Strategies to Help Students Enhance Literacy

Reading, Writing, and Organizer Sites

 
Read Write and Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Wisconsin Literacy Education and Reading Network Source
http://wilearns.state.wi.us/apps/default.asp
Strategies for Comprehending Reading
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/strat/
Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking
http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Tools/Index.htm
Scaffolding with Graphic Organizers
http://www.richlandclicks.org/Teacher/presentations/scaffolding/mainpage.htm
Learning Resources: Graphic Organizers
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic73.htm
Scaffolding Information Acquisition
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss98/scaffolding-ia.htm
Scaffolding Bernie Dodge
    Reception
    Tranformation
    Production
Education World: Teacher Tools and Templates
http://www.education-world.com/tools_templates/index.shtml
Online Thesis Builder
http://www.ozline.com/electraguide/thesis.html
Reading and Writing Across Content Areas
http://www.literacymatters.org/content/readandwrite/intro.htm
English and Spanish Graphic Organizers
http://www.region15.org/curriculum/graphicorg.html

Inspiration/Kidspiration Examples

 
Scaffolding Information Acquisition
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss98/scaffolding-ia.htm
50 Uses for Inspiration and Kidspiration
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/conceptmap/50uses.html
Teacher Created Inspiration Projects
http://www.spart5.k12.sc.us/TechTraining/InspirationMatrix.htm
Teachers Using Inspiration
http://www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/Inspiration/Inspir.htm
Kidspiration Templates to Download
http://www.globalclassroom.org/together/kidspiration.html
Pair-It Books
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/highlandes/agraywww/pairitbooks.html

Workshop Activities

Power Thinking Activity

Eating Healthy
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/strat/pto.html
Vocabulary Activity
Vocabulary Development
Word Central
http://www.wordcentral.com/
Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/
Thesaurus.com
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
Visual Thesaurus
http://www.thinkmap.com/visualthesaurus.jsp

Highlighting Activity

http://wilearns.state.wi.us/apps/Default.asp?cid=783

QAR Activity
http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/QAR.htm
QAR PowerPoint Example

 
What are 21st Century Skills? Compare and Contrast
http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/21stcentury/whatare.asp
http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Tools/comparecontrast.pdf

21st Century Skills: Will Our Students Be Prepared?
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15202090
http://wilearns.state.wi.us/apps/Default.asp?cid=141


Conflict Yellowstone Wolves Two-Column Note Activity

http://www.powayschools.com/projects/mt&r/ConflictYellowstoneWolf.htm
http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/9711/12/yellowstone.wolves
http://wilearns.state.wi.us/apps/default.asp?cid=133
Main and Significant Detail Table

You Ought To Be in Pictures Activity

http://wilearns.state.wi.us/apps/Default.asp?cid=130
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/affiliates/images/omca/omca_LNG35213.1_1_2.jpg
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/affiliates/images/omca/omca_LNG35217.1_1_2.jpg

Blogging

The Secret Life of Bees
Nice Net
 
Handouts
Inspiration Handout
How to Make Tables in Word
How to Modify a Numbered List in Word

Inspiration Web Site

http://www.inspiration.com