Website+Sharing+Page

Fall 2008 – Reading 780 Website Sharing Page

Week 1 – Elizabeth Alderton NCTE – read write think http://www.ncte.org/profdev/online/rwt This website is a partnership between the IRA, NCTE and the MarcoPolo Foundation that has good research, lesson ideas, and other resources.

Week 2 - Melanie Sickinger

Interactive Reading Sites http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interactive.htm

Check out this fantastic cross-curricular website collection that you can use in your classroom for both instructional ideas/lesson plans or as interactive activities to use on a Smartboard or computer lab with your students. Make the learning come alive!

Week 3 - Nadine Mathu Vocabulary Building Site

[|http://freerice.com] This is a not-for-profit site designed to help users test and enhance their vocabulary and other academic skills while providing humanitarian aid to underdeveloped countries. Questions adjust according to students' correct or incorrect responses in order to provide increasingly challenging levels. Sponsors donate rice/foodstuffs to the needy in developing countries through the UN World Food Program for correct responses. One caution: it is addicting!

Week 4 - Jennifer Schoonover

Just One More Book

JustOneMoreBook.com Featured in the October issue of Family Fun magazine, this website is great for parents and teachers. With sound recordings of a local coffeehouse in the background, Andrea Ross and Mark Blevis discuss a varios of children's books their family loves. They then post the recordings on their site. The reviews are sorted by author, subject, and title so you can find exactly what you're looking for. The site also includes interviews with authors, illustrators, and literacy experts. My favorite part is the listener-submitted reviews! What a great way to discover new books you can use in your classroom and/or suggest to students in your classroom.

Week 5- Sarah Warren Teaching Books site

[|www.teachingbooks.net] This is a website that allows you to meet authors online, hear audio excerpts on books, view book discussions, etc. This is a fantastic website to use as a resource when when planning lessons around a certain theme or book.

Week 12 - Amanda Benson (I know it's early!!!) readwritethink.org This website was created throughthe International Reading Association. This website offers the usual lessons, standards, and web resources. The two features that I would like to highlight on this website are the student materials and the beyond the classroom features. --The student materials section features interactive games or features that the students can use online. Some of the highlights are: comic creator, construct a word, abc match, a touch of class, letter generator, and a place to create or do a crossword puzzle. Under the link for the interactive feature includes ideas and lesson plans to utilize each interactive piece.--In beyond the classroom, there are four additional links: literacy activities, booklists, podcasts, and tool tip sheets for grades k-12 broken down into four different grade categories. The activities are neat, and will catch the attention of students at any age. Be sure to click under the "view more" for each category. One of the neat ones that I found was to take a virtual fieldtrip and watch animals over a live-internet cams. Again, each category has many activity ideas to go along with each entry. This could be a great resource to present to parents as a way to incorporate some fun activities in the summer, but still get some learning done!

Week 6-Nikki Nelson
 * [|http://www.titlewave.com**]

This web site helps you find out the literacy levels of books for your classroom and find out books based on literacy levels you are interested in. You are also able to purchase materials from this site. E-Books, ability to search for accelerated reader quizzes, and lists of books that support specific state and national curriculums is also avaliable.

Week 7- Jacque Smedberg [|http://www.windows.ucar.edu/] This website is called Windows to the Universe. It is a place to find information/articles for students on different topics. There are three different levels for each of the articles beginner, intermediate, and advanced. There is also a place for an online journal. Check it out....there is a lot available.

Week 8- Abbi Wills Phillips [|http://www.murray.k12.ga.us/teacher/kara%20leonard/Mini%20T's/March%20Mini%20T-Games/Games.htm] This website has power point templates for many popular game shows. You download the template and then manipulate it to include your own questions and answers. It's awesome for reviewing before a test! The site also has some pre-made games and activities for students to work on or to try with your class.

Week 9- Mara Nelson http://www.fcrr.org/forTeachers.htm Florida Center for Reading Research- this website provides information about literacy instruction and assessment in grades K-12, along with tons of neat activities for various grade levels. FCRR allows teachers to search for specific activities to use in their classrooms. Some exmples of activities available focus on fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, and phonics instruction. There are sections for administrators, parents, coaches, and researchers as well. Some of the links and information available are literacy based articles, frequently asked questions, and suggested resources. I personally like the student centered activities because there are a lot neat ideas with printable pages that go along with them!

Week 10- Jenny Hengel

http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/student_index.cfm This is an AWESOME website put on by **Discovery Education.** It is beneficial to both students and staff as it provides engaging digital resources to schools and homes. The goal of the website is to enhance education by creating/making connections to the 'real world'. Thereby increasing student achievement, and connecting classrooms and families to a world of learning.

Week 10-Seth Breunig http://www.nytimes.com/learning/ This is an education site created by The New York Times. It provides not only ideas on how to incorporate news and current events into the classroom (and how to use newspapers specifically), but also lesson plans and learning ideas for every subject. Most impressively, though, is the way in which it links the lesson plans to articles which have been published in The New York Times. They also provide a nice link to The New York Times educational coverage, providing information which we as teachers will find relevant to our own lives. One other interesting feature the site provides is a daily question meant to help students study for tests like the ACT or SAT.

Week 11 - Kim Trent [|http://www.interventioncentral.com] This is a website based on RTI. There is information about RTI in addition to links for additional information, how to implement it, and how other schools are implementing it. There is a TON of links for research based interventions for math, reading, and behavior management. For behaviors, there are templates to create charts for teachers, parents, and students to monitor behavior. Lots and lots of ideas!!

Week 12 - Julie Lardinois http://www.multiculturalchildrenslit.com This is a great website to find multicultural books. It categorizes books into different cultures. Then when you click on a culture, it categorizes books into realistic fiction, non-fiction, traditional, biography, historical fiction, poetry, and fantasy. Each book has information about what the book is about and approximate grade levels for the book. There is also a spot to click on related websites about a culture. Not all the websites are up to date though. Sharing these books through a read aloud is another way to expose students to different cultures.