The Starving Time - Discovery
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
YWREADS Games!!
Starfall
Photograb
Word Ahead
Make-A-Word
Word Family Sort - ReadWriteThink
ABC Match - A classic 'Memory' game wherein students match pictures with their beginning letter sounds. Pretty basic, but would be great for young students who need work on that skill.
Acrostic Maker - This might be a fun one for older kids, though I think it might require a lot of guidance even for them.
Comic Creator - This one is very cool as well. Choose how many panels, insert different characters, props, and word bubble. Might take a little longer than 10 minutes, but could be worth a try.
Photograb
Word Ahead
Make-A-Word
Word Family Sort - ReadWriteThink
ABC Match - A classic 'Memory' game wherein students match pictures with their beginning letter sounds. Pretty basic, but would be great for young students who need work on that skill.
Acrostic Maker - This might be a fun one for older kids, though I think it might require a lot of guidance even for them.
Comic Creator - This one is very cool as well. Choose how many panels, insert different characters, props, and word bubble. Might take a little longer than 10 minutes, but could be worth a try.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Online Literacy Resources/Games for YWREADS
Starfall - An assortment of reading/sound games. Good stuff, and the kids know and enjoy them.
Photograb Games - I made these myself and could make more. I tried it out on a few kids and they like it OK. I think I could design them so that they enjoy them a bit more.
Word Ahead Vocabulary Videos - A bit advanced for most of our kids, but it can't hurt.
Construct A Word - This is something all of our students could benefit from. It's a simple onset-rime game; the player joins the first consonant of a syllable (onset) with the ending (rime). Pretty fun, too!
Storyline Online - Celebrities read great children's books. Awesome and free! (Update: And it doesn't seem to work. Grrrr. I will write to Brad about this one, becuase it is seriously awesome. Let me know if it works for you.)
Kindersite - This is a massive listing of kid-safe online games. I will go through this later this week and pull out some good ones. (Update: Finding out that a lot of these links don't work. I'll sift through them.)
Photograb Games - I made these myself and could make more. I tried it out on a few kids and they like it OK. I think I could design them so that they enjoy them a bit more.
Word Ahead Vocabulary Videos - A bit advanced for most of our kids, but it can't hurt.
Construct A Word - This is something all of our students could benefit from. It's a simple onset-rime game; the player joins the first consonant of a syllable (onset) with the ending (rime). Pretty fun, too!
Storyline Online - Celebrities read great children's books. Awesome and free! (Update: And it doesn't seem to work. Grrrr. I will write to Brad about this one, becuase it is seriously awesome. Let me know if it works for you.)
Kindersite - This is a massive listing of kid-safe online games. I will go through this later this week and pull out some good ones. (Update: Finding out that a lot of these links don't work. I'll sift through them.)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
I Hope You Comprehend: LL Presentation #3
The Word Has Changed:
"What's unsurprising today would have seemed preposterous just fifteen years ago: an English-speaking thirteen-year-old in Zaire who's connected to the Internet can find the current temperature in Brussels or the closing price of IBM stock or the name of Winston Churchill's second finance minister as quickly and easily as the head librarian at Cambridge University. That's glorious. But it has enormous consequences for how we work and live. When facts become so widely available and instantly accessible, each one becomes less valuable. What begins to matter more is the ability to place these facts in context and to deliver them with emotional impact" Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind
Comprehension is Key
Comprehension Strategies for Any Classroom
KWL - The Zebra Storyteller
Know
-Brainstorming with Wordle
- Previewing With Wordle
Want to Know
-Predictions
Learn
-Reenactments
-Predictions
-Review
The Teacher's Job
Conscious ->->->->Unconscious
Importance of Reading Aloud
Other Word Cloud Resources
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Stories in Math and Science
The Brain as a Storyteller
Every Test is a Reading Test
Each Student's Story
Online Literacy Resources
Wordle
Curriki.org
Blogs
Twitter
A Small Favor
- Magnitude (Dictionary - Etymology)
- The Richter Scale (Traditional Way of Learning) (Wordle of Text)
- Subtraction Poem
"What's unsurprising today would have seemed preposterous just fifteen years ago: an English-speaking thirteen-year-old in Zaire who's connected to the Internet can find the current tempeerature in Brussels or the closing price of IBM stock or the name of Winston Churchill's second finance minister as quickly and easily as the head librarian at Cambridge University. That's glorious. But it has enormous consequences for how we work and live. When facts become so widely available and instantly accessible, each one becomes less valuable. What begins to matter more is the ability to place these facts in context and to deliver them with emotional impact" Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind
Every Test is a Reading Test
Each Student's Story
Online Literacy Resources
Wordle
- Brainstorm (Ways to get 5)
- Difficult Text (High School Physics or Mary Cartwright)
Curriki.org
Blogs
A Small Favor
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