Teaching Comprehension
This website provides free access to units for skill and strategy, comprehension, novel study and reading passages designed to improve student comprehension. www.readworks.org Florida Center for Reading Research- Student Centers http://www.fcrr.org TeenTribune, is a free online educational service offered by the Smithsonian for use by K-12 grade Teachers and students. http://tweentribune.com/ http://www.tweentribune.com/spanish Non-Fiction Material with Various Lexile Levels (Free) https://newsela.com/ Newsela is an innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news, same article at five levels. |
Writing Resources
Visual Thinking Strategies is a method initiated by teacher-initiated discussions about an image. Teachers use the following questions to facilitate discussions about the image.
Places to visit to find an 'image of the day' NY Times Learning Network: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/ NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html MSN : http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/photos/image-of-the-day/ National Geographic: http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/ Listening Practice
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