Lucy Calkins' Resource Site

Take a look at this great resource site created by Lucy Calkins and a her team.  This website includes writing samples, reading assessments, common core curriculum resources and ideas for best practice teaching.

We're Off to See the Wizard!

This article provides great ideas of how we can link great literature and movies. Just another way to get our kids to read!

Great Writing Resource Site!

What a great resource to dig deeper into writing.  Check out the Mentor Text icon!

Lester L. Laminack's Website

Here is a link to our presenter on Monday and Tuesday.

Keeping "House" in a Literacy-Rich Classroom

This article, by Ann Williams, has a lot of great ideas in which you might use to encourage students to have more leadership within your literacy room.  I have to say, my fav is the map with the pins...great idea.  These are great ideas to use during those "oddball" times in the day.  Happy Reading!

http://www.choiceliteracy.com/public/1210.cfm

Response to Lit Tech Links!

Here are the website links to those sites we talked about during our PLT meeting this week...

Graffiti Wall: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/graffiti/index.html

Word Clouds: http://tagul.com/  or http://www.wordle.net/create  or http://www.tagxedo.com/

Book Covers: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/bookcover/

Memory Bag: http://www.mrsrenz.net/pdf/bookprojects/memorybagdirections.pdf

Letter to Friend: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/letter_generator/