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Dana Huff

10 Ways to Celebrate Banned Books Week With The New York Times - NYTimes.com - 9 views

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    Held annually during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of intellectual freedom and draws attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted banning of books across the United States, including books commonly taught in secondary schools. Here are ideas for celebrating Banned Books Week -- with your students, your children and anyone who believes in having "the freedom to read."
Dana Huff

Books That Shaped America - National Book Festival (Library of Congress) - 5 views

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    The Library of Congress shares an exhibition of "Books that Shaped America." Librarian of Congress James H. Billington says that the list is "intended to spark a national conversation on books written by Americans that have influenced our lives, whether they appear on this initial list or not."
Berylaube 00

Community Club Home Listen and Read - Non-fiction Read Along Activities Scholastic - 3 views

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    From Richard Byrne Free Technology for teacher, quoted below:Listen and Read - Non-fiction Read Along Activities Listen and Read is a set of 54 non-fiction stories from Scholastic for K-2 students. The stories are feature pictures and short passages of text that students can read on their own or have read to them by each story's narrator. The collection of stories is divided into eight categories: social studies, science, plants and flowers, environmental stories, civics and government, animals, American history, and community. Applications for Education Listen and Read looks to be a great resource for social studies lessons and reading practice in general. At the end of each book there is a short review of the new words that students were introduced to in the book. Students can hear these words pronounced as many times as they like. Listen and Read books worked on my computer and on my Android tablet. Scholastic implies that the books also work on iPads and IWBs"
Dennis OConnor

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the ... - Google Books - 12 views

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    This is a great book for any writing teacher. I bought my copy in 86 when it first came out. Here it is on Google books. Support Natalie Goldberg's work. Buy a copy!
Mark Smith

Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 14 views

  • We all may read books the way we increasingly read magazines and newspapers: a little bit here, a little bit there.
  • People tweet and text one another during plays and movies, forming judgments before seeing the arc of the entire work.
  • Recent books by respected authors like Malcolm Gladwell (“Outliers”), Susan Faludi (“The Terror Dream”) and Jane Jacobs (“Dark Age Ahead”) rely far more heavily on cherry-picked anecdotes — instead of broader-based evidence and assiduous analysis — than the books that first established their reputations. And online research enables scholars to power-search for nuggets of information that might support their theses, saving them the time of wading through stacks of material that might prove marginal but that might have also prompted them to reconsider or refine their original thinking.
Dana Huff

Book Drum - 16 views

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    Book Drum is the perfect companion to the books we love, bringing them to life with immersive pictures, videos, maps and music.
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    It has been a great tool for close reading in my AP Lit class. Love Bookdrum!
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    Thanks so much Really exceptional and so interactive..
Caroline Bachmann

GUYS READ | Books - 19 views

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    Welcome to the Guys Read Virtual Vault of Good Books. This is the place to come if you're looking for something to get a guy reading. We've collected recommendations from teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, parents, and guys themselves. These are the books that guys have said they like. We've gathered and grouped them to make them easier to find. So check out the categories below or type something-a title, an author, or a subject you're interested in-over there on the left.
Tania Sheko

The Merchant of Venice - Book Graphics - 4 views

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    The Merchant of Venice - Book graphics - illustrations by Sir James D. Linton. 
Dana Huff

YourNextRead: Book Recommendations (USA) - 10 views

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    Finished a book you really liked? Try YourNextRead to discover a book like it.
Leslie Healey

Not the Booker prize: Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke | Books | guardian.co.uk - 2 views

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    hmmmmm...I have had students tell me that YoungAdult ficiton is mostly "kid books" interesting review. Anyone read this book?
Dana Huff

Book Review Bingo: More book review cliche fun than you can shake a riveting, unputdown... - 7 views

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    This game would be good for teaching cliches.
Keith Schoch

Fightin' Words: Using Picture Books to Teach Argumentative Writing - 15 views

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    How to use picture books as mentor texts with middle schoolers to move students beyond simply persuasive writing to the argumentative writing that is required by the CCSS.
anonymous

Mortimer Adler: Great Books, Philosophy, Great Ideas - 0 views

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    Website for all Adler's ideas, books. Includes lists and foundations for Great Books ideas.
Meredith Stewart

RealeBooks.com - 1 views

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    RealeBooks.com is your gateway to a bounty of free online family-friendly RealeBooks ("Really Books") - striking picture books, written and designed by students, teachers, and parents from around the world with RealeWriter ("Really Writer") software so ea
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    Create picture books and print them
anonymous

Goodreads - 0 views

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    * See what your friends are reading. * Keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read. * Get great book recommendations from people you know. * Answer book trivia and collect your favorite quotes.
Jane Lofton

10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com - 0 views

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    lists ideas for technology-based book reports.
Joseph Alvarado

Free Audio Books - Download an audio book in mp3 or iPod format today! - 7 views

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    Source of free audio books that can be downloaded in mp3, Ipod, and Itunes format.
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