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Cathlin LaRocco

Most Recent Articles & Videos - Choice Literacy - 0 views

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    Tons of articles and videos for teaching literacy. Many are free, some require a membership to the website.
Mark McDonough

Newsela | Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events - 0 views

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    similar to tween tribune, but teachers/students can choose among several reading levels for each article. with accounts, students can take quizzes.
Mark McDonough

BiblioNasium - Kids Share Book Recommendations. Use Online Reading Logs, Find Books At ... - 0 views

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    (secure) social network for students based on reading. free. looks potentially very good. 
Mark McDonough

How to Compose a Quality Comment! on Vimeo - 0 views

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    excellent video by 3rd grade bloggers on how to write good comments on blogs. 4 minutes.
Mark McDonough

Rewards of teaching young children to blog - 0 views

  • When I first started blogging, I thought the posts would be the primary focus of the blog. I quickly realized that the comment section was where the blog came to life.
  • Many parents work but would love to volunteer in some way. Last year, I asked parents to become “virtual volunteers” for our blogs. A virtual volunteer is a person who supports the blog by commenting back to students. This type of interaction helps strengthen the home-school connection and makes the comment sections more engaging.
  • With classroom time at a premium, I look for meaningful ways to integrate curriculum; the blog has been the perfect venue. When my class read “The Great Kapok Tree” by Lynne Cherry for language arts, the students followed up their reading by researching a rain forest animal that was mentioned in the story. Each student composed a comment for the blog from the point of view of that animal.
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  • During our biography unit, I had each student select a famous person to study. Students submitted a creative comment pretending they were that person. George Washington got a comment from Queen Elizabeth I, Mozart and Tchaikovsky were chatting; the blog comments truly brought these historic people to life!
  • Of all the riches that blogging has brought to my class, the relationships we’ve built with other classrooms around the world have been the most rewarding.
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    good, quick overview of how a 3rd grade teacher uses blogging. includes specific examples.
Mark McDonough

Capstone Interactive Library - Capstone - 0 views

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    another possibility for judy's lsf grant.
Mark McDonough

The Future In Reading - 1 views

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    possibility for judy's lsf grant
Mark McDonough

Subtext - 1 views

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    This looks to have great potential!
Joe Colombo

Toon Book - 0 views

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    Free book read alouds - great literacy station for kiddos who need help with fluency
Mark McDonough

Storynory, Free Audio Stories for Kids - 1 views

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    this might be a useful resource for k's lsf grant for audiobooks.
Mark McDonough

Frist Graders with iPads? article from Learning and Leading - August 2012 - 1 views

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    "favorite apps" & websites section of article on using ipads with struggling readers.
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    we have some, but not all, of these apps installed.
Mark McDonough

DIY Reading Records | Beth Holland - 0 views

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    "DIY Reading Records". nice twist for reading buddies.
Mark McDonough

4 Tips To Help Students Start Blogging - From Holly Clark on Edudemic | Leading Change ... - 0 views

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    good reminders and a paper way to introduce/practice blogging.
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