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web links |
Teaching reading comprehension processes
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The Strategic Literacy initiative—Literacy Learning Cases from WestEd |
Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read |
Alvermann, D. E. (2001) Effective Literacy Instruction for Adolescents |
Kamil, M. (2003). Adolescents and Literacy: Reading for the 21st Century. The Alliance for Excellent Education |
Module II |
The Reading Apprenticeship Framework |
Module III |
The Striving Readers Initiative |
The Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests (GMAT) |
The Degrees of Reading Power |
The Starr Computerized Cloze Procedure |
The National Reading Panel Report |
The Jerry Johns Reading Inventory |
Module IV |
Adolescent Literacy Commission of the International Reading Association: Position Statement |
IRA Position Statement on supporting young adolescents’ literacy learning |
IRA Standards for Middle and High School Literacy Coaches |
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Lots
of reading strategy activities |
| Kittle, P. (2003). Reading
practices as revision strategies. The Quarterly. |
Jim Burke: 101
Things to do before and after reading |
Onlinereadingresources.com:
Scaffolded reading activities |
| Secondary
Content Teacher Reading Strategies |
Teaching
reading strategies |
Teaching
reading strategies |
Secondary
reading strategies |
Jacobs, V. (1999). What
secondary teachers can do to
teach reading. Harvard Education Letter |
Teaching
reading comprehension to LD students |
Cziko, C. (1998). Reading
happens in your mind, not your mouth. California English. |
Christine Cziko: Reading
process analysis |
Curtis, M., & Longo, A. Teaching
vocabulary to adolescents to improve comprehension. Readingonline. |
Anderson-Inman, L, & Horney, M. Electronic
books: Reading and studying with supportive resources. Readingonline. |
Willis, A., & Johnson, J. "A
horizon of possibilities": A critical framework for transforming
multiethnic literature instruction. Readingonline. |
Balajthy, E. Text-to-speech
software for helping struggling readers. Readingonline. |
Bean, T. An
update on reading in the content areas: Social constructionist dimensions.
Readingonline. |
Graves, M. Fostering
high levels of reading and learning in secondary students. Readingonline. |
Ash,G. Teaching
readers who struggle: A pragmatic middle school framework. Readingonline. |
Coiro, J. Reading
comprehension on the Internet. Readingonline. |
Imagine That! Playing with Genre through Newspapers and Short Stories |
| Thrills and Chills! Using Scary Stories to Motivate Students to Read |
Units that focus on reading strategies |
Coiro, J. Unit:
Heroes around us: Application of Internet reading comprehension
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Unit:
A high-interest novel helps struggling readers confront bullying
in schools |
Unit:
Word maps: Developing critical and analytic thinking about literary
characters |
Critical
reading: Two stories, two authors, same plot? |
Unit:
Reading response in hypertext: Making personal connections to literature |
Unit:
Teaching plot structures through short stories |
Unit:
Exploring literacy in cyberspace |
Unit:
Become a character: Adjectives, character traits, and perspective |
Unit:
Spend the day in my shoes: Exploring the role of perspective in
narrative |
Unit:
Name that character: Discussing summary and interpretation using
chapter titles |
Unit:
What did they say? Dialect in The Color Purple |
Unit:
Unlocking the underlying symbolism and themes in a dramatic work |
Unit:
Exploring disability through multimedia and B-D-A reading strategy |
Unit: Teaching Nonfiction |
Teaching poetry |
Online
Poetry Classroom |
Elaine
Showlter, Teaching Literature [chapter on teaching
poetry] |
Academy
of American Poets [resources] |
Poetry
Society of America [resources] |
About
Poetry [lots of links] |
Lloyd, C. V. (2003). Song Lyrics as Texts to Develop Critical Literacy. Readingonline. |
Intertextuality and Poetry |
Teaching Poetry: A Forum with Hugo McCann |
Library of Congress: 1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions |
Library of Congress: Enhancing a Poetry Unit with American Memory |
Dealing with issues of vocabulary in a high school World Literature course |
| Poetry workshop web resources |
Poets.org: Tips for teaching poetry |
Poetry unit: Conflict and War |
Unit: Poetry writing |
Unit: Reading poetry for pleasure |
Poets.org: Poetry lessons |
Poets.org: Essays on teaching poetry |
Teaching Authurian legends |
Poetry Teachers |
Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems |
Acrostic Poems |
Diamante Poems |
| NCTE Classroom Notes: The Celebration Poem |
NCTE Classroom Notes: Poetry Models Expand and Inspire |
NCTE: Teaching poetry: links/resources/books |
GURU English: Interpreting Poetry |
Poetry Class |
Poetry Magic |
The Poetry Society |
eServer: Poetry |
Creating Poetry Videos |
Online poems/poet links |
Modern
and Contemporary American Poetry [lots of links by poet] |
30
Days of Poetry: Studying different types of poems |
Links
to poets |
African-American
poets |
Anthology
of Modern American Poets |
American
Verse Project |
Twentienth
Century British Poetry |
Poets
and Writers |
Poetry
Daily |
American
Verse Project [organized by poet] |
Favorite
Poem Project |
Poet's
Corner |
Poetry
collections |
Poetry
from around the world |
Light
& Dust Poetry Anthology |
The
Poem Tree anthology |
Contemporary
Poetry Review [online poets] |
Bartleby:
Classical British and American poetry |
Poetry
of the Harlem Renaissance |
Electronic
Poetry [Lots of poetry links]
|
The
Internet Poetry Archive
|
Online
Poetry Classroom: 341 Great Poems to Teach
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Poets
and Writers
|
University
of Virginia [online texts --stories, novels, and poems--]
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E-Poets.net
[also audio]
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PBS:
Bill Moyers: Fooling with Words [also audio]
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Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry
Festival, 2004
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Poetry
180: A poem a day for American high schools
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| Poetry
on the Web
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UpWordsPoetry
[high school students’ poems]
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Google
[ online poetry sites]
|
Poetry
archives |
Bartleby.com:
poems |
Yahoo
[different poetry magazines with poems for adolescents] |
University
of Toronto: Representative Poetry Online |
Native
American Poetry |
Poems
that go: Online visual poems |
Poets.org: Poems to teach |
Norton Poets online |
Dial-a-Poem: links to poetry audio files |
World War I Poetry |
Emily Dickenson Archive |
Online audio poems |
Garrison
Keiller: A Writer's Almanac [daily poetry reading] |
Digital
Audio Archive [liteature and poetry] |
Audiobooksforfree.com |
Wiredforbooks.org |
Project
Gutenberg: E-books |
HarperAudio |
Favorite
Poem Project |
Academy
of American Poets: Listening Booth |
UCBerkeley
Library: Audio files |
Bard
College: Conjunctions [contemporary writers] |
Electronic
Poetry Center: Soundpoetry |
The
Internet Poetry Archive |
Sound
Poetry |
Random
House |
Poetryhifi |
The
Missouri Review |
The
Cortland Review |
| Poetry jams/performances |
poetryslam.com |
An
Incomplete History of Slam |
DefPoetryJam |
PBS:
Bill Moyers: Fooling with Words [poets performing] |
Mr.
Donn Lesson Plans: Conducting Poetry Slams |
Apple
iLife: Virtual Poetry Slam |
Poetry Magazines/Journals/Criticism |
Electronic
Poetry Center [lists of poetry magazines] |
The
American Poetry Review
Contemporary
Poetry Review
|
The
Boston Review |
Poetry
Magazine |
The
Literary Review |
Webdelsol |
Slope |
The
Blue Moon Review |
Poetry lessons |
Poetry
lessons for 12 familiar poems |
Figurative
language [Lots of links] |
Webquest: Ars
Poetica |
Unit: Discovering
Robert Frost |
Understanding
the Basics of Poetry |
Hundley, J. (2004). Uncovering
truths beneath a found poem. The Quarterly. |
Wilhelm, J. (2003). Poetry
doing hard and healthy work: A poetpourri of ideas from the Miane
Writing Project. The Quarterly. |
Jester, J. (2003). Of
paint and poetry: Strengthening literacy through art. The Quarterly. |
Woods, K. (2002).
Channeling emotion: One way to make poems out of feelings. The
Quarterly. |
| Discovering
poetic form and structure using concrete poems |
Behind
the mask: Exploring cultural and self through art and poetry |
Graffiti
wall: Discussing and responding to literature using graphics |
Yale/New
Haven Teachers: Poetry units |
Webquest:
A Life and Journey through Poetry |
Webquest: Poetry
pursuit |
Teaching
the Beats Poets |
Unit: Teaching
found poems |
Virtual
Poetry Workshop [lots of activities] |
Young
Poets: Analyzing figurative language |
Teaching
poetry lessons |
Poetry
Forge: Poetry Tools in Action |
The
English Teacher: Teaching Basic Poetry |
Online
Poetry Classroom: Lesson plans on poetry |
Teaching
Native American Poetry |
Outta
Ray's Head [Lots of poetry lessons] |
Poetry
lessons for middle school students |
WhyPoetryWhat:
Internet poetry for middle school students |
Teaching
dramatic poetry |
Lesson: Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet |
Lesson: Poetry of World War I |
Lesson: Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" |
Lesson: Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess" |
Lesson: Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy |
Lesson: Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: the Sweep of the Universe |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Studying the Harlem Renaissance |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture through Art and Poetry |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Discovering a Passion for Poetry with Langston Hughes |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Discovering Poetic Form and Structure using Concrete Poems |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Poetry: Sound and Sense |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Different perspectives on America in poetry |
Lesson: Introducing Metaphors through Poetry |
Lesson: Introduction to Modernist Poetry |
Lesson: Emily Dickenson poems |
Lesson: Analyzing Emily Dickenson's letters |
Lesson: The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You |
Lesson: Using visual poetry |
Lesson: Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes |
Lesson: A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic? |
Lesson: Japanese Poetry |
Lesson: The World of Haiku |
Writing Poetry |
Teachers
and Writers Collaborative: Virtual Poetry Workshop: Modules on writing
poetry
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| Poetryexpress:
Teaching poetry writing |
Young
Poets: Resources
|
Words
Work Network [resources on writing poetry] |
Writing Haiku poetry
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schoollink.org/csd/pages/engl/haiku.html
haiku.insouthsea.co.uk/
home1.pacific.net.sg/~loudon/poetry.htm
www.gardendigest.com/poetry/haiku4.htm
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Writing
narrative poetry
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Writers
in the Schools [poets teaching poetry writing] |
Teachers
and Writers Collaborative: Poets on Poetry |
Local
writers' organizations [for contacting local writers] |
Teaching Tales, Fables, Folklore, Myths |
Mythology, Fairy Tales, Legends, and Fables |
DMOZ: Open Directory: myths from around the world |
Folklore and mythology from around the world |
The Magic Web: Mythology and Folklore |
About.com: Mythology |
All information about: Mythology |
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts |
Myths and Legends |
Yahoo: Fairy Tales |
Journal of Mythic Art |
Scholastic: Myths, Folktales and Fairy Tales: for Grades 1 - 8 |
Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and Mythology Webring |
SuLaLune: Fairy Tales |
Fairy Tales |
Rick Walton: online fairy tales and fables |
Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies |
Cinderella: Bibliography |
King Arthur |
Aesop’s Fables: Online collection |
Aesop’s Fables: Online collection |
Grimm fairy tales |
National Geographic: Grimm fairy tales |
Animated versions of Grimm fairy tales |
John Flynn: The Hero Myth |
http://saber.towson.edu/~flynn/heroes.html
http://saber.towson.edu/~flynn/swordsor.html
http://saber.towson.edu/~flynn/herofan.html
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Fantasy/Science Fiction Literature |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America |
Webquest: Fantasy: A Window to Literature |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers |
Recommended Science Fiction |
Fantasy Readers: online fantasy stories |
House of Fantasy: fantasy writers |
Fantasy Epic site |
Science Fiction site |
Council for the Literature of the Fantastical |
Online Fairy Tales |
Google: Fairy Tales: lots of online fairy tales |
Wikipedia: Little Red Riding Hood |
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The
Encyclopedia Mythica
|
American
Folkfore
|
American
Folkfore: Myths and Legends
|
Aesop’s
Fables
|
Tales
of Wonder
|
Myths
and Legends
|
Web
English Teacher: Teaching Greek mythology
|
Creation
myths
|
Regional
Folklore and Myths
|
Special
Topics in Folklore and Myths
|
PBS Program: George
Lucus and the Power of Myth
|
Study guides: Edith
Hamilton’s Mythology
|
| The
Hero’s Journey
|
Web English Teacher: Teaching
the Illiad/Odessey
|
Beowulf
[lessons]
|
Snow
White: Lessons for studying different versions
|
Cinderella:
Lessons for studying different versions
|
| Scholastic:
The Myths Brainstorming Machine [students construct myths]
|
Making
Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain
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Unit: Teaching
the epic through ghost stories |
teaching mythology |
Common Visions, Common Voices: folklore from different cultures |
Classical Mythology : accompanying textbook materials |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Teaching myths in The Way to Rainy Mountain |
Detective, Mystery, and Suspense Fiction |
ReadWriteThink lesson: What's in a Mystery? |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Writing scary stories |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Teaching Epic through Ghost Stories |
Webquest: You Are the Detective |
The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
The Original Sherlock Holmes Stories |
Dashiell Hammett: Continental Detective Agency |
Hammett's life, works, and legacy as a writer. |
The Dorothy L. Sayers Society |
Clueless.com: mysteries on the Web |
Crime fiction: The New York Times |
Crime Fiction Report |
Crimeculture |
The Geography of Crime Fiction |
Golden Gate Mysteries |
Classic Mystery and Detection |
Gumshoes, Sleuths and Snoopers |
Mystery Ink |
Mystery Readers International |
MysteryNet.Com |
Sisters in Crime |
Women Mystery and Detective Fiction Writers and the Rise of Feminism |
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Tales of Wonder |
Sources for the Analysis and Interpretation of Folk and Fairy Tales |
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at USM |
Folklore, Myth and Legend |
The Camelot Project |
Fairy Tale Group Page |
Hans Christian Anderson: Fairy Tales and Stories |
Fairy Tales: Audio Texts |
Brave New World @ Web English Teacher |
Brave New World Webquest |
MyRead: Strategies for Teaching Reading in the Middle Years |
Four Reading Strategies for High School Students |
Reading Skills, Teaching Today, Glencoe Online |
Helping Struggling Readers 9-12 |
Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well |
Famous Poetry Online |
eMule.com: Poetry Archives |
Poetry Critical : Online Poetry Workshop |
The Princeton Poetry Project |
The Poetry Archive |
Kalliope Poetry Workshop Exercises |
Intertextuality and Poetry |
Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance |
Poetry 180 |
Hypertext Poetry |
Creative Nonfiction |
Bruce Dobler's Creative Nonfiction Compendium Definition and list of anthologies. |
Breaking into Creative Nonfiction A professional writer offers a definition and strategies. |
Caption, Scenario, Word: Classroom Approaches to Creative Nonfiction Three approaches to creative nonfiction, including prompts and discussion. |
What is Creative Nonfiction Definition and guidelines. |
Seabiscuit An introduction to the book, movie, and historical themes within the text. |
Analyzing Newspapers |
Lessons for 10-12 graders on reading for bias in newspapers and other nonfiction texts. |
Lesson Plan Unit: Journalistic Writing |
Lesson Plan Unit: the Print Media |
'Retale' Value: Exploring Plot Similarities in Fiction and Nonfiction Stories Students explore 7 basic plot lines. They compare them with newspaper articles and with fiction they are familiar with. |
Teaching Nonfiction Books |
Nonfiction Book Report: Adding Interest and Relevance through Choice |
Nonfiction Oral Book Report |
Nonfiction Literature Circles |
Nonfiction Book: Evaluation Form |
Nonfiction Book Review |
Timelines and Texts: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction
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Finding the Science Behind Science Fiction through Paired Readings
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Using THIEVES to Preview Nonfiction Texts
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Inventing and Presenting Unit 1: Analyzing Nonfiction and Inventing Solutions |
Scholastic: Teaching with Nonfiction |
Book TV
This Web site complements Book TV, a C-SPAN2 network program that explores nonfiction books, including biographies and history titles. |
K-W-L Chart
This resource, from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, provides information about the K-W-L chart, a comprehension strategy typically used with nonfiction material. |
Teaching the Essay as a Form/Genre |
Pittsburgh Teachers Institute’s Curriculum Units Online: Understanding Nonfiction Genres |
The Big, Bad Wolf . . . Is This a Fact? |
Putting the Truth in Writing: Exploring the Genre of Nonfiction Writing in the Language Arts Classroom
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Lesson: Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction |
The Power of the Real World: Nonfiction |
Frederick Douglass: The Reality of Slavery
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Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" and Beyond
|
Mark Twain: Two Ways of Seeing a River
|
The English Teacher: Teaching the Analysis of Non-Fiction |
Essays/Nonfiction Texts |
Non-Fiction (High School) List of non-fiction texts that are appropriate for high school students. |
High School Non-Fiction Teen Zone’s list of non-fiction texts selected by and for high school students. |
Best Nonfiction Books NCTE list of recommended nonfiction books for students and teachers. |
George Mason University's Nonfiction Universe |
Reality Bytes: Non-fiction about teens, for teens |
Books R4 Teens: Nonfiction |
Harpers |
The Atlantic |
The New Yorker |
The Nation |
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