Group items tagged

BookGlutton is an online bookstore and community for reading groups. It allows online communities to chat inside the book they're reading and annotate each paragraph, sharing their activity with other readers.

The "Rare Book Room" has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world. The original books have been scanned in their entirity and by clicking the page you can zoom in and read the text.

This is an excellent site for teachers and students to display and recommend books they have read. This is a great way to integrate book reviews with ICT. I guarantee the students will love it!

A vook is a new innovation in reading that blends a well-written book, high-quality video and the power of the Internet into a single, complete story.

reading resources

The best phonic literacy (spelling, reading and writing) materials on the whole of the world-wide web, for teachers, students, homeschoolers and those learning English as a second language, helping them with the mastery of high literacy skills.

A resource for teachers, literacy organizations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning.

An excellent site with great ideas for classroom libraries. It as had great stuff for Independent reading. I would show these to the teachers to get inspired. A must see website.

I just came across the web site. I have only watched one video and I thought it was quite good, perhaps you will find something useful here.

Famous actors read their favourite story. Well worth the look. It is also a great site to look at the way actors use expression & fluency to tell a story.

Actor's Guild Reading Picture Story Books

With this add-on, you can highlight a name on any web page and find information on that person on a variety of different sites. Makes professional reading more effective and informative.

The National Writing Project's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing offers successful strategies contributed by experienced writing project teachers. Since NWP does not promote a single approach to teaching writing, readers will benefit from a variety of eclectic, classroom-tested techniques. Award Winner 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing received a first-place Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP). Explore NWP.org's resources on Teaching Writing Writing Prompts English Language Learners Grammar and Usage Academic Writing Writing Across the Curriculum Find more of NWP's free articles on teaching writing More Resources on Teaching Writing Find out more about NWP Read about NWP's impact on student achievement Visit the NWP Bookstore Free Copy of 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing Download a PDF version now. Buy A Copy for $1 Order 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing online. Few sources available today offer writing teachers such succinct, practice-based help-which is one reason why 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing was the winner of the Association of Education Publishers 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award for Instructional Materials. These ideas originated as full-length articles in NWP publications