Teacher Resources Helpful Links for Our Teachers

Integrating Technology into ELA

A multitude of ideas and resources on the link below.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25.cfm#media

Google Tools

Google Reader: http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlereader/tour2.html

Google Books: http://books.google.com/books

Google lit trip

http://www.googlelittrips.org/

VoiceThread: Record your voice, all with images, audio and video

www.voicethread.com

Have students respond to books in comic strip/graphic novel form.  Lots of fun!

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/How-to-Play/Educators/

Students can create postcards about books or send each other postcards as if they are characters within the book using this tool.  Remind students to credit pics and music at the end of postcard.

http://www.postcard.fm/

For younger students use the below site which give more guidance with writing a postcard.

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/postcard/

My favorite ELA go to site:

http://www.readwritethink.org/index.asp

My Space Character Profile:  Students Create myspace pages for Books or Bio Poems for the Book Characters:  Link Below provides examples:

http://hs.auburn.cnyric.org/teachers/Allison_Fennessy/Students

Character Creators: Student can use these sites to create pics for their Character myspace pages.

http://www.buildyourwildself.com/  (probably not for HS students)

http://illustmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtml

Video BookTalks for Middle School Students

http://www.bookwink.com/archives.html

http://www.scholastic.com/librarians/ab/booktalks.htm

Ever Hear of Glogster?

http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/columnists/dyck/dyck037.shtml

Gloster Tutorial: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgqwv5cr_127g7nqc8fm

The Research Process: Students become virtual reporters, research stories and learn skills by getting the News Scoop.

http://pbskids.org/newsflashfive/scoop/index.html

Do you want Free Educational Video Clips that you can use in your classroom?  Check out the link below, there lies a treasure of great clips for you to use.

http://www.teachersdomain.org/tdhome.html

All you Language Arts Lovers, behold, TeachingBooks.net.

This is an rich resource of authors, bookguides, book reviews to help you enrich your classroom and lessons.  Ask your librarian for the password so you can also use it at home.

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