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Student Sample - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1irmtPploYBF8MBC1X9T1Pnis1JrMKN1h8gQdcHbSgB8/edit#slide=id.p

"Basically Rewordify takes a block of text or website and replaces difficult words and phrases with text that is easier to understand. The site claims that this helps students read more, understand difficult English faster, and learn words in new ways. I'd throw in that the site can help you and your students break down difficult primary documents." Rewordify tool as primary document decoder

List of Tech Tools

literacy ideas form HCPS fall PD Not sure if you ES folks have access to this

"Welcome to the Documentation site for Voyant Tools, a web-based text analysis and reading environment. Here you will find some help for getting started, more complete documentation for tools (including a collection of screencasts), useful resources (tutorials, workshops, examples), and general information about Voyant Tools." Amazing textual analysis tool. View word frequency, word relationships and more. H/T Tom

This is a list of teachers, coaches, and educators involved in the Math Twitter Blogosphere. The MTBOS is an extremely active and rich community of individuals looking to improve and refine their own math instruction. This document contains an excellent collection of blogs and twitter handles worth sharing with your math teachers.

Crowd sourced (by math teachers) list of iPad Apps for math.

An easy to use template for the Frayer Model made in Google Presentation. Use it for warm-ups or anything else that can help literacy.

Kendall's presentation

Words taken from frameworks and released SOL items.

looked at the curriculum framework for the reading words

"ou can only speak and write English so how do you converse with a person in China who writes Mandarin but doesn't understand a word of English? Google Translate is no doubt a good option but it is going to be tedious for you (and your Chinese friend) to translate each and every sentence manually before sending them through any messenger." Seems cool for communication/collaboration possibilities in foreign language. Could be an interesting way to work with pen pals in another country.