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Selected Resources for Educators Using Technology
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A Least Tale - experience a Never-Ending Story and learn how to make one
E.L.Easton - English Online - vast set of resources - hover over the English tab for a drop-down menu
NIFL - National Institute for Literacy - collaborative initiative to explore scientifically based research that will improve reading instruction.
NCLB - No Child Left Behind home page
Read: Co-Conspiracy: Using the Internet in the English Classroom, by Christine Bridge
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NCTE - National Council of Teachers of English and ACE (Assembly on Computers in English)Follow Least Tern's link pages for Poetry Study | Grammar | Reading | e-Texts | Literature Study
Digital Storytelling & HyperFictionGeneral Sites | Elementary | Middle and High School
A.Word.A.Day - Read more about RSS Feeds
- Ask the Author - from the Author Page of the Internet Public Library - many contemporary authors have given interviews or provided FAQ's - also look at the Author Links to see who has a website
- Author Sites - international listing provided by the Addison, IL Public Library
- Bethany Roberts Directory of Children's Book Authors and Illustrators on the Web
- Daily Activities: English - have an activity, vocabulary word, quotation (MORE!) delivered to you daily - a wide variety of content
- Horn Book - Authors and Illustrators - letters and a growing library of digital readings by Horn Book authors, largely elementary and middle level
- Interactive Reading Strategies - although NOT a technology integration approach, most of these strategies can be easily, at times better, accomplished with a whiteboard, word processing program, timeline or drawing program - an opportunity for the teacher to create some dynamic templates!
- Reading a-z. A complete online reading program - with subscription, members are able to download "on demand" early readers and other books, as well as lesson plans, worksheets, flashcards and other materials for teaching reading
- Reading Rockets - interviews with prominent living children's authors
- Reading Zone - from IPL (Internet Public Library) - link to authors, creative writing post sites, online mags - and lots of book lists
- Scholastic Author Studies - from Scholastic - text of interviews with many living (some late) authors - site contains other English activities
- Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking - download .pdf charting and mapping tools for specific critical reading needs, such as Cause-Effect, Character Study - from Greece,NY public schools
- Yahoo search results for Dictionary - some highlights:
- OneLook
- RhymeZone
- Word Detective - historical background & explanations of commonly used words and phrases
- Urban Dictionary - contains words and phrases in current US use, or found only in songs or other media, such as "bling bling"
- BBC English - Writing - very nice lessons for grades 4-8 - points of view, analysis, more
- Between the Lions - an elementary reading curriculum support from PBS - interactive
- Children's Literature Web Guide - portal for author sites, lessons, e-texts, more
- Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World - some subject and content indexing
- Handwriting Page Maker - enables teachers to make "jardotty" font pages of their own text to help students practice handwriting with a follow-the-dots type worksheet
- KinderSite - many early literacy activities, ages 2-6 - pulls selected activities from all over the globe focused upon stories - free registration required
- Learn to Read at Starfall - emerging and early readers can use this set of multi-media sequential interactive lessons to reinforce classroom phonics, alphabet and sound curricula - scope & sequence and pedagogy provided for educators and parents - print materials available
- Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun - four Java-based activities to reinforce basic vocabulary - activities are grouped by content word groups
- Literacy Center - early childhood activities
- Literacy Teaching in the Language Arts - links to pedagogical materials for the teaching of reading, including links to technology integrating materials
- The Little Animals Activity Center - from the BBC, learning activities for reading, listening - excellent quality - includes music, art, stories, math
- Mrs. Ginrich's Web Page - this is offered here because the idea is excellent - links from each letter of the alphabet to web pages that focus students and parents on images, stories, sounds - not fully up-to-date, but an inspiration
- Myths, Folktales and Fairy Tales - rich resource for teaching, including author interviews and opportunities for posting student work
- NCTE - position papers and teaching strategies for elementary level English instruction
- PBS - Get Wild About Reading
- Read Write Think - project of NCTE, Marco Polo, and the International Reading Association
- The Early Literacy Advisor - from NCREL, contains a section entitled Using Computers in the Early Childhood Classroom as well as materials relating to assessment, standards, etc.
- Virtual Alphabet - another gem from Minot
Inspiration is now available for the Palm OS.
Middle and High School - Follow Least Tern's link pages for Poetry Study | Grammar | Reading | e-Texts | Literature Study
Just for fun, check out the Cliché Finder - note the link to See Some Other Pages at the bottom.
- Ted Nellen's CyberEnglish site offers this listing of sites for the study of English words
- Alt English Usage FAQ - usage disputes is especially useful
- American Authors on the Web - you don't know what you will find here...
- AP English Resources - links to active sites with high academic standards - from Henrico County, VA
- Banished Word Lists - from Lake Superior State University - yearly lists of words and phrases that deserve to be banished from media
- Computers and Literature - scroll down to Part IV "Computers As Literature" for a links to serious hyperfiction - Rutgers University course outline
- Concorder and
- Dictionary.com - thesaurus, rhyming, multi-lingual
- EDSitement - links to many excellent lessons, including Shakespeare, Alice, Anne Frank, poetry
- Eisenhower Middle School has an interesting digital video program - follow the link to 6th grade to see how they use video to interpret poetry - note, however, that the poems are NOT in the public domain, that student full names are given, and that no credit for use of the poems is contained in the presentations (all No-No's)
- Encompass English - for middle and high school, links to resources in almost all content areas
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts - from Pitt
- the Internet Grammar of English - interactive grammar, Java enabled - from England
- High School Journalism - lesson plans, resources for Teachers and Students
- Judith Vorfeld's Writing Center / Webgrammar - Middle School resource for such sticky topics as homonyms, confused words, spelling...
- Literature Course Syllabi - links to college level courses that actively make use of the Web, as well as web resources - High School and AP
- NCTE Teacher Resources for Middle School English
- Tales of Wonder - etexts of folk and fairy tales from around the world
- Theatre History on the Web - all aspects of performance, especially technical
- Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute / Poetry Lessons - a wide ranging archive of lessons - also many author-specific lessons
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