| Pam Petty's Education Site URL: http://www.pampetty.com This is Pam Petty's homepage. It include links to Western Kentucky sites, email links, and a table of links to educational sites relating to reading, literacy, storytelling, child and family studies, technology in education, curricular areas, and children's literature. |
Auto-Bio Poem URL: http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Lang_arts/Writing_comp/WCP0003.html This activity was developed for teachers participating in the Wisconsin Writing Project. It works for me when used with K-12 teachers; they have found it useful with most students at most grade levels. It's especially fun in the beginning of the year when we all need to get to know each other. Purpose: It this lesson, the writer analyzes self to provide an introduction to the rest of the class. |
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| CanTeach: How to Write an
"I AM" Poem URL: http://www.track0.com/canteach/elementary/poetry3.html An I Am poem is a good way to teach children to focus on their own characteristics. It also is a good ice breaker for the beginning of the year. |
The Reading Genie URL: http://www.auburn.edu/~murraba I am Dr. Bruce Murray--the Reading Genie--an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Auburn University. Actually, there's nothing magic about learning to read when we base our instruction on the science of reading education. We can plan lessons using this public knowledge base to ease children into reading and spelling with the alphabetic code. Soon they will be reading independently with understanding and enjoyment. |
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| BOOK: The Literacy Center URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1571100229 The book has two distinct parts. The first part is a description of practices for motivating reading and writing, the design of literacy centers in classrooms, and how to use them. The second part is a group of activities for modeling literature experiences to interest children in reading for use in social collaborative settings. |
BOOK: Scaffolding
Emergent Literacy: A Child-Centered Approach for Preschool through Grade
5 URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0205279899 This book offers a sensitive approach to helping children become more strategic in their building of literacy skills and concepts. Underscored by rich child development theory,developmentally appropriate practices and sound research, the book offers a comprehensive array of literacy activities to support children's emergent-to-fluent literacy from the preprimary years through the fifth grade. |
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| BOOK: Jim Trelease's Read
Aloud Handbook URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140469710/ This site allows you to read reviews of Jim Trelease's Read Aloud Handbook. This book is highly recommended as a guide for reading aloud to children. |
BOOK: Towards a
Reading-Writing Classroom URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0435084615 This thoroughly practical book discusses ways in which the process approach that has revolutionized teaching writing may be applied effectively in the teaching of reading. The integration of reading and writing instruction has been proved to be a valuable instructional approach, and this book not only outlines basic research, but offers sensible applications for the classroom teacher |
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| Learning to Read and
Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children URL: http://www.naeyc.org/about/position/psread1.htm A joint position of the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) |
Books for Beginning
Readers URL: http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/jensen2.htm A briefly annotated bibliography of books that are appropriate for beginning readers. |
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| Teaching and Reaching
Each Child as an Individual URL: http://www.nwrel.org/nwedu/winter_96/article3.html Students at Cherry Valley Elementary School in Polson, Montana, are deep into literacy, language, and the love of words. This articles tells of one school's attempts to promote literacy. |
Every Child Reading: An
Action Plan URL: http://www.learningfirst.org/readingaction.html A Learning First Alliance Action Paper This action paper was adopted by the Learning First Alliance, an organization of 12 leading national education associations. It has been informed by many distinguished experts in reading. |
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| Successful Early
Childhood Education in an Imperfect World: URL: http://www.nwrel.org/cfc/publications/imperfect.html A look at 4 schools and their emphasis on literacy. |
Reading: The First
Chapter In Education URL: http://www.cec.sped.org/ericec/frstchap.htm This is an ERIC document that reflects on early literacy attempts. |
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| Helping children learn
about reading URL: http://npin.org/library/pre1998/n00261/n00261.html Practical suggestions for how to aid literacy development in young children. |
Phonemic Awareness: An
Important Early Step in Learning to Read URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d119.html This Digest discusses the concept of the awareness that spoken language is made up of discrete sounds, why this concept is so important to early childhood educators, its relation to the debate on the best type of reading instruction, and finally, teaching methods that may help children in developing such an awareness. |
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| Preventing Reading
Difficulties URL: http://books.nap.edu/html/prdyc/ Lengthy report dealing with the topic of preventing reading difficulties. Some good research. |
Some Caveats When
Applying Two Trends in Diagnosis (IRI) URL: http://ericae.net/db/edo/ED297303.htm This site discusses a synthesis of research regarding the use of IRI's. |
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Reading Comprehension
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Reading Comprehension URL: http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm Featuring all new free weekly reading comprehension worksheets for teachers and parents to copy for their kids. They include original stories, poems, essays, and articles. They're most appropriate for upper elementary through middle school years
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| Muskingum College Center
for Advancement of Learning Reading Comprehension URL: http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/reading.html#Alert WONDERFUL site that includes information and strategies for READING COMPREHENSION. The best I have seen on-line.
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Making and Writing Words URL: http://www.readingonline.org/articles/words/rasinski_index.html Making and Writing Words is a variation of Making Words, a popular spelling and word study instructional activity. In Making and Writing Words, students are guided by their teacher in writing and sorting words using a limited set of letters. Teachers have found that the activity is engaging and appears to be helpful in developing students' proficiency in word recognition and spelling. |
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| Interactive Word Games -
Words in a Word URL: http://24.2.81.10/fcgi-bin/jumble.pl Enter characters in the space provided and a list of the words that can be derived from the characters will be displayed |
Interactive Word Game -
How many words can you make? URL: http://www.joelson.addr.com/makingwords.htm Move the Scrabble letters around on the screen to make new words (present challenge: Leaping Leprechauns). |
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| Making Words - templates URL: http://www.k111.k12.il.us/lafayette/fourblocks/templates_-_making_words.htm Pocket chart templates for the book Making Words by Patricia Cunningham. Amazing resource. |
Making
Words? A Guided
Spelling Instructional Strategy URL: http://www.readingcenter.buffalo.edu/center/research/word.html Steps in planning a Making Words lesson and theoretical background on technique. |
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Essential elements of sound literacy instruction. |
at bigchalk.com You have GOT to see this! |
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