Lift Up Through Literacy
February 2, 2009Session II, 3:00-6:00
Genesee Intermediate School DistrictSharon Armstrong
Lisa SmithMelissa Hyatt
Welcome Back!Turn and TalkGroup Share
Tools For Today
Functional
Literacy
Instruction to
Generate
Higher-level
Thinking
The Foundation of Knowledge
Technology
Data and Decision Making
Instructional Strategies
Create Your Own Wiki
http://pbwiki.com/
Scavenger Hunt
Your Requests
Book List by Reading Level:
http://www.teachersfirst.com/100books.cfm
– Go to Flight wiki
– Assessing and Understanding—Reading
– Then Tools for Takeoff
Real Life Writing: memoirs
• Student models of writing
Consolidating and Reflecting—Writing
• Tools for Takeoff
http://writingfix.com/
Quick Grammar exercises
• From Lift Up web page:
– Paths for Literacy: Writing Development
Web tools–Click on the OWL at Purdue–Then go to the OWL family of sites–From there you can search their database for grammar exercises
Here’s the site address:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/index.html#exercises
Also in Writing Development• Resources• MISD literacy page• Click on any of the categories to find resources for many topics
Remember the slide from last week?
Make your own WORDLE document.
http://wordle.net/create
Break Time
Our FavoritesStorageikeepBookmarks.comdelicious.comBlinklist.com
Blogging
Wordpress.com
Edublogs.org
Melissa’s
How do teacher’s use it?
Cool Sites
BBC
Teaching Literature
Tools for Teachers
Teachers First
How is technology being used?
Wordle
Sharing
Zoho
Alan November
Time to Explore!
Helpful Sites by content areas…
Cross Curricular
Science/History/.Social Studies
Social Studies
All Subjects
Interactive Quizzes
BBC
Rules of Soccer
Quia
ACT/MME
Exam Skills
MDE Website
ACT Website
Special Education
Resource 1
Resource 2
Coming Soon!
GrammarQuizzes
Quizzes 2Quizzes 3
Games
Math
Printables
Business and Technology
Where are we headed?
Worth a look…
OneStop
Mel
Stick to School
SpellingRules
Rhyme
ELA
Resource 1Pronunciation
Printablesodds-n-ends
planning
Jeopardy GamesCreate your own
Science
Resources
Resources 2
Resources 3
Resources 4
Literacy and Science
Literacy and Science 2
Resources 5
Resources 6
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SlideShareToday’s Presentation:
Wrap-up, Survey & Conclusion6 Words…http://www.danpink.com/archives/2008/05/six-word-stories-can-say-lots
Think of a six-word story that tells how you feel about literacy, technology and your teaching.