Web sites mentioned in class!
Medina County Schools Academic Content Standards Forms are available to download in pdf or Excel 2000 format
Publisher of lot of neat resources: Greatsource Books on sentence combining, Writer's Ink, Daily Oral Language, etc.
Reading Quest 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.
Deliberations, an academic challenge teaching strategy.
CAST: Teaching every student: Image Collector.
National Council Teachers of English
Read Write Think--What would you like to create?
Media Literacy Resources:
Web site evaluation checksheet
Webquests: Matrix of Examples
Channel One : Very interactive site--updated weekly. There is a section on sports--Baseball Lingo
SOME BOOK TITLES MENTIONED IN CLASS THAT THE LIBRARY HAS:
Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Frasier.. When Sage's spelling and definiton of a word reveal her misunderstainding of it to her classmates, she is at first embarassed, but then uses her mistake as inspiration for the vocabulary parade. (E FRA)
More Parts by Tedd Arnold. A young boy is worried about what will happen to his body when he hears such expressions as " give him a hand.." "laugh your head off," and "hold your tongue: and others. (PB E ARN)
Graphic Novels Some example of titles include:
The Demon of River Heights
Nancy Drew graphic novel volume 1
Stefan Petrucha & Sho Murase
The Ocean of Osyria
The Hardy Boys graphic novel volume 1
Scott Lobdell & Lea Hernandez
OTHER SITES OF INTEREST
Writing Contest Baker & Taylor contest featuring Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Fever 1793
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