Category Archives: Literacy
Embedding HTML Content in Google Earth
One of my favorite teaching tools is the topic of today’s free webinar: Google Earth. We have produced three webinars about using Google Earth in the Classroom. The latest version of Google Earth lets teachers insert links, images, and videos via HTML into the “Comments” section when a place-marker, polygon, overlay, or line is created.… Read more
Posted in Classroom Tools, Cross Curricular, Literacy, Social Studies, Tips, Video
Tagged Google Earth, Google Lit Trips, YouTube
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Promote Literacy with Skratch Publishing
Skratch Publishing is a site that seeks to promote literacy for children. Best of all, it’s completely free for teachers and students.
Skratch is an engaging interactive site where students can add the books they have read and complete a short book report. The book report prompts students to identify favorite characters, new vocabulary, their … Read more
The Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project
As educators begin to implement the Common Core Standards, many have expressed a need to have additional resources that will help with the process and provide models to use.
The Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project provides educators with high-quality, low-cost curriculum tools based on the Common Core State Standards. There are 76 detailed … Read more
Posted in Common Core, ELA, Literacy, Math, Tips
Tagged Common Core Standards, The Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project
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Create Your Own Books with Storybird
The Common Core Standards for Writing encourage our students to “Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.” Storybird allows students and teachers to create digital books based on artwork. You can create a free account, a teacher with class account, or a free child account … Read more
Posted in Classroom Tools, Common Core, ELA, Literacy, Social Classroom
Tagged Common Core Standards, Digital Storytelling, Interactive Lessons, Storybird
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Teq Course: Writers Workshop Done Digitally
In this course, designed for elementary school teachers, we will look at how to use a SMART Board and other technology to facilitate writers workshop in your classroom. During the session we will explore and create interactive mini lessons, look at easy to use observation sheets that track the progress of students (either to be … Read more
Posted in ELA, Events, Lesson Plans, Literacy, Notebook, Technology
Tagged document cameras., iPads, Professional Development, SMART Notebook, Staff development, writers workshop
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Shakespeare’s Birthday
April 23 is the birthday of the bard himself, William Shakespeare. Are you looking for ways to incorporate a celebration of his birthday into your classroom activities? Look no further than ReadWriteThink.
This site has activities for the classroom, lesson plans and helpful websites for all grade levels. Grab your birthday hats and celebrate … Read more
Posted in ELA, Literacy
Tagged Interactive Lessons, ReadWriteThink, SMART Board Resources
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Grok Your Research
Our students become more proficient in content area knowledge through the development of research skills. One tool that helps students to find, explore, take notes and organize information from a search is InstaGrok. By creating a teacher account, you’ll be able to choose a class code that your students can use for their own … Read more
New York Times Learning Network
On Monday and Wednesday, we took a look at two sites that support students’ access to resources for informational text. Today, we’re taking a look at another site for teachers to consider: the New York Times Learning Network. While the materials are based on content from that specific newspaper, the same instructional ideas … Read more
Posted in ELA, Literacy
Tagged Common Core Standards, Informational Text, Learning Network, New York Times
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Curiosity…
In Monday’s blog post, we took a look at Wonderopolis in connection with the Common Core Standards and the use of informational text in instruction. For those who are working with students at the high school level, and already dealing with informational text on a daily basis, you might also consider Discovery Channel’s Curiosity.com… Read more
Posted in ELA, Literacy
Tagged Common Core Standards, Curiosity.com, Discovery Channel, Interactive Lessons
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It’s a Wonder!
Wonderopolis is a great site, not only to provide students with non-fiction content, but to help build background knowledge and connections to other learning. Each day, a “wonder” is published containing these three sections:
- A related video
- Questions to focus students’ reading
- The article
Classroom Use
The Common Core Standards address the need to include informational … Read more
