths.html
The Five Strategies (comprehension from The Strategic Reading and Teaching Project): http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/teach/curriconline/guide/la/secondary/STRP/index.htm
Tools for Reading, Thinking and Writing (from the Greece, NY, School District; contains description of activity and classification as reading or writing strategy): http://web000.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Tools/Index.htm
Profundity in the Margins (diagram): http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/Profundity%20in%20the%20Margins%20from%20Jeff.doc
Narrative Profundity Matrix (diagram): http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/Profundity%20Matrix-Narrative%20by%20Jeff.doc
Sample Lesson Using the Expository Profundity Scale: http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/Profundity-%20sample%20lesson%20plan%20for%20expository%20profundity.doc
Narrative Profundity Scale (Chart): http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/Profundity%20Scale-Narrative%20from%20Jeff.doc
Thematic Unit Related to ELA Prototypes: Integrity, a Fourth Grade Unit (Word document) http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/Profundity%20Thematic%20Unit%20for%20intermediate%20from%20Jefflong.doc
Little Red Riding Hood story(with cute little pictures): http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/littlered/1.htm
The Frog Prince by John Scieszka (Readers Theatre): http://www.timelessteacherstuff.com/readerstheater/FrogPrince.pdf
Article 1. Expository Profundity: http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/Profundity-Expository%20Packet%20by%20Jeff.doc
ELA Best Practices: A Resource of Constructivist Teaching Strategies to Promote Active Student Learning: http://web000.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Best%20Practices/Index.htm
Greece, NY, School District L.A. website with links to various strategies to use: http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/Index.htm
Mid-Michigan Consortium (website contains many support documents for the teaching of reading and writing in the content areas): http://mmc.edzone.net/micurriculumdocs.html
The ReadingLady Teaching Tools (multiple tools for teaching strategies, lesson plans, etc., for reading and writing): http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/tools.htm