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ReadWriteThink.org: Encouraging Reading, Writing, and Thinking across the Curriculum

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ReadWriteThink.org: Encouraging Reading, Writing, and Thinking across the Curriculum

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  1. ReadWriteThink.org: Encouraging Reading, Writing, and Thinking across the Curriculum

  2. ReadWriteThink (http://www.readwritethink.org) is a nonprofit Web site maintained by the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Council of Teachers and English (NCTE), with support from the Verizon Foundation through the Thinkfinity Consortium. Thinkfinity (http://www.thinkfinity.org)is a free, comprehensive digital learning platform, built upon the strength of content partners, who produce a wealth of discipline-specific, standards-based educational resources.

  3. Who’s Behind ReadWriteThink.org? The National Council of Teachers of English The International Reading Association Verizon Thinkfinity

  4. What Does ReadWriteThink.org Have to Offer? • Classroom resources by grade levels • Lists of the most popular resources • RSS feeds, e-mail, sharing, and commenting • Keyword and filter search • Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources • Online Student Interactive Tools

  5. Let’s take a look at how ReadWriteThink.org can be integrated throughout the day!

  6. Morning Meeting ReadWriteThink.org Calendar July 27 The Summer Olympics start today!

  7. Language Arts Chatting About Books Podcast Series Episode 4 — Summer Adventures

  8. Reading and Literature What goes better with summer than baseball? In this lesson plan, students will make connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.

  9. WritingStudents write authentic newspaper stories, including learning about various aspects of newspapers, such as writing an article, online articles, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques in this lesson plan. Interested in applying this knowledge and these skills outside of school?

  10. Writing Since we know children enjoy sharing their thoughts, ideas and opinions in talking with others, encourage them to write these down in a neighborhood newspaper! This activity works in any out-of-school setting. Share the translated version with students and their families who speak Spanish.

  11. Science After researching various natural disasters in this lesson, students share their findings with each other using glogs, or through poster presentations.

  12. Working with Pre-Service Teachers A student teacher observed the glog lesson and expressed concern about using technology with students. S/he hopes to learn more about how to do this successfully.

  13. Strategy GuidesTeaching with Technology • Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy • Online Safety • Reading Online • Teaching With Blogs • Teaching With Podcasts • Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto • Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki • Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi • Teaching With Glogster: Using Virtual Posters in the Classroom

  14. Social Studies/History As a pre-reading visualization activity before reading The Cay by Theodore Taylor, groups choose a Caribbean island to study.  Groups do research on the island of their choosing and create a final product in the format of their choice.  Finally, groups present their research and final product to the rest of the class to share the information they learned through their study. Interested in doing something similar outside of school?

  15. Social Studies/History If children and teens have the opportunity to visit someplace new or if they are interested in particular locations, invite them to create a travel brochure to share information about the place with others. They can draw pictures, use photographs, add maps, and write details about what they see or learn. In the end, they will be creating their own souvenirs!

  16. Mathematics After a read-aloud from the book Math Curse, students create their own word problems with answers. Students solve each other's problems and then use the skills they've learned creating word problems to complete a crossword puzzle.

  17. Health After researching nutrition and analyzing food advertisements, students work in cooperative groups to create their own advertisements for food products. Interested in applying this knowledge and these skills outside of school?

  18. Health Encourage children and teens to make healthful food choices by having them explore the foods they eat and the ways those foods are advertised.

  19. Staff Meeting • Afterschool, I want to share the great resources from ReadWriteThink with my colleagues at our staff meeting. I can share with them: • Standards Alignment • Site Demonstrations • Promotional Materials • Spanish Resources

  20. Educator Involvement at ReadWriteThink.org • Writing lesson plans, sharing teaching ideas, • creating content for an out-of-school audience • Contributing professional development materials • Submitting video, audio or other technologies to • enhance resources • Joining the Review Panel • Sharing their Story

  21. Coming Soon to ReadWriteThink.org!

  22. Mobile Apps • Available later this summer in both iOs and Android • Trading Cards –based on the online interactive tool.

  23. Mobile Apps • Available later this summer in both iOs and Android • Word Mover – based on the online interactive tool.

  24. STEM We are working with our partners at AAAS and Science NetLinks to identify, tag and collect the ReadWriteThink.org that can be used in STEM Literacy.

  25. Find Us and Fan Us! ReadWriteThink.org on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ReadWriteThink.org ReadWriteThink.org on Twitter @RWTnow In the Thinkfinity Community Reading & Language Arts Group Parents & Families Group

  26. Questions? Contact me! Lisa Storm Fink at lfink@ncte.org or @fink_girl on Twitter or Christy Simon at csimon@ncte.org

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