HNU Reading

This article talks about the role of vocabulary in predicting reading comprehension for Spanish-English bilingual children and English monolingual children

From In Culture Parent Blog.

Author site and home of Children and YA Lit Resources. This site also features substantive teacher / librarian / researcher resources related to multicultural literature, represented communities, Native American literature, and books related to war and peace.

Understanding and acknowledging the validity of different cultural behaviors and beliefs can present challenges for some teachers. This article addresses some of those issues.

This is another resource for teachers seeking out high quality multicultural/global children's literature.

In this pioneering book-the first to examine the phenomenon of marginalia-H.J. Jackson surveys an extraordinary range of annotated books to explore the history of marginalia, the forms they take, the psychology that underlies them, and the reactions they provoke.

5 characteristics of a story in rap!!! Plot, character, conflict, theme, setting

Interactive, multiple-modality tool for a figurative language lesson. After viewing, students may write their own rap, song, or poem integrating figurative language.

Spelling City helps students with their vocabulary. Students can make flash cards and develop their own vocabulary tests. They can play games involving new vocabulary words to help expose them to unfamiliar words and gain practice using them.