Literacy

__**Visual Literacy- Why we need to use it**__ 1. Article about the rationale behind it- [] 2. Visual Teaching Alliance- []

__**A Different way to think about Today's Learners**__ 1. Daniel Pink- __A Whole New Mind__ and __Drive__ []

__**Reading and Writing**__ 1. Google Lit Trips- connection of social studies and literature- contains a book about the Outback, Lewis and Clark, Abuela (spanish connection) and author Tomie DePaola [] 2. Stories Online- by Screen Actors Guild- bring stories to life on the computer [] 3. Mrs. P's Library- Students love listening to great stories. She reads short books and longer ones (longer ones she divides by chapters) and she also does a nice introduction to the book. Very easy to capture the students' attention with this one!! [] 4. Great technology to go along with the books you are reading. Some of these are author sites, some online reading, games that correlate with books or genres and more [] 5. Stories on CNN- (3rd/4th) read the story online and it has vocabulary/comprehension quizzes [] 6. Read Write Think-Great resource to support literacy (promoted by Internation Reading Association [] 7. Reading Strategies- Wealth of information [] 8. Verbs- article about expanding your vocaulary in writing [] 9. Writing- download, printables, organizers, types of writing- you may want to print or save as much as you can. Rumor is this site is so good that they may start charging [] 10. Six Traits- look at the menu on the left to see what is available []