Great Sites to Bookmark...highlights some of the best places to visit for up to date learning about literacy. If you know of one that I haven't included, please let me know so I can post it! Have fun exploring.
ReadWriteThink
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Choice Literacy
"Are you looking for the "how" of teaching reading and writing, written by colleagues who are just as smart, funny, and passionate about literacy as you are? Welcome! You've found Choice Literacy, the home on the web for teachers who lead. We are literacy coaches, teachers, and school leaders with experience in dozens of diverse classrooms. This site presents the best of the tools, guides, literacy lessons, and sage advice we've gathered and tucked away as we've worked together over the years, as well as our latest thinking on topics like standards and technology. To learn how the site works, view the two-minute video tour." |
Center for Teaching Quality
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EDUTOPIA
Mission: "We are dedicated to transforming kindergarten through 12th-grade (K-12) education so all students can thrive in their studies, careers, and adult lives. We are focused on practices and programs that help students acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, skills and beliefs to achieve their full potential." Videos of lessons, articles and more! Read Aloud Videos - PreK-4
Reminiscent of Reading Rainbow - this Pinterest Board shares hundreds of titles read aloud with animation and music.....Some will be classics you know and others will be new to you and your child! Great fun. |
Poetry Idea Engine
Poetry Creator- Create your own poem. Students can put into practice their knowledge of different poetry such as; haiku, limerick, cinquain, and free verse. This site is interactive whiteboard ready. The Reading & Writing Project @ Columbia University
Visit this site for all of the latest and greatest in writing and reading! "Thirty years ago, Lucy Calkins, fresh from apprenticing in British primary schools, teaching in elementary, middle and high schools, and from working for several years with Don Graves on the nation’s first big study of writing development, joined the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University. While researching writing development for the National Institute of Education, Lucy had also been working as a staff developer in a score of schools and now, with her new responsibilities at the university, she needed to bring others aboard to help her continue supporting those schools. Within a few years, a cadre of people who had been Lucy’s students were now functioning as the organization’s founding team. Georgia Heard, Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi and Shelley Harwayne were among the members of that initial team." |