Instructional strategies

Content-area reading instruction

http://www.maine207.k12.il.us/departments/351/instrats.pdf

Activity Lesson in Social Studies

http://www.litandlearn.lpb.org/lessons/lssn_3drta.pdf

Chart that can be used with older students to

help them organize their research information.

http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/kwl.pdf

Description and example of chart used with 4^th grade students.

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1kwlh.htm

Lessons ~~ Online tutorials on Active Reading

http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/active.htm

Descriptions of Different organizational strategies

http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/organization.htm

http://www.readingcomprehensionconnection.com/lesson.html

Graphic Organizers from Houghton Mifflin

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

Graphic Organizers

Reading Quest

Orgainzers for social studies and all subject areas.

http://readingquest.org/

http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6293.html?wtlAC=gs060202,email-h

Graphic Organizers

http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/

Don't Reinvent the Wheel

Graphic organizers for vocabulary, summarizing, sequencing,

main ideas and supporting details, making connections, self-questioning,

inferences/predictions, cause and effect, compare and contrast, writing

http://int.cysd.k12.pa.us/Formspage/index.htm

Determining an Author's main idea

http://teacher.scholastic.com/reading/bestpractices/comprehension/authorsmainidea.pdf

Middle School Strategies
http://fac-staff.seattleu.edu/kschlnoe/LitCircles/Structure/struct6.html

Strategies for middle school teachers to integrate

into their lesson design and promote literacy skills across the curriculum

http://www.litandlearn.lpb.org/

Classroom Strategies to Engender Student Questioning

Ways in which teachers can involve students in developing key questions around

curriculum content by tapping into their curiosity, teacher-developed strategies to focus students on

problem solving and deeper thinking, takes you through the creation of a unit from start to finish

http://www.fno.org/toolbox.html

Examples of the types of essential questions that students can ask

http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html

Hypertext guide to writing a research paper, explaining every step of the process in detail

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/index.html

Shows how to document all sources in a works cited page

http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/mla.html

What it is and how to recognize and avoid it http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html

Plagiarism Workshop - designed to give high school students an introduction to the issue

of plagiarism, an overview of copyright laws and fair-use provisions, and a demonstration of the

use of paraphrasing and quoting as methods of avoiding it. Accessing a wide variety of the

Internet sites on plagiarism and copyright, the focus of this workshop is to encourage students

to empathize with artists and authors whose work is "stolen" when it is plagiarized.

http://mail.nvnet.org/~cooper_j/plagiarism/

The site helps teachers or professors (or even parents)

determine if a given piece of academic work

has been obtained from the Internet http://www.plagiarized.com/index.shtml

A Teacher's Guide - places to go for help with student plagiarism, how to identify it,

what to do when it happens, how to prevent it. 

http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/where/plagiarism_stoppers.html

http://www.marcopolo-education.org/state/standards.aspx

The site will allow you to make graphic organizers by filling out a simple form.

The materials are made instantly and can be printed directly from your computer.

http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/

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

Allows you to make rubrics by filling out a simple form. The materials

are made instantly and can be printed directly from your computer.

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

This is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to

developthem from scratch and can also help analyze the performance of your whole class.

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

 

Online Edition of the Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus

Interactive, visual representation that maps the word,

its meaning and related synonyms. 

http://thesaurus.plumbdesign.com/online/index.html

http://www.tafe.sa.edu.au/lili/index.html

SurLaLune Fairy Tale pages by Heidi Anne Heiner.

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/index.html

Fairy tale and folklore studies featuring 26 annotated fairy tales, including their histories,

similar tales across cultures, and over 1,000 illustrations.

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/

Best of the Humanities on the Web resources from some of the world's great museums,

libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.

http://edsitement.neh.gov/

Georgia Learning Connections has compiled the best resources of

the Web into an organized collection similar to a school media center, easy

for educators tolocate and implement in the classroom.

http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/trc/

http://www2.dpi.state.wi.us/sig/practices/high_2.asp

Internet-based cooperative group lessons for all ages and subjects.

(When you go to the site, click on Topic found on the left-hand side of the page.)

http://webquest.org/

PDF Files for Class

KWL

Strategic Reading

Author's Main Idea

Content Area Reading

Lesson 3 Reading

http://kathyschrock.net/fry/fry.html