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Ms. Rhonda Thompson's Literacy Homepage


 

• Word Recognition Skills and Strategies: http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/teach/rec.html,gives you an overview of how words are recognized by using strategies and the skills you must have.
• Understanding the Primary Role of Word Recognition in the Reading Process: Synthesis of Research on Beginning Reading: http://idea.uoregon.edu/~ncite/documents/techrep/tech15.html, very long read, but some good information on the early recognition of words in primary students.
• Teaching Word-Identification Skills and Strategies: A Balanced Approach: http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/teach/, a step-by-step approach for teachers to learn how to teach word-identifciation skills and strategies.

• Indiana State University: Instructional Strategies for Improving Word Recognition Skills: http://www.indstate.edu/soe/blumberg/reading/rd-word.html, lists different approaches for helping your students develop word recognition skills.

• Questia: Word Recognition in Literacy: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=35390142, lengthy, but some good material. This is an online book.

• Fluency Instruction: http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/reading_first1fluency.html, is an overview of fluency instruction, with activities, modeling, questions you have, and scientific research about fluency instruction.
• Partnership for Reading: Fluency Instruction: http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/explore/fluency.html, what fluency is and highlights from the evidence based-research on fluency instruction.
• Pacific Resources for Education and Learning: A Focus on Fluency:http://www.prel.org/products/re_/fluency-1.htm, very good website on what fluency is and how to build it.
• Reading and Technology: Fluency Instruction: http://www.mrsdell.org/reading/fluency.html, includes readers theater, books online, and PowerPoints
• Scholastic: 5 Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency: http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/teachstrat/readingfluencystrategies.htm, using modeling, repeated readings, phrased reading, enlisting tutors, and readers theater.

• Resource Room: Comprehension: http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/index.asp, contains ideas for word parts, understanding phrases, main/big idea, using signal words, and ideas using specific reading materials too.
• Reading Comprehension: http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/compre.htm, has text comprehension instruction, comprehension strategies instruction, and websites for comprehension practice.
• ReadingLady.com: Comprehension: http://www.readinglady.com/Comprehension/index.html, has 2 links for comprehension: exact from strategies that work and study guide for strategies that work.
• How to Improve Reading Comprehension: http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/%7Edon/Study/7read.html, includes 12 key tips on how to improve reading comprehension.
• Literacy, Information and Technology in Education (LITE): Enhancing Components of Comprehensive Literacy
  Using the Internet in Kindergarten - Grade 3 http://www.lite.iwarp.com/complit.html, online course presented by Julie Coiro for SERC's Literacy Initiative in Connecticut. Provides several examples of online activities to explore for use with K-3 students.

• ProTeacher: Vocabulary: http://www.proteacher.com/070169.shtml# , has links to numerous vocabulary instructional ideas such as vocabulary words, word central, vocabulary games, 10 best vocabulary learning tips, unfolding meaning, and where do we come from.
• Vocabulary on the Internet: http://ec.hku.hk/vec/vocab/vocint.htm, has links and ideas for vocabulary instruction using vocabulary strategies, vocabulary websites, word a day, quizes and games, and strange words.
• Alliant Internet University: Favoriate Websites: Vocabulary Development: http://academic.alliant.edu/mbutler/body/web_vocabulary.htm,this website contains a lot of links for vocabulary instruction with ESL students, along with some spelling instructional websites
• Resource Room: Multisensory Vocabulary Guidelines and Activities http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/vocabactivities.asp, a clarifying step-by-step guide to teaching vocabulary and activities to use while teaching.
• Phonics Link: http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/phonics%5Flink/phonics.html, uses a systematic approach to vocabulary instruction.

• Literacy Matters: Reading and Writing in the Content Areas eWorkshop:Teacher Lessons: http://www.literacymatters.org/lessons/eworkshop2.htm, contains links and ideas for instruction of literacy using eworkshops.
• Global Classroom: Project Archives: http://www.globalclassroom.org/,has online projects of excellent examples of international communication efforts that engage students in a variety of reading and writing activities/projects using technology.
• TeachNet.com: LangArts: Reading: http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/reading/bookrepts1.html,this site offers more than 340 ideas for alternative wats to make books reports, including many that require writing.
• Teachers & Writers Collaborative: http://www.twc.org/, connections between writing and reading literature that generate new ideas and materials.
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE): http://www.iste.org/, this website contains articles from Learning and Leading with Technology that contains many practical ideas and suggestions across the curriculum.

• TeachNet.com: LangArts: Writng: http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/writing/index.html,this site offers ideas and lessons on all types of writings.
• Angel Fire: http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/,gives you the ABC's of the writing process and ideas to incorporate with writing.
• Writing Process Links: http://www.mckinneyisd.net/Campuses/school_websites/mcneil/curriculum/4th/Writing/writing_process_links.htm, gives you 6 links to great writings ideas for students using online resources.
• Electronic MagaZEEN: writing: http://earthvision.asu.edu/~maya/e-zeen/, E-zeens provide valid reasons for students to engage in a variety of original writing activities.
• Cleveland State University: The Writing Center: http://www.csuohio.edu/writingcenter/writproc.html, offers writing help online, writing across the curriculum, the writing process, and links to many writing resources.

• Education World:  25 Ideas to Motivate Young Readers:  http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson035.shtml
  Excellent strategies for motivating readers submitted by Pizza Hut's BOOKIT! Reading Incentive Program.  The strategies are active and would appeal to children across a span of grade levels. 
• Teachers.Net: Motivational Reading Programs: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/article27.html, excellent article on SSR, and how to motivate children not just to read, but to love to read.
• Motivational Ideas: Children's Book Week and National Library Week: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/bookweek.htm, this site contains a list of excellent ideas to motivate reading such as creating book covers, bulletin boards, using lunch menus, and creating bumper stickers.
• Youth Change: Motivation Newsletter: http://www.youthchg.com/nws3moti.html, not only includes ideas for reading motivation, but also for just unmotivated students in general.
• ProTeacher.com: Motivation Children: http://www.proteacher.net/cgi-bin/asrchwrap.cgi?string=motivation&number=0, contains a list of 30 ideas to motivate children in all types of ways.

• Reading Strategies: http://members.tripod.com/%7Eemu1967/readstrat.htm, EXCELLENT
• Reading and Technology: http://www.mrsdell.org/reading/index.html
• Native Americans in the Natural World from N.C.: http://its.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/native/native.html, a 5th grade webquest to use in Social Studies.
• Cyber Guides: Grades 4-5: http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy45.html, EXCELLENT list of webquests to use with 5th grade reading books.
• The Literacy Web: Grades 5-6 Webquests: http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/56webqu.htm, EXCELLENT website with a list of webquests, and overall information on literacy. I will save this one.
• Write on Reader: http://library.thinkquest.org/J001156/writing.htm, writing ideas website.