Archive for the 'Language Arts' Category
Photo Prompts is a site that can be used to support creative writing. The site offers many different writing starters that include a picture and a writing prompt. These can be used or altered to use with students of all ages, and in different subject areas. If you click on the “i” icon on the […]
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Printing Press offers interactive, online templates for creating newspapers, flyers and brochures. Printing Press is part of the many wonderful offerings available on the ReadWriteThink website. It’s user-friendly interface allows students to choose from several templates, then add images and text. Another nice thing about this site is that it allows students to save their […]
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Teaching Kids News is a site created by a mom and her son’s teacher to help elementary aged students access and understand the news. The articles/stories on the site, written in kid-friendly language, are designed for students in grades 2-8. Each day a new article is added that relates to some news story of the […]
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My StoryMaker is an interactive site maintained by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh designed to help students write stories. The site allows students to pick characters, a setting and other objects for their story. They even offer hints for what to write about. Once the story is complete, the story can be printed. My StoryMaker […]
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Aesop’s Fables Interactive Book is an interactive book of over 140 of Aesop’s Fables that can be accessed through a web browser or through an iPad and Android app. The collection of fables is made available through the Library of Congress and is adapted from “The Aesop for Children: with Pictures by Milo Winter,” published […]
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Telescopic Text is an interactive website designed to help students expand on their ideas, create a structure, and add more detail to their writing. The best way to learn how to use this very clever tool is to look at their example which you can access from the “Texts” link on the top of the […]
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Text 2 Mind Map is an easy-to-use tool for converting an outline into a mind map. Students type in their outlines right on the site. After the outline has been created, they click on the “Draw Mind Map” button, and the outline is presented on the screen in mind map format. The map can then […]
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Four Reads: Learning to Read Primary Documents is a post on the teachinghistory.org website that outlines a four-step process for guiding students in reading primary documents. With all the emphasis on using primary documents to help students better understand historical concepts, it’s nice to have a post like this that clearly describes how to help […]
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Share My Lesson is a site created by the AFT and the TES (a worldwide network of teachers). The site allows you to use its over 200,000 lesson plans and other teaching resources at no cost (free registration is required to download lessons). It also allows you to upload lessons that you have created and […]
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Differentiation Meets Digital Technology is a blog post on the Literacy Beat blog that I just recently started to follow. Literacy Beat is a blog written by five teachers and researchers in the field of digital literacy. What I like about this particular post is how it uses the UBD model to plan for differentiation […]
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