ADOLESCENT LITERACY CLASS

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?

NW Regional Assessment Guide

Reading is Fundamental!

Rubrics for Teachers

Rubrics

Language Arts website

Media Literacy Resources:

Web site evaluation checksheet

Jo Cool Jo Fool

Webquests:  Matrix of Examples

Friends

Channel One :  Very interactive site--updated weekly.  There is a section on sports--Baseball Lingo

Center for Media Literacy

 

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

Poetry Handbook

 

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