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This article tells about 10 free internet tools that can be used to build vocabulary skills. These tools can be used in a variety of classrooms for any grade level.

I absolutely love the "combine vocabulary learning and social service" part of this article. The website, freerice.com, is an amazing way to motivate the student to practice their vocabulary. Every time the user gets a vocabulary definition correct the website donates 10 grains of rice through the United Nations World Food Programme! I remember using this years ago when someone posted it to a social media site, and I stayed on it until I'd gotten 600 pieces of rice donated. I definitely want to do this as a fun activity with my student. Thanks for posting this!

Excellent choice. Hoping folks use these tips and try them out when they are applicable.

"How to Act Out a Story" Strategies dealing with the benefits of action out a story

I like this idea of acting out the story. It would be fun for students while also getting them to think about details from the story. I think it would be a great activity to work on comprehension.

I really like this idea! I think it would be a good way to get kids moving around and excited about reading! Also a good alternative to assessing comprehension.

This article discusses a strategy that encourages honest discussion, critical thinking, concept formation, and the use of problem-solving strategy. It also allows the children to make predictions, revising their predictions through reading, and using evidence from the readings to defend their conclusions.

I liked the different strategies that the authors wrote about on page 103. Those strategies seem to be more student-led, which could mean that students are exploring and solving problems with spelling. However, I wonder how the strategies will work if student's aren't used to self-monitoring spelling individually (asking themselves, does it look right, sound right, and make sense)?

While this is a book, there is a lot of the book included in this preview. The book discusses strategies to help students create their own writer's notebook. 

This article connects with our video strategy, because it talks about how struggling readers take leadership roles through discussion.  The article is a study about struggling readers and discussion.

What age group does this target?

what age level is this focused on?

Advanced Children's Literature Course from UNI. Author Studies assignment posts on this blog.

are these units? what do they include?

This blog has posts about authors of multicultural themed books. There is a description of the author, background, biographical and writing style information as well as a list of their books.

This is a credible site to pull lessons from, searchable by grade or topic. IRA/NCTE support this site collaboratively.  Linked to standards

This is a credible site to pull lessons from, searchable by grade or topic. IRA/NCTE support this site collaboratively.  Linked to standards

Jennifer Rowsell's work is essential in this field, she has an excellent book out now about multimodality. She is a prolific researcher and has a design background which makes her writing really interesting (to me).

This article explores the use of iPads in teaching literacy, and the importance of aligning the technology to the best teaching practices and the curriculum.

Review for Thursday's ALP class (11/14/13)

good choice, thanks for posting this

Review for Thursday's ALP class.

smart to include this, relevant since we are on site!

Under related files the sentence frames document includes great sentence frames to use in literacy.

Thank you for adding this, could you tag as a Strategy please?

could you also share this as a link without editing access so that we can all have access to your handout? Thank you, Laura