Identifies and explains the teaching applications of Weblogs, Wikis, Really Simple Syndication feeds and aggregators, social bookmarking, online photo galleries, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, and features examples from teachers around the world.
Presents ideas and instructions for educators to inspire younger readers during literature discussions with the addition of technology elements into presentations, and discusses student-videos, audio, and text booktalks; and provides lesson plans with examples.
15 models for teaching and learning in information-rich and technology-rich environments
Loertscher, David V.
2005
Presents a resource guide for the elementary and secondary classroom that describes alternative activities that require students to analyze the information they collect in the library media center.
Explains the technique of guided reading, describing the reading strategies used by good readers, discussing the reading stages students pass through, exploring the role of phonics and word study, considering assessment and grouping, and including suggested reading lists.
Offers teachers of grades three and up practical ideas and simple techniques for incorporating wikis, blogs, podcasts, and other digital resources in the classroom, and includes reproducible worksheets for classroom activities.
12 lessons for using newspapers, magazines, and other nonfiction texts to build key comprehension skills
Little, Dawn
2010
Provides resources and materials for educators teaching reading comprehension to third- through sixth-grade students, including twelve lessons that use nonfiction texts, along with scaffolding tips, assessment ideas, and graphic organizers for each of the lessons.
Provides month-by-month phonics activities designed to be used as the Working with Words component of the Four-Blocks method of literacy instruction in the first grade classroom.
Presents lessons and reproducibles for teaching fourth through eighth graders five genres of writing: "how-to," informational, personal and fictional narrative, and persuasive.
Contains ten lessons about different tall tale characters for use in third- through fifth-grade classrooms, each with a two-page reproducible tale, history notes, language arts activities, cross-curriculum teaching activities, reproducible maps, and a list of related books.
