Teacher links for Laurie Halse Anderson's book Chains

Give me six minutes and I'll give you six techniques that'll make you a happy and productive writer.

"ReadingQuest is designed to provide you with the philosophical bases for sound comprehension strategy instruction, directions for a range of comprehension and content reading strategies, and printable handouts and masters for transparencies."

QAR reading strategy

"Habits of Mind is knowing how to behave intelligently when you DON'T know the answer. It means having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known: dichotomies, dilemmas, enigmas and uncertainties. Our focus is on performance under challenging conditions that demand strategic reasoning, insightfulness, perseverance, creativity, and craftsmanship. The critical attribute of intelligent human beings is not only having information, but also knowing how to act on it. Employing Habits of Mind requires drawing forth certain patterns of intellectual behavior that produce powerful results. They are a composite of many skills, attitudes and proclivities."

A list of electronic resources. 

Have you ever learned about a new (or new to you) tech tool and thought, "Wow -- how did I not know about this?".  Saturday I attended EdCamp Citrus, and experienced this during one of the sessions.  Here is a list of my favorite free lesser-known webtools, all mentioned at EdCamp Citrus' Web 2.0 Smackdown.

Since 1987, the Young Adults' Choices project has developed an annual list of new books that will encourage adolescents to read. The books are selected by the readers themselves, so they are bound to be popular with middle and secondary school students. The reading list is a trusted source of book recommendations, used by adolescents, their parents, teachers, and librarians.

Teaching all children to read in today's diverse classrooms requires a reading specialist in every school. Reading specialists provide expert instruction, assessment, and leadership for the reading program. With their advanced preparation and experience in reading, they are responsible for the literacy performance of all readers, in particular those who struggle.

As the world's leading association of literacy professionals, IRA works diligently to define and describe what reading educators should know and be able to do. For more than two decades, IRA's professional standards have been used by policymakers, university and school administrators, teacher educators, and teachers at all levels to inform pre- and in-service teacher preparation and professional development and to guide professional practice.

A game looking at energy choices and the impact they have on quality of life and government funds. If we do a expedition about building a green home this might be a good activity.

four split screens with Google as the homepage might be useful for research. Or could really just be a distraction.

For those who need to know the math and language arts common core standards NOW! There is an iPhone and Android app to see them.

Wordia - the authorative online textual dictionary, where you bring words to life through video!

K-12 list by grade/subject of pre-made jeopardy games

"14 Steps to Meaningful Student Blogging So you have heard about blogging with your students and you are considering taking the plunge but just not sure what or how to do it?"

"It's a great presentation from David White at Oxford University, outlining his principle of [digital] residents and [digital] visitors - a much more fluid concept of tech users, and a lot more helpful as well! "