Literacy+Links

Welcome to the Literacy Page!
(Check back often for new links and new cool ideas) (Please let me know if any links are broken)

**Cool ideas:**
**Speed Booking!** You've heard of speed dating? Speed booking is similar but the goal is to share three minute book talks and then students move to the next person to hear about their book. It looks like a lot of fun. The follow up is at the end of the year, students make a short video about their favorite book of the year. The videos are posted on the school website and other students must choose five books for their summer reading from the posted videos.

LookyBook--read children's books online: http://www.lookybook.com/
All about LOC's new literacy program; Short videos, audio book trailers: http://www.loc.gov/literacy/about/

LOC's main literacy page: http://www.loc.gov/literacy/

Digital book trailers: http://www.digitalbooktalk.com/ How parents can help motivate children to read (from Reading is Fundamental): http://www.rif.org/parents/motivate/default.mspx Building a home library (From Reading is Fundamental): http://www.rif.org/parents/articles/family_library.mspx Links to lists of suggested summer reading titles (from American Library Association): http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/summerreading/recsummerreading/recommendedreading.cfm

Make your own Pop-Up books (scroll to "make it") on the lower left. PDFs and video how-tos: http://www.popupbooks.com/

Sites for leveling books: http://www.hvrsd.k12.nj.us/forms/leveledbooksmain.htm http://battlecreekel.spps.org/Guided_Reading_Leveled_Library.html

"Open Vault provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH for individual and classroom learning. The ever-expanding site contains video excerpts, searchable transcripts, a select number of complete interviews for purchase, and resource management tools." : http://openvault.wgbh.org/ Reading Strategies: http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/reading%20strategies%20index.htm

Spelling Strategies: http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/curric/files/pages/saisop/VacationLiteracy/spsmain.htm

Places for students to publish: http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/studpub/ http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/basic/yngwrite.html