This downloadable document offers an extensive alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots outlining: the root, meaning in English, language origin (Greek or Latin), etymology (root origin) and English examples.
This site offers a reading and writing initiative that connects authors with readers.
Teachers can use this site to make reading and writing more relevant to their students. No matter the grade, LitPick could be a great fit for an independent reading activity. Students can read the reviews of books for free and can sign up as reviewers, request books that interest them to review, and then publish reviews as the culminating assessment. LitPick also supports a book group experience. In this model, an entire classroom can join LitPick as one group, and teachers can monitor the group from a dashboard. Students can all read and review the same book, or choose different ones. There's also an option to do video reviews, which might be good for older students as a way to extend learning beyond the written review.
This is a fabulous resource to support your literacy goals in the classroom. There are endless options of good-quality children's literature and accompanying activities. The website states: "This award-winning digital library hosts over 10,000 resources directly tied to the books teachers, caregivers and community partners turn to everyday. Organize all of your book resources in one place, create and share book lists, find helpful reading tips and strategies and track student reading progress by creating and signing into your free account today." All of this is available with a free account.
This website provides short support videos by grade level for:
*readers have different voices
*readers make inferences
*readers retell/summarize
*readers question and predict
*readers track details
*readers juggle multiple texts
*SEL
The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources that have been curated from YouTube, Vimeo and other sites to meet curricular outcomes in ELA.
The resources can be used in stand alone literacy lessons, can form the basis for a whole Literacy unit or can support literacy units that you already have in place. With the many book based activities using the book alongside the digital resource is recommended.
This resource attached below as a PDF provides progressions from the lowest to the most complex skill for the skills of:phonological awarenessphonicsvocabularyfluencyreading comprenshion
Practical advice and high impact teaching practices that improve outcomes in reading, writing and speaking and listening.
Guides are available for elementary schools and early education (birth to 5 years) as well.
Sections are included for Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, Interacting with Others, Emergent Literacy and within those areas you will find teaching practices, videos, sample phonics lessons, in practice examples and more.
A teaching tooklit map is provided to grade 6 with links to many of the items on the map! https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/childhood/professionals/learning/literacy/lttusermap-ec.pdf (birth to 5)
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/english/literacy/lttusermap.pdf (Gr. 1 to 6)
A map with live links on how to prepare young students for literacy and interacting with others!
Students create a theme park for the novel “Where the Red Fern Grows" using Makerspace. OR Students create a comic book that describes all of the sequential plot elements of the story. OR Students create a test using Quizlet or Kahoot that explores all the story elements.
This is a listening activity, intended to help students with their listening skills. The activity is a reading of the book "Barnyard Dance" written by Sandra Boynton, read by Heather Phillips, that includes dance like instructions for students to do as they listen.
This video demonstrates at home make and beak word literacy strategies that you can do at home with your kids.
8th Grade Science teacher Peter Hill from King Middle School in Maine shares a quick strategy tool and strategy he refers to as "word cloud". The "word cloud" is generated by a computer program that takes words from an article and generates a "cloud" with different sizes of words with the size emphasizing the frequency of the word. Mr. Hill uses this as a quick pre-reading activity to increase curiosity and engagement and to have students anticipate what the article or essay is about and what the main idea is. Teachers might also consider a twist to this idea and have student groups create their own word cloud after reading a selected text.11
After reading a work of literature as a class, students will brainstorm "crimes" committed by characters from that text. Groups of students will work together to act as the prosecution or defense for the selected characters, while also acting as the jury for other groups. Students will use several sources to research for their case, including the novel and internet resources. All the while, students will be writing a persuasive piece to complement their trial work.
While this lesson uses Shakespeare's The Tempest, there are several other text options. Handouts (except for the model case handout) are generic so that they can be used with any text.
Students can map out the key literary elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution as prewriting for their own fiction or as analysis of a text by another author in this secondary-level interactive.
Literary Graffiti, a high school version of the Doodle Splash student interactive, also aims to teach students to visualize what they are reading to help them develop as readers.
This lesson asks students to analyze the features of a poetŐs work then create their own poems based on the original model.
This lesson leads students to reflect on and respond to literature by creating an online scrapbook. Students view a sample electronic scrapbook and use the project rubric to evaluate it, becoming familiar with the project requirements in the process. They use an online tool to evaluate resources on a topic related to a piece of literature and post their evaluations for class reference. Students then use online resources to capture ŕscrapsĚŇ of information about their assigned topic and create a scrapbook using PowerPoint or another presentation software, making sure to cite all their sources. They share their online scrapbook with the class, defending their choice of scrapbook entries: why is the entry important to the understanding of the topic?
This lesson focuses on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, but any piece of literature could be used for the basis of an online scrapbook.
Capture studentsŐ enthusiasm for film and transfer it to reading and literature by substituting film production roles for the traditional literature circle roles.
The folloeing are a variety of worksheets to go with literature circles.
Students practice different ways of collaborating to read a work of literature. They work in different roles as they compose and answer questions, discover new vocabulary, and examine literary elements.