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"LIBRARIANS AND TEACHERS AS INSTRUCTIONAL PARTNERS: WRITTEN CONVERSATIONS WITH WRITE AROUNDS TEXT ON TEXT FOR INQUIRY, PARTICIPATION, AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF MEANINGS"

With Disput Finder installed (see steps to the right right) you can be instantly notified if the information you are reading has another side, is disputed in some way by somebody or source of authority - and if the questionable text has been identified a

Tool for adding text, video or images to spots on an image.

Some key goals for literacy are reading comprehension, being able to identify main ideas, and summarization skills. There are many excellent practices that can help students develop these abilities. Recently I came across a creative technique called " Text Reduction Strategy" ( see the article here by Andrea Heick at TeachThought).

Online sites for reading materials (Newsla, Cirriculet, ThinkCERCA, Youngzine)