Literacy

=LITERACY Resources=


 * [|Audiobooks]** - Teen/Young Adults section. Free from AudioOwl which offers two download options. A book can be added to iTunes as a podcast. Or, the book can be downloaded in a zipped folder that contains an MP3 file for each chapter, for use with any MP3 player. It is worth noting that some of these files are quite large and require considerable download time.


 * [|Audiobooks]** - Children's section.


 * [|ABC Links]** - This page generates random alphabet fragments to support alphabet sequencing work, see [|Missing Links] in the Maths column for a similar activity based on numeric sequences.


 * [|ABC cards: large]** - Prints a full set of large alphabet cards for flashing, wall or washing line. Words and pictures use letter sounds and are age appropriate for older students.


 * [|the Add-On Story]** - Jennifer Swanson teaches grades 10-12 at Corwith-Wesley-LuVerne High School in Corwith, Iowa. She says that "the joy of this assignment is watching the students giggle as they skim over the progress of the story". If you could use some joy in your class, then perhaps you should try this activity.


 * [|Alphabet Cards]** - Prints initial sound alphabet matching cards with pictures. Two different sets are provided to allow for a more challenging game where letters and sounds rather than pictures have to be matched.


 * [|Alphabet Cards: A Apple Pie]** - Kate Greenaway's illustrations to the classic nursery rhyme 'A Apple Pie'. High quality printout and consequently this is a large 32MB file. Note that its optimised for print, so doesn't look too great on screen.


 * [|Connective Tiles]** - Make tiles with connective phrases from your own text.


 * [|e-Books by PlaneteBook]** - is a free service where teachers and students can find classic literature titles available as free downloads.


 * [|e-Books Directory]** - i s a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet.


 * [|e-Books Search]** - is a search engine that scans many collections of ebooks to find free content that matches your search.

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 * [|Follow Me Cards]** - Make two types of follow me (follow on) cards by entering your own text, character symbols or numbers. Some example card sets are included. [[image:boypencil_c.gif align="right"]]

[|Handwriting 1] - This generator prints a selection of sheets to support early handwriting and pre-writing skills. Learners must over-trace grey shapes, lines and curves of various types.


 * [|Handwriting 2]** - This generator produces pre-writing and early writing support sheets. Learners must over-write and copy a number of shapes and line patterns.


 * [|Interactive Talking Books]** - simple talking storybooks can be created within powerpoint enabling and motivating children who have literacy challenges to produce meaningful, high quality work.


 * [|It's Your Theme Song]** - Aimee Arreygue, an English teacher at Fullerton High School in Fullerton, California, devised this lesson as an end of year project for her class of 30-35 students, of all ability levels. It's flexible enough that you could probably use it at any time during the term.


 * [|the Joke and the Paragraph]** - Michael Jursic is a recent grad of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and he teaches at Ryerson Community School in Inner City Toronto. Try this lesson to teach the parts of a paragraph and the class will learn something and get a good chuckle at the same time. Who said education can't be fun?


 * [|KIZCLUB]** Learning Resources - various printables for ABC's, phonics, topics, crafts, stories, rhymes, etc.

[|Letter Mash] **-** Find the letter activity - used as pre-reading activity and as an abstract exercise in scanning. Set a single letter by typing top-right. Use the checkboxes to select the characters used for padding rows.


 * [|Literacy Website]** - downloadable items: tales, word mats, poetry, story writing helpers, phonics, etc.

[|Literacy Website 2]- amazing colorful cards - a MUST SEE! Alphabet and sounds, words and vocabulary, writing and letter formation, letters and sounds, stories and rhymes. More to this website, click [|HERE.]


 * [|Literacy Dice]** - This generator makes large dice from user input. Add letters, fragments, numerals and other characters.


 * [|Literacy Fans]** - Make literacy fans using letters, fragments and other symbols. Makes useful resources for phonics and word building activities.


 * [|the Million Dollar Assignment]** - What would you do if you had one million dollars? What if you had to spend it in one day? What if you had to use the classifieds to do it? This is the premise of a tremendous writing exercise by Kim Thornley who teaches at Timberland High School in St. Stephen, SC


 * [|Onset and Rime Tiles]** - This generator prints interlocking tiles built from user input to support onset and rime word building work.

Pe**[|er Editing Sheet]** - questions and checklist for Senior High students.


 * [|ReadWriteThink]** - variety of resources (Venn diagram, bio-cube, animal inquiry, character trading cards, compare & contrast...)


 * St[|udent Declaration of Independence]** - This is a "persuasive document to persuade faculty and administration to listen and take action in regards to your complaints" which has been submitted by Cathy Poston, who teaches at Liberty Union High School in Baltimore, Ohio. It is a fairly demanding writing exercise which Cathy uses in her American Literature course.


 * [|Summarizing, Paraphrasing and Quoting]** - Yes, you can borrow from the work of others! How and when to use each of these three strategies.


 * [|Teacher's Pet]** - free PDF resources. Amazing images and information for K-6


 * [|Urban Legends Writing Assignment]** - An urban legend appears mysteriously and spreads in many forms and contains elements of humor or horror (the horror often "punishes" someone), makes good storytelling, and does NOT have to be false, although most are. Andrea Kitter is a member of Literacy AmeriCorps Pittsburgh and teaches adult learners. "I used this lesson with my Advanced GED writing class, but I think just about anyone could make it work for any level."


 * [|Visual Dictionary]** - Instead of a traditional words-only dictionary, the Visual Dictionary is based on images - more than 6,000 images, in fact, in 15 major themes that span from Astronomy to Sports.


 * [|Visual Thesaurus]** - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce amazing visual diagrams.

[|Word Cards] **-** This generator makes 3 sizes of flashcard or game card from user defined word lists.


 * [|Word Scrambler]** - This generator creates anagrams from a word list. Enter your own wordlist and a title in the boxes above and then press one of the make sheet buttons.