Building Vocabulary Skills
The more words kids know, the more background knowledge they can bring to reading and writing tasks. How can we help our students learn new words?
Gathering information to share? How do you pull everything together? LiveBinders is your online 3-ring binder. Best of all, it's free! Would be great for writing portfolios.
Peter Smagorinsky hosts this web site and populates it with links to exceptional, full texts, useful to teachers of writing. Here you'll find George Hillocks' "Observing and Writing," Johannessen, Kahn, & Walter's "Designing and Sequencing Prewriting Activities," and many other works. It's a gold mine.
"A Different Way to Read Great Literature! This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!"
The most dreaded word in school reading for students: book reports. Teachers assign them, viewing them as a necessary component of assessing reading comprehension. So, how can we as teachers continue to monitor our students understanding of reading material without killing the love of reading? Enter technology.