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Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus - 0 views

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    great site for examining words and meanings
Jenny Gilbert

Convert PDF to Word (DOC) - 100% Free! - 0 views

shared by Jenny Gilbert on 18 Jan 11 - Cached
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    a useful site to convert pdf's to editable word docs
Jenny Gilbert

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus - 0 views

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    great site for examining words and meanings
Jenny Gilbert

Transition Words - 0 views

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    Transition words
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Resource: In Search of the Novel - 0 views

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    Discover creative strategies for bringing novels to life for middle and high school students with this workshop, featuring the words and works of 10 novelists, including Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, J. K. Rowling, and Toni Morrison. Within the framework of real classroom practice, the workshop offers interviews with contemporary authors, literary critics, teachers, and students, as well as film clips from adaptations of the novels featured. In Search of the Novel poses basic questions that can help you examine the genre from multiple perspectives and bring it to life for your students.
Jenny Gilbert

Games for the Brain - 1 views

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    some good word games here
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Writing Workshop - 0 views

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    great online interactive on transition words and facts for persuasive writing
Jenny Gilbert

Top 10 sites for Creating Digital Magazines and Newspapers by David Kapuler - 0 views

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    While creating digital magazines or newspapers can be done in a word processor, there are dedicated sites that elevate this art to a whole new level.
Jenny Gilbert

Teaching Reading theory and links - 4 views

I found some intersting links on sustained silent reading and theory on the web look for the SSR tag for the links other notes from these pages: Student love to read under the following circumsta...

widereading teaching english reading

started by Jenny Gilbert on 31 Jan 09 no follow-up yet
Jenny Gilbert

Google Books - 0 views

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    Weekly World news takes off modern society, lifestyles, fears and the media - even a browse of the front pages is funny. In the classroom - we could use something of these to have students consider how tho tell if the media is presenting them the truth - and some of those headlines are fabulous for studying word play
Jenny Gilbert

200 Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs (A - B) - List of Common Homonyms, Homophones,... - 0 views

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    This is a handy list for teachers and students alike.
Jenny Gilbert

wrds words with sound files - 0 views

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    For low skilled learners, Foreign language learners, esl learners - very useful tool.
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Reading between the lines - 0 views

  • 'In other words,'' says Dr Sue Thomson, of the Australian Council for Educational Research, ''larger proportions of students can be described as 'strong performers' in the digital medium than in the print medium.''
  • If anything, what the new technologies will do is provide more opportunities to engage with long-form texts. The distribution mechanism will allow greater access. If you wanted to read almost anything on anything, I can almost guarantee there'll be 5000 words that someone's written about it somewhere, that you can get your hands on in an instant.'
  • ''Everybody's either on a Kindle, emailing, texting, reading the news on their iPads. The digital revolution is not destroying reading. It's changing the shape, the form, the context and maybe how we do it, but I don't think it's diminishing it.''
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  • But does access to more material make us more ''literate''? ''I actually think the evidence shows that most of our children are more literate, if you think of the definition 'literacy' as hugely more complex than it was 30 or 40 years ago and the different sorts of literacies that everyone has to have,'' says Ewing
  • ''At one point of time, if you could sign your name you were 'literate' - and then it was actually a very good measure. Later, if you could do a, say, primary school level of schooling, that was considered to be literacy. Today, I'd say, it's being able to interact with and participate in contemporary society, and in most workplaces these days that takes in having some element of computer literacy.''
  • BUT many worry that screen-based reading is already changing the way we read for the worse, playing to what has been called the Google generation, people with short attention spans who are prone to distraction and turn into ''skimmers''
  • ''Wide reading, particularly wide reading out of school, has a direct correlation with academic success.''
  • nd amid all the gloom and doomsaying, it seems we're still doing plenty of that.
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    Are kids not reading - or is it that the nature of reading has changed - great article
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