Lift Up Through Literacy

February 2, 2009Session II, 3:00-6:00

Genesee Intermediate School DistrictSharon Armstrong

Lisa SmithMelissa Hyatt

Welcome Back!Turn and TalkGroup Share

Tools For Today

Functional

Literacy

Instruction to

Generate

Higher-level

Thinking

The Foundation of Knowledge

Technology

Data and Decision Making

Instructional Strategies

Create Your Own Wiki

http://pbwiki.com/

Scavenger Hunt

Your Requests

Book List by Reading Level:

http://www.teachersfirst.com/100books.cfm

– Go to Flight wiki

– Assessing and Understanding—Reading

– Then Tools for Takeoff

 Real Life Writing: memoirs

• Student models of writing

Consolidating and Reflecting—Writing

• Tools for Takeoff

http://writingfix.com/

Quick Grammar exercises

• From Lift Up web page:

– Paths for Literacy: Writing Development

Web tools–Click on the OWL at Purdue–Then go to the OWL family of sites–From there you can search their database for grammar exercises

Here’s the site address:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/index.html#exercises

Also in Writing Development• Resources• MISD literacy page• Click on any of the categories to find resources for many topics

Remember the slide from last week?

Make your own WORDLE document.

http://wordle.net/create

Break Time

Our FavoritesStorageikeepBookmarks.comdelicious.comBlinklist.com

Blogging

Wordpress.com

Edublogs.org

Melissa’s

How do teacher’s use it?

Cool Sites

BBC

Teaching Literature

Tools for Teachers

Teachers First

How is technology being used?

Wordle

Sharing

Zoho

Alan November

Time to Explore!

Helpful Sites by content areas…

Cross Curricular

Science/History/.Social Studies

Social Studies

All Subjects

Interactive Quizzes

BBC

Rules of Soccer

Quia

ACT/MME

Exam Skills

MDE Website

ACT Website

Special Education

Resource 1

Resource 2

Coming Soon!

GrammarQuizzes

Quizzes 2Quizzes 3

Games

Math

Printables

Business and Technology

Where are we headed?

Worth a look…

OneStop

Mel

Stick to School

SpellingRules

Rhyme

ELA

Resource 1Pronunciation

Printablesodds-n-ends

planning

Jeopardy GamesCreate your own

Science

Resources

Resources 2

Resources 3

Resources 4

Literacy and Science

Literacy and Science 2

Resources 5

Resources 6

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SlideShareToday’s Presentation:

Wrap-up, Survey & Conclusion6 Words…http://www.danpink.com/archives/2008/05/six-word-stories-can-say-lots

Think of a six-word story that tells how you feel about literacy, technology and your teaching.