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Welcome to Oxford Owl - a free website built to help you with your child's learning. Recommended by 100% of teachers* and full of great support for reading, and maths. Oxford Owl has been extended to provide practical advice and top tips up to age 11 to help you support your child's reading all the way through their primary school years.

Reading Committee at school plans reading events- inspiring:

Here are a few non-fiction texts that I would include in an intermediate grade classroom library.  Some of these texts you might want to group together into a read aloud text set or as a set of inquiry texts that students would read together in small groups.

Buddy Reading program- wonderful example of how the benefit of buddy reading can work both ways: 

We were going to use the app as a writing station this year ... but with our new filtering system the app doesn't seem to work very well with the embedded videos. #saddayformobilelearning Works OK with the webpage ... kiddos just can't see the videos when logged in as a student. As teachers we CAN get in to YouTube or Vimeo.

Booktalking is one of the most effective way to get kids reading.  Entice young readers to open a book … engage their interest … invite them into a story.

Here are this year's posts on reading- great ideas from amazing experienced individuals.

Great resource and extended learning ideas.

Loved this video-- Call me maybe parody: Read it Maybe

Good tools plus explanations on application.

Reading suggestions for High School

Great Ideas for celebrating and preparing for Chinese New Year:

Fantastic inquiry/curiosity source - Wonderopolis-- activity cards ready to use!

Great resource

Well worth a read: Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: An Updated Digital Differentiation Model.

Book Reviews: search for the book you're curious about

I have found the following websites useful in my secondary school English classroom as they provide models of diverse ways of sharing personal stories, as well as explicit teaching resources on traditional and modern forms of storytelling.

Does flipped learning mark a transformational change in the way instruction is delivered or is it just a mere replacement of teacher with digital media? This is one of the questions that has created  a lot of controversy among educators. I have read several articles on this topic and have found a huge abyss between how teachers view it. However, flipped learning or not, the use of technology in education should be elevated to the rank of " integration" and so instead of speaking of using technology in teaching which is but doing the same things via the medium of technology, we rather talk about technology integration which is more structured and systematic.

Book selection, mostly for adults

Building a Home Library bibliographies below to provide guidance to parents, grandparents, and others interested in assembling a high-quality library for their children at home. When creating these lists, the committee looked to include tried and true classics, under the radar gems, multicultural books, and new, yet notable, reads for all ages.