Phonological awareness – a child's ability to detect and use patterns of sound in speech – is one of the early signs of successful development of reading and writing skills.
Researchers said the ability to contract, clip and manipulate words for texting relies on good phonological awareness, and that doing so can help develop literacy.
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Million Futures - 0 views
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awesome visual writing task, def. a quick write
Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education - 0 views
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I believe that the read/write Web, or what we are calling Web 2.0, will culturally, socially, intellectually, and ...
Moodstream™ by Getty Images - 0 views
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Wild site that can be used to initiate some great writing. Think consistient and moving images and video from the Getty image collection, coupled with mood matching music. There is potential here.
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This is pretty wild. If you need a brainstorming tool, try this.
Textnovel - - Home - 0 views
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Write a collaborative novel from your cellular phone.
YouTube - Forrest Gump in One Minute, in One Take - 0 views
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Take this video, put it into the context of your latest classroom reading, be it novel, short story, poem, what have you, and ask yourself if your students could get into this. It's like video sparknotes, only much much better. Summary isn't always writing...
ReadWriteThink: Grades 6 to 8 Activities: Learning Beyond the Classroom - 0 views
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ReadWriteThink has some outstanding resources for using writing to establish the thinking process
Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking - 0 views
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this one rocks. tons of graphic organizers for us to play with.
The Committed Sardine - blog - 1 views
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Hmmm. How would this go over with our peers?
Write or Die by Dr Wicked - 1 views
The Fischbowl: I Read (?) The News Today, Oh Boy - 0 views
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Note that this is additive - no one is suggesting that words don't matter, that what we traditionally think of as "writing" is no longer important, but that the very nature of composition is more complex now, and that our instruction, our pedagogy, our learning spaces need to reflect that.
Download - Ommwriter - 1 views
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If you need a program that blocks out everything else and just lets you write, this one is beautiful.
Dot-to-Dot 2010 - 1 views
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I'd love to get my new students and faculty into something like this.
The Lily Pad - 1 views
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An outstanding take on Google Forms by David Wees. Great use of the format of creating multiple pages to make a choose-your-own-ending story. Will be sharing this one.
How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas? | Edutopia - 0 views
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"Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their households, act as citizens, and conduct their personal lives."
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Let's not forget, also, about the "why?"
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Content is what we teach, but there is also the how, and this is where literacy instruction comes in.
Langwitches Blog » What does it Mean to be Literate? - 0 views
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What do we think of our current definition of literacy? Does it effectively encompass all of the changes we have undergone as readers and thinkers?
TextFlow - 0 views
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This looks like an interesting tool. Will need to see how it differs from the functions of Google Docs first.
WritingFix: Writing Across the Curriculum Resources and Ideas for Teachers - 0 views
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Good stuff found here.
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