Classroom+Websites

Looking for a good website for webquest, creating rubrics, and much more try: http://www.4teachers.org. You will be asked to registar, the important part is your area zip code. This site is maintained by a university with federal funds and they are tracking its use for continued funding, you won't be hit with mail and updates.

=**MORE Literacy Web Sites to Check Out:**=

The following is a list compiled by Edward Little HIgh School Library and Teaching Staff. These sites have many useful ideas, find one or a few that you like and work for you, stick with it or you'll go crazy trying to dig through and oraganize everything.

[|College of William and Mary] Great links to strategies for reading in specific content areas.

[|Critical Reading] Fundamentals of critical reading and effective writing.

[|Enhance Learning With Technology] Using graphic organizers to enhance learning.

[|eMINTS] Professional development by educators: Teaching tips & links to reading in the content areas.

[|Glencoe.com] Reading in the content areas: strategies for success.

[|Greece Central School District] Scaffolding students' interactions with texts.

[|Holt, Rinehart, & Winston] Reading strategies for the Social Studies classroom.

[|Interdisciplinary Reading] Reading strategies for content area reading.

[|Justreadnow.com] Reading as a strategic activity: effective reading strategies with classroom examples and lesson plans.

[|Lexile.com] Lexile Framework for Reading: matching readers to appropriate texts.

[|Literacy & Learning] Literacy strategies & lesson plans for reading in the content areas.

[|Literacy Matters: Text] Links to strategies and lesson plans for working with text structure.

[|Literacy Matters: Tools] Links to teaching tools for reading and learning strategies.

[|Literacy: Principals Partnership] Research brief with links on launching a school-wide program to promote student literacy across the curriculum.

[|Literacy Web] Literacy topics and links from the Literacy Web at the University Of Connecticut: Tons of information.

[|Litside.Alaska] Four reading strategies to use with your students.

[|Madison County, AL School Dept.] Reading strategies for Gr. 9-12.

[|Montgomery County (MD) Schools] Reading in Science: strategies & information.

[|NCTE. org] Professional development articles about helping teens to read well.

[|Prince George County Public Schools] Strategies for reading across the content areas.

[|ReadingQuest.org] Making sense in social studies.

[|Somers Central School District] Staff development: reading in the content areas: information and suggestions for lesson plans.

[|Teachers' Corner/Omaha Public Schools] Secondary content area reading strategies.