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Gregory Gorres

Write in the Middle - 1 views

www.learner.org/...middlewriting

writing apply

shared by Gregory Gorres on 15 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Gregory Gorres on 15 Apr 11
     
    This site has several videos showing some different strategies from middle school writing classrooms. The strategies are valuable and range from how to create a culture of writing in the classroom to how to get student writiers to enbrace the power of revision.
Laura Bussie

2nd Grade Internet Links - 0 views

www.newton.k12.ks.us/...cond_grade_internet_links1.htm

math science language arts social studies practice review

shared by Laura Bussie on 15 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Laura Bussie on 15 Apr 11
     
    I stumbled upon this site by chance and just love it! It has links to dozens of sites that provide practice in many different areas of reading, writing/grammar, math, science and social studies. I could easily incorporate many of the reading and writing/grammar links, especially the phonics, sight words, and spelling sites into my "word work" literacy station.
Torey Allen

Storybird - 1 views

storybird.com

apply nonlinguistic

shared by Torey Allen on 14 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Torey Allen on 14 Apr 11
     
    This is a very cool tool that could be used for students to creatively apply writing strategies or show understanding of literary elements. The finished products look awesome and would definitely encourage student engagement and effort. There is also the option to share or email stories. The site could be used for varying purposes, subjects, and grade levels.
  • Sue Isakson-Bauer on 17 Apr 11
     
    This website uses a twist to storytelling and sums it up best in their own description: "Storybird reverses the process of visual storytelling by starting with the image and "unlocking" the story inside. Choose an artist or a theme, get inspired, and start writing." It might be just the spark some writers need. I noticed a link to Mother's Day stories. It might be fun to have students write Mother's Day stories and send them via e-mail.
Laurie Keyes

Wordle - 2 views

www.wordle.net

review practice assessment

shared by Laurie Keyes on 29 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Karen Ziegler on 05 Apr 11
     
    Great way to create visual projects!!
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  • Laura Bussie on 07 Apr 11
     
    Using this site, students can create a Wordle document to emphasize important ideas from their learning.
  • Torey Allen on 11 Apr 11
     
    This site could definitely draw interest and be used for all grade levels.
  • Greg Vandehey on 13 Apr 11
     
    This site is a linguistic dreamland! What a great way to have students brainstorm a particular topic. I could see it used as a great way for assessing students prior knowledge about a given topic before teaching. Really this site allows students to incorporate visual/spatial and linguistic intelligences. It's great that you can also view word clouds made by other people on a variety of topics. Also, after you create something, you own it!
  • Sarah Gorres on 15 Apr 11
     
    This site can be used make a visual representation of text. You could also use it to help kids evaluate a writing piece's word choice, for words that are used most often are displayed the largest in a wordle. Students could then revise their writing and show word choice changes by creating a second wordle from their modified writing piece.
  • Laurie Keyes on 15 Apr 11
     
    A great place for students to practice spelling words, adjectives, nouns, etc by creating a word cloud. When you type the words, they only appears as plain type in a word processing format but once you click "go", Wordle does it's magic and creates the cloud. Word clouds are words scattered all over the page in all different ways. The more a certain word is typed, the larger it appears in the word cloud. You can also change background and font once the word cloud is made. This is a great website! So much fun and so many possibilites!
Sarah Gorres

QEI Website - 0 views

qei.wisconsin.edu

PDP collaboration

shared by Sarah Gorres on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Sarah Gorres on 08 Mar 11
     
    PDP writing and reviewing
Sussanah Sasman

Dictionary.com - 0 views

dictionary.reference.com

practice review resource

shared by Sussanah Sasman on 08 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Sussanah Sasman on 15 Apr 11
     
    Dictionary. com is the largest and most trusted free, online dictionary. The site features a dictionary resource, thesaurus, flashcards, crosswords, and word games for homework practice and has an easy- to-use translator feature. When you look up a word, it not only gives you the definition but also an audio pronounciation, related searches, synonyms, nearby words, and information regarding the word's origin and history. As I approach my songwriting unit, I'm excited to have my students use this feature to find descriptive words as they write lyrics.
Laurie Keyes

Magnetic Poetry - 2 views

kids.magpogames.com

practice review assessment

shared by Laurie Keyes on 15 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Laurie Keyes on 15 Apr 11
     
    This is a great website for kindergarten through fourth grade. Students use "magnetic" tiles to create sentences, stories or poems. Depending on what type of project the student chooses, he/she either drags words or phrases to the storyboard. This website also gives students practice on clicking and dragging with the mouse
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  • Laura Bussie on 18 Apr 11
     
    I had a lot of fun with this site. It would be so beneficial to my students who struggle with getting ideas about at to write. Even if they are only able to string a few words or phrases together, it just may jump start a story for them. I thought I might even be able to have two people partner up when we are in the computer lab. Using this site on one computer, and Microsoft Word on another, they could create sentences, and then type them into Word. They would also get some editing practice this way since the site does not have capital letters or punctuation. It might be a bit of a struggle the first few times the kids try it, but it might be worth a shot!
  • Karen Ziegler on 19 Apr 11
     
    A fun site. . . I can see using this with my students to find their sight words and to create simple sentences!
  • Laura Kruschek on 20 Apr 11
     
    I think it's a very fun site. I would like to have my 7th grade students write a poem about on-line safety... I think we will be utilizing this site. Thanks Laurie!
Sarah Gorres

Visual Thesaurus - 1 views

www.visualthesaurus.com/

nonlinguistic literacy

shared by Sarah Gorres on 15 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Sarah Gorres on 15 Apr 11
     
    Looking for a synonym to jazz up a piece of writing? You, and students, can use visual thesaurus to find that word. The "visual" part of this online thesaurus stems from the web of words that results from a search. For example, if I was looking for a synonym for cool, I'd type the word in the search bar, and a web would be created with "cool" in the center. Stemming off the center is a color coded assortment of alternatives for "cool", and the colors are based on the meaning of "cool". What a fast and fun way to search for words!
  • Sue Isakson-Bauer on 17 Apr 11
     
    What I really enjoyed about this website was the opportunity for incidental learning -- unexpected learning on the way. As I child, I always enjoyed the encyclopedia. As I paged to my favorite section "dogs" I would find other articles I never would searched before. With this visual thesaurus, the user can search for one word and find herself learning others.
Laura Kruschek

vimeo - 0 views

vimeo.com

video light writing

shared by Laura Kruschek on 08 Mar 11 - Cached
Jodie Nowakowski

Read Write Think - 0 views

www.readwritethink.org/...g-classroom-newspaper-249.html

Lesson Plans English Newspaper NCTE

shared by Jodie Nowakowski on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Jodie Nowakowski on 15 Mar 11
     
    Great resource for English/LA lesson plans by the NCTE
David Buehler

Teacher Strategies - 2 views

www.lauracandler.com

Assessment

shared by David Buehler on 22 Mar 11 - Cached
  • David Buehler on 22 Mar 11
     
    This website has many different strategies for lessons (including assessing students) in the elementary grades.
  • Greg Vandehey on 23 Mar 11
     
    This is a site with many useful resources. Some of the resources are in PDF format and well designed. For example, a form for students to write a current event article is perfect for upper elementary and middle school students. I will use this in situations when students are absent on the day of our weekly NewsGame. The site is well designed and has a real teacher-friendly feel to it.
Laura Kruschek

Primary Access - 0 views

www.primaryaccess.org/

apply review practice

shared by Laura Kruschek on 18 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Laura Kruschek on 18 Apr 11
     
    "PrimaryAccess was designed for use in K-12 classrooms to aid in teaching content knowledge, critical thinking skills and even writing or storytelling skills. Teachers can set up and manage class activities and materials with ease using TeacherTools. Students then access the activities using MovieMaker and StoryBoard." This a great site to help students understand primary sources and their importance. This primary source website is an awesome tool for students to apply their knowledge on different topics and also expand that knowledge through the use of primary sources.
Greg Vandehey

Write Design Online - 1 views

www.writedesignonline.com/organizers

Organizers

shared by Greg Vandehey on 07 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Greg Vandehey on 07 Apr 11
     
    This site provides a variety of graphic organizers and also gives useful information to students and teachers for organizing information.
Sarah Gorres

Professor Garfield - Make a Comic Strip - 0 views

www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_home.html

writing comics nonlinguistic

shared by Sarah Gorres on 07 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Sarah Gorres on 07 Apr 11
     
    A fun site where kids can create their own Garfield comic strip
  • Sue Isakson-Bauer on 09 Apr 11
     
    I like that this website has a tutorial.
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