Literacy

Literacy = reading, writing, speaking, listening & viewing

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READING -
Strategies:

Best reading site I've seen in a long time!

Critical Reading site that discusses Critical Reading and Critical Thinking. Very clear.

READING PROCESS:

1. Reading Process - A very comprehensive site (with videos) describing the process and strategies.
2. Reading Process - A site with many aspects that affect a reader's success. 
3. A slide show about the Reading Process
4. Another site....   
5. Wikipedia on Reading Process (I know...but it's good!)

• Glogs that help teach Reading & Writing Strategies

Expository Text

Do you have students who struggle with the reading and writing needed to develop concepts and content knowledge in your discipline? If so, this section of Literacy Matters offers you "the best of the best on the Web"—web sites containing background information, research-based instructional strategies, lesson plans, sample activities, guidelines, book lists, and resources to strengthen your students' literacy skills, and thus, strengthen their content learning.

Nonfiction reading:  KidzNews - great reading and place to publish nonfiction writing.

Information:

• Literacy Matters - research about text structures, lesson plans, examples, student activities, and more...
• This is a great article with research and how to model text structures. Note: it only identifies 4 text structures.
• Interesting article - constructivist approach
• Many cool note taking structures and ideas. Not overly connected to the text structures but interesting ideas for final notes/projects? (Last one - web page - is fun.)
• Reading, Writing, Thinking - amazing GO's for immediate use (QAR)

Lessons:

• Check out an Article and Examples from Lewis and Clark... Lesson plans from Mt. EverestQuest that use journal entries (real?) and focus on expository text structures.
• Expository Text Structures and their Signal Words (6th grade also includes Question/Answer), Stanford site with information, text structures and examples,

Assessment:

• Retelling Rubric (from Middleweb) that could be used to assess notes taken while paying attention to Text Structures.

Narrative Text:

1. Learning Clubs (for both reading and writing)
2. Reading, Writing, Thinking - amazing GO's for immediate use (QAR, Story Plan)
3. Ton of stuff: Reading Rockets, Reading Lady - comprehension strategies
4. Hmmm...http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng391/crit.html
5. Just Read Now! A lot of strategies with quick explanations.
6. Reading Matrix
7. Reading Process - pre/during/after

Before Reading:

During Reading:

Post Reading:

1. Write the author - Lesson, list of addresses,
2. Cool post reading programs/sites from Read, Write, Think
3. Great ideas for different books

WRITING ~

SPEAKING ~

Teacher Observation / Rubric - SOLOM
WIDA - can do listening and speaking