Speaker, author, and singer Bill Jamerson shares his perspective working in a CCC during World War II.
Blog to check out--Mr. Schu Reads
Dollar General Literacy Foundation's Youth Literacy Grants
Blog to check out--Mr. Schu Reads
Dollar General Literacy Foundation's Youth Literacy Grants
This is a fun site if you are growing impatient with waiting for your favorite author to publish their next book. At What Should I Read Next?, you type in a favorite title and author, and the search engine give suggestions for closely related books you might enjoy.
Wouldn't it be great if someone created an online game that builds student vocabulary in a way that has kids clamoring to play? And wouldn't it be great if we could solve the problem of world hunger? Free Rice combines these two worthy goals. Each word defined correctly builds your tally of grains of rice donated to poor communities, and the game is designed to scale the difficulty of the words up or down depending on your responses. This feature allows students of almost any age or ability to enjoy it.
ReadWriteThink publishes monthly literary calendars packed with author milestones and links to literary resources on the web. ReadWriteThink is a joint venture of IRA, NCTE, and Thinkfinity.
Magnetry: Express Yourself--app--Encourages creativity, playing with words, and writing poetry.
The Wired Bunch--App--a Western e-book series infused with interactive technology.
TweenTribune---Website focusing on news and information for K-12 students. Designed so that teachers can make reading assignments and involve youth in posting public and private comments. Free teacher accounts.
Magnetry: Express Yourself--app--Encourages creativity, playing with words, and writing poetry.
The Wired Bunch--App--a Western e-book series infused with interactive technology.
TweenTribune---Website focusing on news and information for K-12 students. Designed so that teachers can make reading assignments and involve youth in posting public and private comments. Free teacher accounts.
Great site to help format a document into a newspaper article.
Online Writing Lab (OWL): A service of Purdue University, the Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides writing resources and instructional materials as a free service to Purdue students, members of the community, and other users around the world.
Read.gov: The Library of Congress has announced the launch of a new multimedia website that offers resources designed to encourage the reading of books and to interest users in learning about the authors and illustrators who create them. This "Center for the Book in the Library of Congres" offers this site as part of it's mission "to promote books, reading, literacy, and libraries." One of the hightlights of this site is "the Exquisite Corpse Adventure." Its first episode will debut and be read by its author, Jon Scieszka, during the National Book Festival.
ARTICLE: The Science of Storytelling
Word Choice
Changing your words can change the feeling of what you want to say.
When you say the word sing everyone has an idea. Check out Brian Hull singing in multiple voices---Just amazing.
Purplefeather.co.uk works with the power of words. Here is a great example of word choice.
When you say the word sing everyone has an idea. Check out Brian Hull singing in multiple voices---Just amazing.
Structure of a Sentence
Good site to help with sentence structure and parts of speech---complex and compound sentences along with simple sentences.
Good site to help with sentence structure and parts of speech---complex and compound sentences along with simple sentences.
Fables
Link to Aesop's Fables with messages
Link to Aesop's Fables with messages
Language Arts
Bill Jamerson and the CCC
Speaker, author, and singer Bill Jamerson shares his perspective working in a CCC during World War II.
Book Recommendations
This is a fun site if you are growing impatient with waiting for your favorite author to publish their next book. At What Should I Read Next?, you type in a favorite title and author, and the search engine give suggestions for closely related books you might enjoy.
Free Rice--Vocabulary Builder
Wouldn't it be great if someone created an online game that builds student vocabulary in a way that has kids clamoring to play? And wouldn't it be great if we could solve the problem of world hunger? Free Rice combines these two worthy (if desparate) goals. Each word defined correctly builds your tally of grains of rice donated to poor communities, and the game is designed to scale the difficulty of the words up or down depending on your responses. This feature allows students of almost any age or ability to enjoy it.
Literary Calendars
ReadWriteThink publishes monthly calendars packed with author milestones and links to literary resources on the web. ReadWriteThink is a joint venture of IRA, NCTE, and Thinkfinity.
Newspaper Article Format
Great site to help format a document into a newspaper article.
OWL at Purdue
A service of Purdue University, the Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides writing resources and instructional materials as a free service to Purdue students, members of the community, and other users around the world.
Read.gov
The Library of Congress has announced the launch of a new multimedia website that offers resources designed to encourage the reading of books and to interest users in learning about the authors and illustrators who create them. This "Center for the Book in the Library of Congres" offers this site as part of it's mission "to promote books, reading, literacy, and libraries." One of the hightlights of this site is "the Exquisite Corpse Adventure." Its first episode will debut and be read by its author, Jon Scieszka, during the National Book Festival.
Which Greek God/Goddess are you?
Great list of myths and Greek Gods and Goddesses. Excellent!
Word Choice
Changing your words can change the feeling of what you want to say.
Structure of a Sentence
Good site to help with sentence structure and parts of speech---complex and compound sentences along with simple sentences.
Fables
Link to Aesop's Fables with messages
Working with Picture Captions:
What's Going On in This Picture from the New York Times
Bill Jamerson and the CCC
Speaker, author, and singer Bill Jamerson shares his perspective working in a CCC during World War II.
Book Recommendations
This is a fun site if you are growing impatient with waiting for your favorite author to publish their next book. At What Should I Read Next?, you type in a favorite title and author, and the search engine give suggestions for closely related books you might enjoy.
Free Rice--Vocabulary Builder
Wouldn't it be great if someone created an online game that builds student vocabulary in a way that has kids clamoring to play? And wouldn't it be great if we could solve the problem of world hunger? Free Rice combines these two worthy (if desparate) goals. Each word defined correctly builds your tally of grains of rice donated to poor communities, and the game is designed to scale the difficulty of the words up or down depending on your responses. This feature allows students of almost any age or ability to enjoy it.
Literary Calendars
ReadWriteThink publishes monthly calendars packed with author milestones and links to literary resources on the web. ReadWriteThink is a joint venture of IRA, NCTE, and Thinkfinity.
Newspaper Article Format
Great site to help format a document into a newspaper article.
OWL at Purdue
A service of Purdue University, the Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides writing resources and instructional materials as a free service to Purdue students, members of the community, and other users around the world.
Read.gov
The Library of Congress has announced the launch of a new multimedia website that offers resources designed to encourage the reading of books and to interest users in learning about the authors and illustrators who create them. This "Center for the Book in the Library of Congres" offers this site as part of it's mission "to promote books, reading, literacy, and libraries." One of the hightlights of this site is "the Exquisite Corpse Adventure." Its first episode will debut and be read by its author, Jon Scieszka, during the National Book Festival.
Which Greek God/Goddess are you?
Great list of myths and Greek Gods and Goddesses. Excellent!
Word Choice
Changing your words can change the feeling of what you want to say.
Structure of a Sentence
Good site to help with sentence structure and parts of speech---complex and compound sentences along with simple sentences.
Fables
Link to Aesop's Fables with messages
Working with Picture Captions:
What's Going On in This Picture from the New York Times