Language+Arts

=Language Arts= [|How To Teach Writing]Amazing site for middle and high school writing. ~C. Westover [|How to Teach a Novel] 6th grade teacher blogs about his experiences teaching a novel. ~C. Westover

[|Teaching with Picture Books] Answers to why teach using picture books, how to teach with picture books, and what books to choose/how to find books. ~C.Westover

[|The Write Site] - Developing writing skills through journalism techniques, devloping a writing style, use of technology in writing.

[|The Writing Process] - provides writers with suggestions for editing and revising their work. ~ C. Westover

[|Tween Teacher] Links directly to an article on blogging with middle school stufdents. Includes a link to the short video about what a blog is and why it is important [|Blogs in Plain English]

[|DRA2 Tutorials and Resources] Online tutorials and webinars for understanding, administering and using the Developmental Reading Assessment grades K-8. ~C. Westover - Read Print - Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. -Absolutely FREE online books - Thousands of novels, poems, stories - Easy to read books online

Save the Words - an interesting project promoting the use of obscure and "endangered" words. Save the Words is a huge collage of words that have been removed from the Oxford Dictionary because a lack of use. Each one of these words is "up for adoption" and looking for someone to adopt it.

[] ~ C. Westover An example of the resources found at the Candler website: (K.Wegley)

== - A number of grade level specific online word games.
 * Fluency Graphing (Grades 5 and up)** - Print out the Fluency Station Directions, the Fluency Line Graph, and the Oral Fluency Chart. Introduce the activity in a small group, teacher-guided session. After that, place a copy of the directions in a center. It's helpful if you can find leveled text selections that already have word counts listed in the margins. Other than that, the kids will have to count the words themselves.

Modified QAR (Question-Answer Relationship)~C.Westover,WEC [|Worthington eLit eboard (password is literacy)]~C.Westover, WEC

[|writingfix.com] --a site full of interactive prompts (right & left-brained, RAFT), lessons, and resources for writing classrooms; be sure to check out the "writing across the curriculum" tab - Kelly Wegley (Worthingway & TWHS)

[|Research Project Calculator] --InfOhio resource that breaks long-term projects down by time and task; provides email reminders and links to other resources - Kelly Wegley (Worthingway & TWHS)

[|Voice Thread] -- talk about and share images, documents, and videos - Kelly Wegley (Worthingway & TWHS)

**School Fusion**--A link to a site that allows you to set up a complete on-line classroom, complete with calendar, blogs, wikis, etc.

=April is POETRY MONTH=

[|poetry.org] - A resource for poetry and poets. -C. Westover [|April 29, 2010 Poem in your Pocket Day] -C. Westover [|30 Poets, 30 Days Blog] -C. Westover

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