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Downloadable teaching units, online projects
that make integrating technology into language arts easier, fun
teaching ideas: Take your pick!
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www.orcabook.com
This Canadian Publisher of "quality books for children and young
adults" provides free downloadable (pdf format) teaching guides
for many of the books it publishes. Go to their web sit and
click on Teaching Guides on the sidebar. I will be adding a
notation to the book lists to indicate which books have these
guides.
Orca Book Publishers is also actively seeking new work by
authors and illustrators. Please support them by buying
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www.canteach.ca/elementary/novel.html
A collection of novel and picture book
activities for K to grade 4 students. There are some gems
here and lots of fun stuff, but there is also some "fluff". |
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www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
The following is a direct quote from the CyberGuides
web site:
"CyberGuides are supplementary,
standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on
core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and
teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may
be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on
California
Language Arts Content Standards...."
The quality and usefulness of these guides varies, but it is
definitely worth a look. |
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Minstrel in the Tower
One of my own web projects.
These projects were developed as models for designing online literature projects that
would integrate
technology and Language Arts outcomes. |
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More authors are creating personal web
sites that have lots of good ideas for teachers, interactive
activities for students, interviews that provide insights into the
writing process and more. Here is a list of the best IMHO (in my
humble opinion for the non-chat-roomers). If your favourite author
site isn't here, drop me an email (literari@litalive.ca)
explaining why it should be included.
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Jan Brett
Loads of stuff for the kids to do: "2,734 pages of free
activities, coloring pages, and projects".
Lovable Hedgie welcomes the kiddies and Jan offers a teaching pack
for teachers or librarians. You have to write her to request
this (the address is at the bottom of the page). |
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Paulette Bourgeois
Well, actually this is Franklin's site.
Lots of fun for the little guys. |
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Mem Fox
A beautifully designed site that uses
"chapters" for links to a variety of great stuff. Check out
Mem's blogs. |
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Aaron Shepherd
Lots of advice and tips. I love the
comment under the Parent Page: "Yes to reading, no to TV!" |
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Sheldon Oberman
This simply designed site may not have much for
bells and whistles, but it is chock full of wonderful how-tos,
support for parents and teachers, plays, articles and "stories
from my life". Unfortunately we have lost this
multi-talented man; Mr. Oberman passed away on March 26 2004).
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Chris Van Allsburg
Just what you would expect from the this whimsical author:
a fun Flash into and interactive stuff for the kids. |
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Charlotte Zolotow
A rich site, loving created and maintained by
Charlotte's daughter to honor of Charlotte's 85th birthday on June
26, 2000. |
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There is an abundance of teaching resources on
the Internet. Here is a small selection:
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www.2Learn.ca
This is the premier site for all Alberta teachers.
Here you will find teacher resources, tutorials, online tools, projects and much more.
Be prepared to spend some time here as the site is huge! |
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www.media-awareness.ca
The definitive site for resources and support
for teaching media and information literacy to young people.
This resource is very helpful for meeting the mandate to include
media text in literacy instruction. |
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www.cln.org/index.html
The Community Learning Network
describes itself as "a site designed to help K-12
teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Here you’ll find
over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free
resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search.....You’ll
also find links to online teacher development (Pro-D) and online
K-12 courses." |
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www.cssd.ab.ca/tech/otn
This is the portal for award
winning Calgary Catholic projects
that integrate technology into core subjects.
While the projects reflect Alberta curriculum outcomes,
they could be easily adapted for other curriculum
standards.
These projects were created by classroom teachers with support
from the technology team and core curriculum team leaders. They
were also awarded Canada Schoolnet Grassroots
funding.
Unfortunately this funding has been discontinued and the teachers who created
the original projects have lost local support and funding as well. Because
of this some of the projects may be out of date. |
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http://members.shaw.ca/libconn/
This site explains the Library Connections
process that has
been used to promote reading
in several Calgary Catholic schools under the guidance of
Michelle Hayden. Visit this site to learn how to start your
own Library Connections project to encourage your students' love
of literature. |
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