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Michigan Resources
I. GREAT RESOURCES FOR ELA TEACHERS I. GREAT RESOURCES FOR ELA TEACHERS Annenberg video collection of teachers by content area and grade level teaching differentiated lessons in their classrooms. Great resources. http://www.learner.org/ Log into a free account in LearnPort and click on the Resources tab to access NetTrekker. NetTrekker has wonderful content and grade level specific resources for teaching. http://mi.learnport.org/ Teaching the most challenging ELA GLCE http://michigan.gov/documents/mde/UnderstandingbyDesign_219619_7.pdf The Michigan Department of Education organized a committee of educators and teachers to address the most challenging GLCEs assessed at grades 4, 5, 6, and 7. The committee developed example lessons based upon Wiggins and McTighe’s (2004) Understanding by Design (UbD) framework. The lessons are a series of learning experiences that provide focus questions, learning targets, performance indicators, and learning activities that include literacy strategies. WebQuests are wonderful complete interactive lessons online. This is the WebQuest HomePage where you can search for your content specific areas and grade levels. http://webquest.org/index.php Lesson plans and web resources for content area teachers instructional unites by grade level http://teachnology.com/ Scholastic resources for teachers from http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplans.jsp Lesson plans, rubrics, web sites for teachers, rated by teachers, for teaching http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/ ReadWriteThink Lesson plans and web resources for educators, including student materials http://readwritethink.org/ Language Arts Lesson Plans http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LA.htm Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Literature and ELA http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/arts/artlit.html Lesson plans, and by Resource Type and Grade Level http://www.marcopolo-education.org/EducatorHome.aspx Graphic Organizer (FREE) and online, where you and students can create storyboards, do brainstorming, story mapping and planning, analyzing and compare and contrast activities. http://www.bubbl.us/ Free downloadable Graphic Organizers and resources from http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/graphic_organizers.htm Bookmarking online: These are three different FREE bookmarking websites, termed ‘social bookmarking’ because you can save, categorize (tag) and share your favorite sites in an online web site so you and your students can access them from anywhere at any time on the Internet. http://del.icio.us/ http://tumblr.com http://www.furl.net Grand Blanc K-12 subject area resources http://teacher.grand-blanc.k12.mi.us/summer/math.htm
Web2.0 classroom tools for educators http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/the-best-web-20-applications-for-education-%e2%80%94-2007/
Proofreading practice for grades K-8 at Houghton Mifflin’s site. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html Library of Congress "American Memories" - Lesson Plans based on Themes using original sources http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/alessons/index.html Award winning Children’s Books - http://www.dawcl.com/introduction.html Children’s Literature and Language Arts Resources http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.htm Newbery Award Winning Books http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberymedal.cfm Authors and Illustrators on the Web - Links to all kinds of children’s authors’ web pages http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html International children’s Digital Library - over 10,000 books available free to everyone hosted at the University of MD http://www.icdlbooks.org/ Book reviews for children’s books Shelfari - a free social book sharing site to create a virtual book shelf for book clubs, literary circles, your classroom, family and friends. http://www.shelfari.com/ "Book Adventure" Resources for parents, students and teachers from Sylvan Learning - http://bookadventure.com/ II. ELA PODCASTS AND AUDIO Educational Podcasts site http://www.epnweb.org/
National Geographic site and was titled "Traveler Magazine’s Walks of a Lifetime." http://www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/walks.html Profile America CNN latest student news in videocasts online http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/ Today in History http://mattstodayinhistory.blogspot.com/
Great Speeches in History http://www.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/History/ Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/
Podcast Creation Sites:
III. ELA SPECIFIC RESOURCES Comprehensive Reading Lists from California http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/ll/ap/litsearch.asp
ELA Assessments from Illinois Dept of Education http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/ela/capd.htm
Educational software and hardware reviews for parents and educators for 2007 http://www.childrenssoftware.com/pdf/93_ctr_dec07.pdf
Wikis in plain English (neat video explanation) http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english
Twitter in plain English
http://blip.tv/file/get/Leelefever-TwitterInPlainEnglish872.flv Blogs in plain English (neat video explanation) http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs
Classroom example of a blog for Project Write from the Red Cedar Project at MSU http://bhsenglish3.edublogs.org/
Carolyn’s del.icio.us site for ELAelem
On-Line Stories for children. Wonderful learning resources, stories, games, music, coloring. http://www.sundhagen.com/babbooks/
High interest books for upper elementary:
http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/library/collectionfromLMS/highinterest.html Children’s books for reluctant readers:
http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/toppicks/tp/hi_lo_books.htm Tumble animated e-books (a FREE, no obligation, 30 day trial)
http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/customer_login.asp?accessdenied=%2Flibrary%2Fasp%2Fhome%5Ftumblebooks%2Easp Interactive learning resources from the U.K. Crickweb for different levels. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1literacy.html
Grand Blanc K-12 subject area resources http://teacher.grand-blanc.k12.mi.us/summer/math.htm
Children’s Literature on the Internet http://pbskids.org/
Classics for young children. Collection of the classics: Wizard of Oz, Wind in the Willows, Treasure Island http://www.candlelightstories.com/
Fun Language learning for Elementary grades http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html
Caldecott Award winning book list
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal.cfm MDE Genre Project Document http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/Genre_Project_197249_7.pdf
Software reviews for increasing elementary reading skills:
First Class Learning Software
http://www.learningvillage.com/ Discovery Learning books and audio by ages and interests
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/parents/reviewcorner/books/index.html Superkids software reviews
http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/reviews/reviews.shtml Power to learn for Parents – includes software reviews and tips
http://www.powertolearn.com/parents/index.shtml For Parents – what to look for and how to pick software
http://www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/articles/clicking/clicking_print.html Learning with mysteries - five approaches for teaching the mystery genre and connecting to learning http://www.mysterynet.com/learn/sites/
Legends - history, literature, lore with primary source materials http://bestoflegends.org/index.html
Footnote http://www.footnote.com/index.php -. A fantastic story telling site from real sources in history.
MDE Genre Project Document http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/Genre_Project_197249_7.pdf
ACT Michigan HS Content Expectations Grammar and Rhetoric http://michigan.gov/documents/mde/GrammarModule_186324_7.pdf Misunderstood minds from PBS for adolescent literacy - video examples of difficulties students have in reading and writing EA Poe Society of Baltimore Anthology of Middle English Literature - essays, articles and sources on Chaucer, Gawain, Langland, Julian and others http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/ Legends - history, literature, lore with primary source materials http://bestoflegends.org/index.html Bibliomania - free online literature and study guides for classic pieces of literature. Searchable by author, title and full text http://www.bibliomania.com/ Shakespeare resource center http://www.shakespearehigh.com/library/surfbard/ The Red Cedar Digital Storytelling Resource Collection http://rcwp.wikispaces.com/Digital_Storytelling The Center for Digital Story Telling http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html Joe Brennan’s Blog about Digital Storytelling http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/digital_storytelling Footnote http://www.footnote.com/index.php -. A fantastic story telling site from real sources in history. Joining Discovery Learning (United Streaming) and Digital Storytelling A WebQuest to teach you about educational uses of digital storytelling http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/ Create your own DigitalStorytelling classroom online and create assignments etal for students. http://www.digitalstoryteller.org/docs/classroomsetup.htm The elements of Digital storytelling from School of Journalism U of Minn. http://www.inms.umn.edu/elements/ DigiTales 7 steps to create a story http://www.digitales.us/resources/seven_steps.php Evaluating DigiTales - rubrics http://www.digitales.us/evaluating/index.php 7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/39398
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| Differentiated Instruction ELA K-8 Curriculum Alignment ELA GLCE Labels ELA HS Assessments Michigan Department Of Ed |
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