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What is Predictable Chart Writing?

Chris and Melissa Bugaj partnered with Eliza Anderson to create this slidedeck for a presentation on authentic writing experiences at ATIA15

"Experience a Story: Listen to stories, read and view pictures inspired by our collections created by visitors like you. Tell a Story: Become a storyteller as you write and record a story inspired by works in the museum's collection. Picture a Story: Create your own work of art using objects and characters found in some of the museum's most noteworthy paintings. Enjoy, and let your creativity flow through pictures and words!"

"Review elements of a tweet. Ask students to write their 'handle' (i.e. username) on the top of 3 post its. Play a video, pausing to allow students to add something they learned on their post it to mimic a tweet. Display the tweets around the room and have students walk around the room creating at least three reply tweets to other students."

PODCAST D&D IN THE CLASSROOM D&D Podcasts - 02/10/2015 Learn how a Texas high school teacher is changing education through the power of D&D! Kade Wells is a teacher in the Houston, TX area and he uses Dungeons & Dragons in his 9th grade classroom to teach writing, reading and critical thinking skills in his language arts classes. He presented his technique at the World Literacy Conference this summer in Austria, reporting on how using D&D improved his student's scores across the board. Listen to learn how Kade is changing education through the power of D&D!

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LCPS announcement about home use of Read Write Gold.

This literacy software program has a toolbar with Reading, Writing, Study Skills, and Research tools that include text-to-speech, word prediction, talking spell check and calculator, and more. The customizable toolbar floats on top of applications such as Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, and Adobe Reader, so students can access the support tools when needed.

The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples. This interactive allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept.

Want to save time and effort when scoring your students' writing? Use WriQ...and help build a new writing metric!

Online course for Read&Write for Google Chrome

In this glossary you will find animated, narrated videos explaining the use of punctuation. You can also find the same type of video explaining the parts of speech and mechanics of writing.

There are examples of how to correctly cite works of writing from grade 1-6.

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Tools for presentation, collaboration, research, video, audio, drawing, writing, music, organizing, converting, mapping, quizzing, graphing, creativity, widgets and more!!

This MS Word four square writing template is a colorful table with cells to type sentences, and sound recorder icons to make voice recordings.

Compares features of Read&Write Gold, Kurzweil, WYNN, and ClaroRead

"Reading and writing are modalities of  language (just like listening & talking). The more we integrate literacy into language learning the more opportunities for prAACtice and learning.  Think of all the ways to prAACtice core words with reading and writing (e.g., "read again", "write about that", "that is good", "He was bad", "tell me more", "I know", etc…). With this in mind, we love encouraging a love of literacy for ALL of our students. Here are some top tips we have learned from the most reluctant reader/writers, to beginning reader/writers, to even the more proficient readers/writers. It is such a great pleasure to watch students begin to love literacy as much as we do."

Printing and worksheets are free and available for use by educators, parents and others who work to support students in home and school settings. For practicing: Consider placing a worksheet in a clear protective sheet cover and using it with a wipe off pen for repeated practices. For use on devices, consider taking a screenshot of the page to use as a background for writing and/or drawing apps or to print out particular sections in a larger format!

Texthelp's HELP regarding Word Prediction within the Read & Write Gold toolbar