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Book Cover Creator - ReadWriteThink
Grades
2 to 8In the Classroom
Have students write and illustrate a book for younger students, then create a full dust jacket to give the book a professional look. Share the stories during a meet the author/book signing event with a younger class. Present the books to the younger class library so they can be enjoyed over and over. OR use the full dust cover as a book report template. As always, preview and create a sample cover to decide what options you want your students to use. NOTE: Make sure you allow enough time to create and print the cover in one session, as there is no way to save work.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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A Way with Words - Mary Beth Bauernschub
Grades
5 to 8--identify words invented by William Shakespeare.
--interpret the meaning of words through drawing.
--identify words by interpreting drawings.
--analyze the meaning of a line or phrase.
--pantomime to communicate the meaning of a line or phrase.
--interpret pantomime to identify a line or phrase.
--write a short story using Shakespeare invented words, lines, and phrases.
In the Classroom
Intersperse these ideas as you read a play, giving your students a chance to exercise multiple intelligences.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Trading Card Maker - BigHugeLabs.com
Grades
4 to 12In the Classroom
Upload and tag your photo, type information, and print cards. Download finished card to your computer. Use for book reports for literature circles with each student in the group making a card for a different character in the book. This is also an excellent idea for special occasions for special people: mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, school nurse, school secretary, school custodian, favorite aunt, or anyone else! Be sure to print onto cover stock and laminate (if possible). What fabulous (and memorable) gifts. Check out the Big Huge Labs educator account. Easily pre-register students to avoid creating logins, view and download their creations, and view the site advertisement free. You will find information about the Educator Account here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Giver (webquest) - Amy Cordy, Jennifer Fouty, Marybeth Malone, and Ekaterina Rohal
Grades
6 to 10In the Classroom
If you do not have enough time for an entire webquest, you may still want to do some of the activities or use the links with your class. A webquest is also an excellent independent activity for your more able students or for a gifted class, allowing you time to work in smaller groups with your struggling students. Bring in laptops for the webquest students to work in the room with you, if you have them available. Consider upgrading from paper to digital copies of the work for students to turn in afterward. Google Docs reviewed here or one of many creative. collaborative web 2.0 tools reviewed in the TeachersFirst Edge would be a great way for students to complete everything without killing trees and without creating a mess of papers on your desk later.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Native Tech: Native American Technology and Art - Tara Prindle
Grades
3 to 12In the Classroom
Give students a scavenger hunt to learn the basics about the culture you are studying, then allow them to try some of the interactive games, ass based on the content of the site. This would be a great way to build background knowledge while studying American history or literature that deals with Native Americans.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Phrasal Verb Drink Dispenser - Cambridge University Press
Grades
4 to 9In the Classroom
Suggest this site to your ESL students preparing for college entrance exams. You may want to mark it in Favorites on a classroom computer for students to practice independently once you have shown them how it works.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ALAN Book Club Online - The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
A great outlet to suggest to your teens who love to read but don't find enough others with similar interests! INclude this as a link from your teacher or school library web site. If you decide to use the web chat feature at school, you may have difficulty getting through filtering on your school network. Pretest this and get tech help, if you plan to have your class "chat" with an author in class on a projector.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Help Teens Be Savvy Surfers - American Library Association
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
A great resource for teachers to use with technology-wild students who need to use solid evaluation criteria to ground their internet usage decisions. You can print out the file as a handout or use the links as part of an activity prior to starting a research project.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Douglas Harper
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
Mark this one in the Favorites on classroom computers or in links on your English teacher web page. Feature a word a week on a projector before you start your lesson to help students think about the evolution of language.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Medieval Times Reality Adventure - Joan Weathers- 6th grade teacher
Grades
5 to 8In the Classroom
Review the process carefully to see if you need to adapt it in your situation. The teacher who designed this uses clips from a film (Ever After) and specific software packages (Inspiration, Publisher). There are certainly alternate ways to accomplish the same tasks if you do not have access to these exact resources. If you do not have as much time, you may want to use some portion of this webquest with your students. It is well-packaged for use in toto, if you wish!One alternative would be having students turn in work via Google Docs, reviewed here, allowing for easy feedback from the teacher and no messy papers to grade.
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Mark's Guide to Whose Line is it Anyway
Grades
7 to 12In the Classroom
This can be a great lesson starter, particularly on those dreary days when kids don't want to work. For lower level kids, it is a brain exercise for such things as the alphabet game (which is more difficult than it first seems!). For higher level kids, you can substitute characters from literature with a situation from the story itself or from history with imaginative "what if" dialogue for actual events.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Literature for Children: A Digital Library - State University System of Florida
Grades
1 to 8In the Classroom
If you know of an older piece of children's lit that is out of print, this is a way to find the text to read to your children. You can also search by subject to find stories on a certain topic. Why not use some of these texts to highlight parts of speech or main ideas of paragraphs on an interactive whiteboard?Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Topics Online Magazine - Sandy and Thomas Peters
Grades
4 to 8In the Classroom
Use these articles as part of your study of nations of the world or as models for student writing in your own classroom. With digital pictures, you can create a similar "magazine" format in PowerPoint or on paper, now that your students have a model to explore. Students can research their own ethnic heritage or learn about a culture that is totally unfamiliar.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Three Little Pigs - - Eva Skrampalova
Grades
4 to 8In the Classroom
Be sure to visit the helpful teacher's page. The page includes step-by-step directions, standards, hints for teachers and additional links. A well-detailed rubric is also included. Use this webquest as part of your unit on farm animals or use selected activities if you do not have time for the full webquest.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Interviews With Children's Book Authors and Illustrators - Reading Rockets/ WETA
Grades
2 to 8In the Classroom
Grab a projector and bring the author right into your classroom, or turn down the lights and listen to what she has to say before you start reading. You can also create a shortcut to this page right on the computer desktop and allow students to "visit with" them as a center in your classroom. One great student writing prompt: Which author is most like you? Maybe even ask students to write about their own writing process on your class blog after sharing some of the interviews. A good resource for a class blog is edublogs, reviewed here. Libarians may want to set up a kiosk with this web site opened for children when they come in. They will LOVE this site!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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English Daily Idioms
Grades
3 to 12In the Classroom
Put a link on your teacher web page or leave the daily idiom open on your computer for students to try. If you are using an interactive whiteboard or projector on any given day, use these as a warm-up in your language arts or ESL class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CRAYON: Create Your Own Newspaper - David Maher
Grades
7 to 12In the Classroom
A great way to get students involved with the news on an intimate basis!! Teachers can also create a classroom newspaper for parents and others to access. Check on your district policy regarding posting student work to the web. It would be a good idea to limit names to initials and to get written parent permission before setting up accounts. Then use YOUR teacher email account for safety reasons.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Moonlit Road - Craig Dominey
Grades
6 to 9In the Classroom
Reading these stories is a great jump off for an oral story telling project! If you have started to try podcasting, use this as the start of a new story collection on podcasts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Drew's Script-O-Rama Movie Scripts - Drew
Grades
5 to 12In the Classroom
As part of your film-study class or a lit class, ask students to analyze the differences between dialog written in prose and in script form. What does the script do that a book passage cannot? If you do teach film, this site is a MUST link from your teacher web page.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Flickr - Flickr
Grades
5 to 12In the Classroom
Join the site for free (and make sure you turn OFF all the "send me emails" features). Place photos online for all the projects you expect to do with students. They will remain in place for future years. If you wish to, remove them from "public" viewing when you do not need them. Note: You MUST be the actual copyright holder to upload photos to this site, so use your digital camera, NOT downloaded photos from the web! Skills needed: taking and saving digital pictures, location and upload of photo files, "tagging" them so students can a find them, copying the URL of the tagged group or of the collection, and changing the attributes of your uploaded pictures. Find other tools such as Big Huge Labs Captioner or Motivator to use with the photos.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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