Web+Resources

Various student activities to print or save; lesson plans; Smartboard/projector activities: [|www.readwritethink.com]

More Websites related solely to ELA can be found on our [|ELA Curriculum page] from the SRSD Website.

Pearson's Literacy In Action Web Site has a [|sample of a grade 4 web book] that you can use if you are teaching the What is Courage unit.


 * Web 2.0 tools** are websites that allow you and your students more "2-way" interactivity. They are "2nd generation" sites that are more robust and allow you to create and post content easier than ever before. The representing and speaking strands of the ELA curriculum can come alive when students have authentic opportinities to share their work with a global audience, or even a private audience just a little larger than the classroom walls. The viewing and peer review that can occur in a classroom where the teacher uses Web 2.0 tools to allow students to create and share often has a new motivation that is real to our students' lives in and out of the classroom.

A comprehensive site that includes videos, a powerpoint, and an amazing list of tools near the bottom can be found on one of Donna DesRoches' Wiki's that she uses for teacher professional development in Living Sky School Division.

Some of my favorites are [|BubbleShare], [|Flixn], [|SlideShare], and [|RockYou].

Whenever I am looking for a way to use one of these tools I visit [|Kathy Cassidy's Gr. 1 Blog] to see how she has integrated these tools in her classroom.

=Teacher Suggested Useful Websites=

//Word to the wise: Ensure when you copy the URL that it does not include https:// as that is already part of the External Link address portion (It took me a bit to figure out that one!) Sorry none of the links are "Teacher Made", I only know how to Steal!//