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Some ideas on teaching question asking.

In this program you can create questions for students to answer and (if they had laptops, ipods, or ipads they could use at their desk) they could answer the questions. (this could be done as a center since we don't have enough laptops for all students) This could be a quiz or test.

Whether you use a reading workshop approach or not, guided reading is a component of literacy that many K-5 teachers use in their classroom. I want our sessions to have a comfortable feeling where students can ask questions, try new strategies, and work together to become more strategic readers.

Excellent resource for teachers who blog. Answers why, what, and other questions and provides links to nice resources and additional information.

You all should read this as you dig deeper into blogging this semester.

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities, or click below to find out how to get our engaging 15-minute video programs. Behind the Lesson provides information and teaching resources for each strategy.

I have used this in my class!

This site has info. on new children's books and classics. It also provides Trivia questions on books and gives kid friendly author information. May be good to use with author studies in the classroom.

Vocabulary.com will help you to master the words that are essential to academic and business success. Simply answer the question to the right to get started!

This site is a bit dated (2005) but it does address some of the questions that I have read about on the threaded discussion. It provides suggestions for how to protect children online and how to successfully implement a blog in the classroom from different aged students.

This site gives a brief definition of what literacy means. It points out that literacy is not just knowing isolated pieces of information, but rather having the ability to use language in broader ways. This site also provides literature "Research" information and additional websites and resources for teachers.

I thought this site was very detailed and thought through to help assist teachers or educators with their questions about literacy. On the website you will find the definition of literacy, their literacy beliefs, literature review, action research, references, and favorite literacy web sites. Under literacy beliefs, they have broken down the term into four categories- learner, curriculum, teacher, and assessment. This is great for educators as they can read specific beliefs on literacy based on the specific topic of interest or need.

This site has short animated videos on several different topics. I like to use it to introduce topics to my kindergarten students. The main character Annie asks useful questions and then answers them. You need a subscription to access everything, but some of them are free.

This is a remarkable site. Access to free, great books for your students and an opportunity to earn free books for your classroom or others through the "Read for My School" campaign.

If you haven't registered an account and started using this site with your kids, the question becomes, "WHY NOT?!"

I use this site with my students and it really is great!

TodaysMeet is a good way to have a quick convo in a relatively quiet place. I use it in my classroom for an instant feedback on a whole group or small group question. They use the netbooks or ipad's to respond.

Task cards are a great way for students to work independently by being prompted with a series of activities to complete or questions to answer. Task cards are easy to make and are very efficient. Listed on this website are some Literacy based task cards created by Mrs. McDavid for Literacy Centers.

At this website you can find all sorts of literacy activities for each holiday. Just click on the holiday and begin exploring! For St. Patrick's day you will find a list of picture books that are great for St. Patty's day... http://www.theholidayzone.com/stpat/books.html. There's also some neat discussion question ideas available as well. enjoy.