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A very useful tool that can provide some immediate relief for teachers and students struggling to create writing products.

A very useful tool that can provide some immediate relief for teachers and students struggling to create writing products.

"The elementary ITRTs threw togehter this Literacy Training Blog that contains information you could use at your convenience. Here are some other great ideas that they came up with that can be used at any grade level."

News service that provides articles at 5 different reading levels.

"Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online reading comprehension and vocabulary development software. It helps people understand difficult English faster, helps them learn words in new ways, and helps teachers create high-interest learning materials from any English text passage."

"Dr. Marzano describes a six-step process in the instruction of vocabulary (Building Academic Vocabulary).  The first three steps are to assist the teacher in direct instruction.  The last three steps are to provide the learner practice and reinforcement."

"ReadingQuest is designed to provide you with the philosophical bases for sound comprehension strategy instruction, directions for a range of comprehension and content reading strategies, and printable handouts and masters for transparencies. You will be invited to think about how a social studies skills framework might help you choose the right strategies for your lessons."

Bloom's Taxonommy applied to digital tools -- useful and thought-provoking.