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Now that you've looked at a variety of resources on the web, please tell us which one of the resources seemed most useful to you. What features make it a resource or tool you'd like to share with others.
posted by Pat @ 4:31 PM
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Objective: to help students (engage) establish their own reading strategies. Found an outrageous site under NCTE -- Read*Write*Think. It provided inspiring ideas that would motivate our students (as well as some of our teachers) to read! Some ideas included a character resume and summer reading persuasive propaganda. This site addressed our content and standards. It is a great resource for teachers - providing unique lesson plans. The only downside is that the site is teacher-oriented and not necessarily for student use. Though not conducive to student use, it will be highly useful to teachers in keeping students actively engaged...and we only have one working computer in a classroom anyway ;)
The most exciting site was the writingfix.com! The plethera of ideas definitely hits upon all of our ELA standards. I could see using this in the libray with my students partnered up or by working closely with the librarian and utilizing all of the computers in the library so that every student has a structured sequence of "clicking" .... to meet the needs of my assigned task. I'd have to play around with this site more intensely and have a more specific writing goal in mind. Depending upon the task chosen, higher level thinking skills may or may not play a part in my activity. But the site is not limited in terms of activities which address higher order thinking skills!
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We found a site "J. Murrey Atkins Library" that had womethingg that addresses the content and standard that we were looking for. It was a site with a list of many books for elementary students. Each book had activities that were all standards based and fitted the needs of our students. The activities required higher order thinking skills and were high interest as well as across the curriculum.
Children's Literature Web Guide is a great resource for elementary teachers. I found that it addressed several of our first grade standards. For example, helping students to identify authors and illustrators. I could readily implement this site into my classroom when introducing our "Author's of the Month." It will help my students to identify more than one way to learn about the life of an author. Lastly, I found that I could use it as one way to incorporate high order thinking into my first grade classroom, by allowing students to compare and contrast stories written by the same author.
Content Standard: writing for a variety of purposes and audiences
Tool: Writing Fix
Students will use the computers in the library and will identify the setting, character and conflict/problem as generated on the website. Students have already identified a character from a previous Writer's Workshop activity.
Writing Fix takes advantage of the Internet, because the word processing link affixed to the site is easily understood. Students can also e-mail the story directly to the teacher and include various emoticons within it.
Additionally, the novelty of using the website motivates the students.
Higher order thinking skills are enhanced because the students are creating their own character and story. Additionally, students will be asked to evaluate the process and their product using Surveymonkey.com.
in meeting the content standards of Langauge Arts for struggling readers, we struggled! We finally located lessons in the IRA web site/ Read/Write/Think something... Anyway, lessons were found that could readily be used in a classroom, and even carried into the home.
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The website on the first comment was:
http://www.readwritethink.org/
I found writingfix.com to be very useful. I teach High School students who are on many different reading levels. This site allows individuals to practice what component of writing is most difficult to them. This site also offers games (hangman, word searches) for a fun break from the textbook.
I also found many high interest books for young adults on ReadWriteThink.com.
The website I think will be most useful in my classes is WritingFix.com. This site offers so many interesting writing prompts. I especially like the Writing Prompt Generator and the Random Scenario Generator.
The sight is www.writingfix.com. This had many areas that could be useful with writing - from gathering ideas through publishing. I really need more time to check out all of the options, but- I liked the "interactive instant plot". Students who are struggling with ideas to get started can use this to set some INTERESTING settings, characters and the conflict.
Read, Write and Think is helpful when you want additional information on an author. I was looking for Maya Angelou since we are currently reading "Brother", an excerpt from I Know Why the Caged Bird sings. The information went on and on - biographical, additional works, etc.
We found the WritingFix.com website and found many things to help students in our classes. There were story starters, progressive stories. There were resources to assist students in jumpstarting their creativity. Games were available to supplement instruction.
Objective: To find a phonemic awareness game appropriate for my Kindergarten low-level thinkers.
Findings: We found a few great websites that cater to my low-level thinkers. Not only do they touch on the basic beginning sounds, but they are easy to use and the pictures that coincide are easily related to the words (not vague like many others). These phonemic games match the standards adapted for Kindergarten.
These games can be found in the Read-Write-Think (K-3 Strand- Learning Language). The site is called "Billy Bear's Alphabet Games."
In meeting the content standards of Langauge Arts for struggling readers, the IRA section of lessons on the web site/ Read/Write/Think was most useful. Literature titles were found that could readily be used in a classroom, and even carried into the home. Students were challenged with higher order thinking skills through a comprehensive list of lessons that could be adapted to different grade levels. There is a wealth of information and innovative ideas that all teachers and students could use in any classroom lesson.
In meeting the content standards of Langauge Arts for struggling readers, the IRA section of lessons on the web site/ Read/Write/Think was most useful. Literature titles were found that could readily be used in a classroom, and even carried into the home. Students were challenged with higher order thinking skills through a comprehensive list of lessons that could be adapted to different grade levels. There is a wealth of information and innovative ideas that all teachers and students could use in any classroom lesson.
The Children's Literature Web Guide would help us to address the content and standards we are focusing on for reading K-2nd. Yes, one can readily use this site in one's classroom. It provides a way to learn about authors. Children can write to an author or take an author's quiz on a particular book. It allows you to do alot of research on authors relatively quickly. Yes, students are using higher level thinking skills. For example, after reading a particular book and having a group book discussion, students can go to this site and post their evaluations of the book.
The web site "The Writing Fix" is an excellent teacher resource for writing including 6 plus 1 traits. It definitely meets state standards and I have discovered it at a timely moment as I will be presenting a workshop to my staff this Wed. on 6 plus 1. The site offers information for teachers and students and includes games that target specific student needs in the area of writing development.
I visited the Read.Write and Think site. I found it to be very useful especially because you could specify not just concepts/skills but go to specific grade level. The list of lessons was "endless"! You can pick and choose what is valuable to your needs and there was even a "home/school connection with the lessons.
I thoroughly enjoyed todays presentation! I can walk away today with something I can use! I'll definitely share some of the ideas with my peers!
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