Literacy

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Writing - activities and links to try

Reading - activities and links

Reading Comprehension Strategies

Listening to Reading - access to school journal stories as audio files. These can be purchased by your school

The Road to grammar - quizzes, games and extra practice, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions etc

Super Similes

Sentence Unscramble

The Hunger Games - Follow one class's responses to The Hunger Games

[|Smories]- Stories read by kids for kids
== [|Scribble Press]  - ebooks for kids by kids ==

Junior Literacy - Ideas for using in your junior class (includes online stories)
Character Scapbook - describe a charcter you have read about in a book

The Cube Creator

[|Reading and Understanding] - links to support your literacy programme

[|My Word Playground] - a blog written by authors, has lots of tips and tricks

[|Twurdy] - search for information and get a reading difficulty level

[|Word of the Day] - a new word every day with pronunciation, meaning, etymology and usage

[|NZ ESL]- Listen to New Zealand news, spoken slowly and clearly, using easy vocabulary.

iSites for Juniors

<span style="color: #1f0dc9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|10 Sites for Digital Storytelling]

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> Reading - activities and links to try

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Punctuation - Room 1's punctuation page on their wiki. Check out the rest of the wiki while you are there.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Adjectives -

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">[|Interactive Language Arts / Reading Skill Builders] - Parts of speech, antonyms, capital letters and more <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Reading includes - author's purpose, cause and effect, compare and contrast

<span style="color: #1f0dc9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|Writing] - Article <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #464646; font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 14px;">Children who use technology are 'better writers'

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<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #464646; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 14px;">Try this for fun - [|aphabet boggle] - roll the letters ======

Interactive Literacy Presentations - Ideas, links, resources to add into your literacy programmes

Oral Language - Audio

[|Oral Language] - Raising student achievement in oral language = Using ICTs to enhance oral language

[|Help for Dyslexic students] - <span style="color: #82aa33; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">**Single-Click Grammar Checker!**

Practise your Conjunctions - check out these interactive sites for conjunctions

Proofreading - try these interactive resources

<span style="color: #82aa33; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">**Shared Reading - activities to generate reading** Literacy Tools
 * [[image:Screen_shot_2010-10-28_at_1.49.32_PM.png link="Animations"]]

Animations ||

Beautiful Word Clouds || Comics in the Classroom || Avatars Create your own characters. Describe your character and create a story around them. || Story Makers Use these sites to create your own stories || Visual Images Taking photos with students, where to find images and what to do with them collages, editing and more || Frameworks for Writing and Reading ||
 * [[image:Wild_self.png width="169" height="174" link="Avatars"]]
 * [[image:Screen_shot_2010-10-28_at_5.23.21_PM.png link="Graphic Organisers"]]

See what students are learning with Comic Life ||

[|Literacy resources]- interactive, grammar, writing, reading, spelling rules and more

[|Teaching with picture books] - <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">For those wondering, "Are picture books for me?" I've provided thirteen reasons why you should be using picture books almost daily. In fact, you'll discover that the same picture book can be revisited many times for many purposes.

[|Business Cards] - for your fictional characters [|Lego and Literacy]Part 2 and[| Part 1] - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22px;">But LEGO is just a toy, right? What does LEGO have to do with Literacy?[| Ideas here]

[|Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency] - Questions, strategies, assessment and resources

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Tate Movie Project] - <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Using this web site the children get to help write a script, record and play with sound, make animations and watch the movie clips. Very motivating for groups of children who may be reluctant at other times.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">[|Literature Circles] - <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">"In literature circles, small groups of students gather together to discuss a piece of literature in depth. The discussion is guided by students' response to what they have read. You may hear talk about events and characters in the book, the author's craft, or personal experiences related to the story."

[|Visuwords] - Online Graphic Dictionary [|Idiom Dictionary] - [|10 Best Online Rhyming Dictionaries] -

[|Writing Workshop] - Getting to know students as writers

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Punctuation Pyramid] - When should I use this?

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[|Punctuation] -

[|English Online] - What do students need to learn? What do you need to know and do? Join the mailing list and interact with other teachers

Writing - examples of how other teachers are sharing writing in their class

Digital Literacy - Resources ................... || Phonics - interactive activities .......................... ||
 * Spelling - interactive resources ........[[image:spelling.gif]]................ || Vocabulary Resources - rhyming words, homophones .....
 * Critical Thinking [[image:questns.gif width="99" height="84"]] || Grammar - interactive resources [[image:rwskill.gif]] || Poetry Resources [[image:poem.png width="165" height="77"]] ||

==Book Trailers - **__//Previews://__ Looking for a good book, but not sure what to read next? See the newest book trailers now.** ==

[|31 Favourite Digital Storytelling Sites] - Some are already mentioned, others are new. Find out which ones suit your purpose

[|Write a book review. Read a book review] - Have you ever read a book that was so amazing you told all your friends "you've GOT to read this!"

[|Book review workshop] - <span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Welcome to my workshop! Here you'll find writing tips, strategies, and challenges to help you write a book review <span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> [|Video Clips on Book Reviews] -

<span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> [|Spaghetti Book Club] - Book reviews by kids for kids

Reading Online - <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Need websites to read online? Use these resources to get your kids reading on the computer!

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> [|Handy Word Lists] - A handy little website with lists of words that could be used for writing

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> [|The Worst Zoo in the World] - A Guided Reading Lesson with Before and After discussion ideas

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> [|Readers Theatre] - Scripts that are great for fluency practice

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> [|Graphic Organisers for Storytelling] -

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> [|Reading Games] - sight words, sequencing, syllables, rhyming, synonyms and antonyms and more

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> [|Reading Online] - Choose a story and hear it read by a member of the screen actors guild

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> [|iBoard Literacy Activities] - select your setting and use as interactive writing with a data projector

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> [|Parts of speech] - <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Choose which type of figurative language describes each sentence to hit the ball and score a run for your team!

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> [|Parts of Speech] - <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica,'Sans Serif'; line-height: 19px;">There are eight basic parts of speech and every word will fall into one of these categories. Some words can actually be classified as being in more than one part of speech depending on how it is used at the time.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> [|Spelling Connections] - Spelling and Thinking, reading and writing / proof reading

[|British Council] – Fairy tales and traditional stories [|Aesop’s Fables] – A collection of fables to read [|Kids Gen] – Fables, fairy tales and other short stories

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> [|Developing Readers' Comprehension Strategies] - <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">//Students need to develop a repertoire of strategies that they can select from purposefully and independently to build and enhance their understanding of text and to extend their critical awareness.//

<span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> //[|The New Readers] - From The New York Times. Some researchers believe that online reading builds on traditional reading skills and also requires new ones, like the ability to navigate the web and to synthesize information in many forms.//

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> //[|Book Adventures] -// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"> Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles and take multiple choice quizzes

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"> [|Tech Tools for the English Classroom] - Web 2 Literacy tools to add to your wiki or blog

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"> [|Prefixes and Suffixes] - Interactive - match the prefixes and suffixes to make a word

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"> [|Create quick Interactive Activities] - <span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'tahoma Trebuchet MS',lucida,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">The first step is to grab a text you want to use with your students. Read [|Nik's Quick Shout,] a blog post, for an idea of how to work the avtivity

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'tahoma Trebuchet MS',lucida,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> [|Enchanted Palace] - Find out about Kensington palace

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'tahoma Trebuchet MS',lucida,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> Made To Stick - A reading programme that makes ideas stick - ideas that are understood, remembered and have a lasting impact. Read the Teachers Guide and explore resources

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[|Ask Kids!] – Students can research information by asking questions [|KidRex] – Safe Internet search for kids, by kids [|Raz-Kids!] – Interactive eBooks For Students [|StarFall Reading Pactice] – A Fun Way to Practice Reading Online [|Fact Monster Writing] – A resource page to help with all kinds of writing [|My StoryMaker] – Create your own story online //Mad Libs and Wacky Story Writing// [|Wacky Web Tales] – Write your own wacky story [|FunBrain Mad Libs] – Write your own mad lib online //Writing Prompts// [|The NOUN Game] – Choose interesting Nouns to practice your writing [|The VERB Game] – Choose interesting Verbs to practice your writing [|The ADJECTIVE Game] – Choose interesting Adjectives to practice your writing //A Newspaper Article// [|Be A Reporter] – Online template to write a newspaper article //Vocabulary// [|Similar and Opposite] – Match words with like meanings //Grammar// [|Grammar Ninja] – A game to practice identifying Parts of Speech [|Punctuation Paintball!] – Learn about punctuation and have fun! [|Pronouns] – Collect personal pronouns on your pirate ship //Spelling// [|Spelling City] – A fun way to learn how to spell your own spelling words! [|Look Cover Write and Check] – Interactive spelling game
 * Student Internet Search Engines**
 * Reading**
 * Writing**

[|Spellbound] – Practice spelling words against the clock