If spelling words are simply strings of letters to be learnt by heart with no meaning attached and no investigation of how those words are constructed, then we are simply assigning our children a task equivalent to learning ten random seven-digit PINs each week.
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Pleasure Reading Survey « National Reading Campaign - 4 views
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Those reading the most have family incomes of from $30,000 to under $50,000.
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Past research has found that reading for pleasure is linked to better overall satisfaction with life, higher incomes, healthier relationships (lower divorce rates), and better mental health.
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Past research has found that reading for pleasure is linked to better overall satisfaction with life, higher incomes, healthier relationships (lower divorce rates), and better mental health.
121writing.com - fast, high quality feedback for writing - 9 views
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Provide fast and effective feedback to students on their writing by adding audio comments to their google docs writing pieces. Highlight the parts that you are speaking about, record the audio feedback and then share it with them. Awesome!
LITERACY___SPECIAL___INTEREST - 1 views
CmapTools - Home Page Cmap.html - 4 views
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A free downloadable mind mapping tool similar to Inspiration
GUYS READ - 0 views
ReThinkingLiteracy - home - 12 views
New Literacy in the Web 2.0 World - 16 views
Most Amazing Photos - 8 views
Spelling Bee | Spelling Game | Spelling Words | Spelling Contest | Online | grades | ki... - 7 views
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Create a class spelling competition or play in the world spelling bowl. Change your year level to suit your ability level.
BBC Schools - Spellits - 4 views
Random Book Title Generator - 5 views
msansbach - NaNoWriMo - 0 views
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November is Novel Writing Month for some schools. This wiki provides resources for helping your students write a novel in November. Includes minilesson ideas etc.
Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies - 1 views
Teaching Authors--6 Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing - 3 views
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A lovely blog post about the daily search for inspiration to write a poem.
In Focus - The Atlantic - 4 views
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Amazing animal photos. Very useful as writing prompts.
Knowmia - Thousands of Video Lessons on Every Subject - 7 views
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Grammar lessons on video for middle years students.
Poetry « April Halprin Wayland - Children's Book Author & Poet - 0 views
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A poem a day. Ideas and examples
riss leung
I'm an Australian ICT coordinator passionate about integrating ICT into everyday curriculum. I am developing a wiki on age appropriate teaching resources that teachers can use in their classrooms.