I have been inundated with great resources lately and this is the first in a long list...
Wonderopolis.org does a "Wonder of the Day" every day that is geared towards kids in grades 2-8. Each wonder of the day starts with an essential question. Recently an essential question was "Do you believe in UFO's?". Each wonder has a brief video clip (3 minutes or less), an explanation/information passage, vocabulary words, and questions to reflect on.
Happy wondering!
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Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
PBS Reading Elementary
PBS Education might as well hire me on to their marketing team because I feel like I keep talking about their resources. But honestly, they're awesome. I recently found on the PBS Kids Island-Teachers page a graphic of their Literacy Framework for Kindergarten through 3rd grade.
The graphic gives a complete breakdown of the individual skills and the cool part is that you can click on the colored blocks and it takes you directly to the lesson/video/activity for that specific skill!
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
PBS Kids Word of the Day
The PBS Kids Island: Raising Readers site posts a "Word of the Day" every day. The word of the day features a definition, an option for the definition to be read aloud, and a brief entertaining video to help children understand the definition of the word.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Deeper uses of Starfall.com
Many early elementary teachers are aware of, and frequently use, Starfall.com. It's a free emergent reading resource. I had been using it just for the brief videos with my kindergarten classes, but didn't realize there was more to it until one of my teacher friends pointed it out.
If you go to the bottom of the main screen and click on EDUCATORS. On the left hand side there is a small box called "tools".
Click on "Scope & Sequence" and you will see all of the online books broken down by unit.
It gets even better! From the Unit description you can view the online book, download the book, view the story words, there is a link to additional interactive practice ("Make a word with -ig" in the example above), and additional concept, and writing practice!
If you have some type of interactive board, this can be used for a lesson, then you can print out the additional resources and have students follow up at center time.
If you go to the bottom of the main screen and click on EDUCATORS. On the left hand side there is a small box called "tools".
It gets even better! From the Unit description you can view the online book, download the book, view the story words, there is a link to additional interactive practice ("Make a word with -ig" in the example above), and additional concept, and writing practice!
If you have some type of interactive board, this can be used for a lesson, then you can print out the additional resources and have students follow up at center time.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
PBS Raising Readers: Reading Activity Calendar
PBS comes through again! They have a daily Reading Activity Calendar that you can follow and use daily. You can also go back to previous months/days in the year as well! And for our ESL teachers, it can be translated into Spanish!
Friday, October 7, 2011
Shelfari in the classroom: How does it translate?
Shelfari is a free "social reading" service that allows you to keep track of books that you have read, rate them, and write reviews on them. You can also find other people that have read them same books and book suggestions based on what you've just read. You can continually add to your bookshelves throughout the year and sort them by Title, Author, Date added, and by Ratings.
The neat thing about this program is that you can keep track of the books that you have read with your class on virtual shelves. I have found that this gets kids excited about reading and they are actually willing to write a brief review of the book so that it can go on the bookshelf.
The neat thing about this program is that you can keep track of the books that you have read with your class on virtual shelves. I have found that this gets kids excited about reading and they are actually willing to write a brief review of the book so that it can go on the bookshelf.
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