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Use an LCD projector, computer and white board to strengthen your literacy lessons - Project shared reading material for read-along
- Project reading-rich websites to expand your library of resources
- Project graphic organizers and templates during guided reading
- Project student writing material for editing and commenting during shared guided writing
- Project concept maps with mindmapping software
- Go to http://www.graphic.org
Use word processing software to support editind of student wdriting in grades 3 and up - In gr. 3 use different colors and fonts for students to comment on each other's writing (red=punctuation, green=mispelling, yellow=sentence structure, etc.)
- In gr. 4 and up use the "track changes" in Microsoft Word
- Go to http://www.microsoft.com/education/WordTutorial.aspx for help
Participate in ready-made collaborative projects, motivate students as readers and writers Publish student work on the Internet, students write for a real audience Use a digital camera to create writing activities that accommodate students' multiple intelligences Set up an ongoing video reading and writing studio in you classroom - Allow students to record themselves reading their own writing (tthey will become more fluent and be inspired to edit their work)
- Go to http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired.wired.html for resources on using digital media
Use commercially-available electronic books to expend you classroom library with multimedia reading materials - Support struggling decoders by reading to them
- Motivate reluctant readers with graphics and sounds
- Add to story comprehension with supplementary literacy activities
Create rubrics to assess student literacy learning - http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
- http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html
- http://www.readwritethink.org
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