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PUBLIC MARKS from knann with tag "es:language arts"

December 2008

Super Action Comic Maker

Easy to use Comic Creator to inspire story-telling. Choose the background for your Action hero. Use the slider to choose the pose. Add speech bubbles and text. Click next top add up to six frames.

November 2008

BigUniverse.com

Read & Create Children's Picture Books Online - Great authoring tool for creating your own books. Use the library of pictures or upload your own.

Writing Fun by Jenny Eather- helping kids write using text organizers.

Excellent site for different genre examples and organizers. Takes time to get familar with site but worth it. Nice for smartboard as there is a write online feature.

October 2008

On the Tip of My Tongue

Index of Idiomatic expressions, spanish and french equivalents, some cartoon examples, audiory samples, contextual examples

June 2008

Into the Book: Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies

This is an outstanding resource.... Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Your class can watch our engaging 15-minute videos, and try the online interactive activities. Behind the Lesson provides teachers with information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch our 10-minute professional development videos, and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.

Wordle: using word clouds in a lesson

Nice example of how to use wordle in the classroom as a pre-reading strategy.

Past Tense Game

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Help Fernando get to school by typing the past tense of the verb shown on his book.

February 2008

Using Similies

Whole class instruction with interactive activities to use online or download

September 2007

Book Report Sandwich

Online graphic organizer for writing a book report

eWord Game

Companion to textbook Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary but still useful for grades 1-6. Hover over the word or definition to hear it read aloud.

Carl's Corner

Amazing site for K-2 teachers. Topics too numerous to list. Use the left side menu. Loads of printables for your classroom.

Writing notebook"Paragraph unit"Writing a Paragraph topic

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BrainPop movie that explains how to write a paragraph. Great for whole class instruction and then let students review individually.

March 2007

Young Writers Workshop

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This site contains many beautifully illustrated worksheets in pdf format that contain the beginning of a story. More story beginners are added frequently to the site, and students or teachers may submit a student story created with a Meddybemp starter. Students whose stories get published receive a free T-shirt and online publication! Selected students become Young Writers Workshop Published Authors!

ImaginOn Tale Spinner and Team Machine Activities

Five interactive tools for writing in primary classrooms.