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• Students need to read their notes and share information with their friends to determine if they have enough facts to answer their questions.
• Students need to sort their facts by using tools such as graphic organizers.
• Students need to think about what new facts they have learned about their topic.
• By thinking about what their facts mean to them, students internalize their learning.

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Kindergarten Literacy - Early Childhood Education Network - interactive games requiring Flash Player which help students with letters, numbers, alphabet, and words.

BBC – Bitesize Reading - This website from the BBC features tons of activities for many subject areas. This particular link goes to a page that covers reading for non-fiction.  The lesson can be viewed at large screen format on the Activboard. You will find an activity, a revision and a quiz for each topic. Consider using Activotes on the quizzes!

Word Wizard - Vocabulary and spelling practice for words from popular childrens books!

Reading Workshop – Comprehension Grades 1-2

Journey North for Kids – A sampling of stories, pictures and video clips from nature just for kids

Literacy – Primary ages 4-11 – BBC Schools Online– games, activities, worksheets

Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose – Literacy games for kid

Funbrain – Reading Activities – Reading games

PBS Kids – Reading/Literacy games

Power House Reading Strategies - Provides graphic organizers to practice the following reading strategies: Connect the know to the new | Distinguishing Importance | Asking Questions | Drawing Inferences | Retelling or Synthesizing.

Flash Card Maker - Teachers or students can use this tool to make and print flash cards to learn, review, and study concepts, record important information, etc. (Scholastic)

Reading for Meaning - PBS Reading Rockets Launching Young Readers overview of the television program.

Reading Strategies – Scaffolding Students’ Interactions with Texts - Key concept synthesis, parallel note-taking, inferential reading, and much more. (Central School District, NY)

Reading Strategy of the Month - Links to great articles about how to teach various reading strategies. (Florida Online Reading Professional Development)

Reading as a Strategic Activity - offers an "up close" look at a range of innovative and effective reading strategies, along with actual classroom examples and associated lesson plans.

Reading Strategies - A host of reading strategies for use in the classroom.

Literacy and Language – Reading Assessment and Student Center Activities

Teaching Tools - Mosaic Reading Tools - This source includes a WEALTH of resource for all kinds of ideas and strategies to increase student reading comprehension competencies. Resources include lesson plans, assessments, worksheets, and even PowerPoint presentations.

Strategies for Effective Use of Science Reading Materials - Includes before, during, and after strategies for K-6. ( Salt Lake City School District)

Technology Integration Resources for Strategies that Work

Avoiding Secondhand Thinking - Dr. Jamie McKenzie - Read his thought provoking articles about critical thinking and reading.

Power Reading and the School Library

Strategies for Critical Thinking

Concept Mapping – What is a dog? - examples using Inspiration to reorder and reclassify information for better understanding.

Key Concepts Synthesis

Flash Card Maker - (Scholastic) Teachers or students can use this tool to make and print flash cards to learn, review, and study concepts, record important information, etc.

Reading Strategies - A host of reading strategies for use in the classroom.

Review, Write, Rate and Revise Elementary - elementary research process tutorial from the Oregon State Library System

Review Your Notes - elemetary research process tutorial from the Oregon State Library System

Write What You’ve Learned - elementary research process tutorial from the Oregon State Library System

Dosity.com – K-2 Language Arts games - Phonics, Reading and Writing

K-2 Student Interactives – Utah Education Network – Reading/Writing

Big6 Stage 5:  Synthesis of Information from the Big6 blog

Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension - Grade 2 and up to support reading comprehension.

Power House Reading Strategies - Provides graphics organizers to practice reading strategies

Questions that Challenge the Student to organize and synthesize information

Scaffolding Students’ Interactions with Texts - ...(Central School District, NY) Key concept synthesis, parallel note-taking, inferential reading, and much more

Questions that challenge the student to organize and synthesize information

SQ4R – Reading Skills Strategies - (Gallaudet University) SQ4R, question stems, sample concept maps, and much more.

Teaching Tools – Mosaic Reading Tools -This source includes a WEALTH of resources for all kinds of ideas and strategies to increase student reading comprehension competencies. Resources include lesson plans, assessments, worksheets, and even PowerPoint presentation.

Technology Integration Resources for Strategies That Work - Outstanding resource that provides web and print resources to teach reading strategies to primary, intermediate, and upper level students

Read-Write-Think – NCTE – Lessons, Standards, Web Resources, Student Materials K-12

Writing Reports in Kindergarten? Yes! - This lesson provides three types of reports that can be written and shared by kindergarten students. These reports allow young students to see themselves as writers with important information to share.

Plan and Make Your Project

Playing with Time - There's an entire section, the Toolkit, devoted to teaching students how to make their own movies using a camcorder or stills.

VoiceThread – a powerful new way to talk about and share your images, documents, and videos K-12

Choosing Your Presentation Type - A template to assist students in selecting the best presentation type for their product.

Power Point in the Classroom – Tutorial - Learn to use ppt in the classroom using Act360 -E-Learning Solutions advice.

Technology Tutorials - Learn to use tech tools such as PowerPoint, Inspiration, MS Word, Dreamweaver, and many more.

Free Microsoft Publisher 2003 Tutorial - Learn to effectively create documents using MS Publisher.

Create Your Project - Elementary research process tutorial from the Oregon State Library Information System

Teacher Help:  Project Manager - elementary research process tutorial from the Oregon State Library System

Modifications to Technology for Lower-level Readers - Lesson ideas to assist students in using technology tools.

Teacher Tools:  Overview @2Learn.ca - These are engaging and interactive tools for learning

Tools for Peer Review

Rating by Others

Assessment Tools

Rubistar - a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics

Elementary Performance Assessments - Scoring tools were created by Baltimore County Public Schools Office of Library Information Services, using Rubistar Rubric Generator, including models developed by the Maryland Assessment Consortium and the Maryland State Department of Education.

Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Assessment and Rubric Information

Primary Grade Self-Evaluation Teamwork Rubric - 3 point scale using features of a sandwich to graphically show when all criteria are met

Articles About Teaching for Understanding

What is Understanding?  A Deeper Look - Active Learning Practice for Schools ALPSresources for cultivating active, engaged, and thoughtful participants in their own learning practice. The purpose of this site is to create an on-line collaborative environment between teachers and administrators from around the world with educational researchers, professors, and curriculum designers at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and Project Zoo.

Teaching for Understanding:  Educating Students for Performance - A Wisconsin Education Association Council article supporting the vision that "to teach for performance is to believe in the capacity of students to create, to construct knowledge and to assign meaning to what they have learned and experienced."