CYSD Reading

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James Patterson's site of recommended reading for kids. All ages from birth through middle school.

Famous authors discuss how they became readers and writers.

The first online book rental site with a dedicated experience for children.

(Basically, Netflix for books & kids) A little pricey, but an interesting concept.

This site discusses what students are and are not learning in college. One thing I hear so often at the high school level is that we need to prepare the students for college. The best we can do is help them develop as life long readers and writers.

Explore classic stories "The Wizard of Oz," "The Mermaid," and "Aladdin" and collect treasure. Great activity for using context clues. As the questions pop up, students who don't know the story can click on the link "Read the book to discover the answer" and be taken to the page in the book that contains the information they need to answer. Great for teaching students to go back to the text to find information and use context clues.

Ever heard of an Exquisite Corpse? It's not what you might think. An Exquisite Corpse is an old game in which people write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold it over to conceal part of it and pass it on to the next player to do the same. The game ends when someone finishes the story, which is then read aloud. Our "Exquisite Corpse Adventure" works this way: Jon Scieszka, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, has written the first episode, which is "pieced together out of so many parts that it is not possible to describe them all here, so go ahead and just start reading!" He has passed it on to a cast of celebrated writers and illustrators, who must eventually bring the story to an end. Every two weeks, there will be a new episode and a new illustration. The story will conclude a year from now.

New publications on adolescent literacy issues

a free speed reader, using a new patent pending method that can convert text into meaningful phrases, without requiring linguistic analysis. These phrases are displayed in sequence to instantly speed your reading.

Explore the thinking strategies students need to use before, during, and after reading to improve comprehension of nonfiction selections

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