AgendaDay 2: Academic Vocabulary and Writing- Setting the Stage
- Pertinent research - Literacy Panel and Marzano
- Writing instruction:
- Activities:
- Picture banks to spark written response: Parody Motivator Generator
- Cool Iris: Link to download site
- FlickrStorm: FlickrStorm is a another search for Flickr! It works by looking for more than what you enter to find related and more relevant images... Be suprised!
- Google Docs for collaborative writing
- Google Docs Overview (Shared Presentation)
- Sign up for Google Apps for Education (School)
- Teacher Crib Sheet (PDF)
- Docs in the classroom: Simple as ABC
- Edit a Document Together Activity (Sign Up)
- The Best Websites For K-12 Writing Instruction/Reinforcement (Activity)
- Online book creation with Bookr
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Vocabulary Tools- Chuala
- On this free site, which you can use without registering, you hear the pronunication of English words and you can record your own pronunciation of the same word to compare the two (assuming you have a microphone, of course).
- Sight Words With Samson
- It’s clearly one of the best websites out there to learn sight words — for English Language Learners or younger native-English speakers. There’s audio support for text and a lot of interactive fun exercises. One of the best things about it is that it also shows sight words in the context of sentences — in both audio and text. In an ideal world it would also show an image illustrating the sentence, but you can’t always have everything.
- Starfall
- The established site that is rivaled by no other in providing accessible literacy activities to Beginning English Language Learners.
- U.S.A Learns
- It’s an incredible website to help users learn English. Even though it’s primarily designed for older learners, it seems very accessible to all but the very youngest ELL’s. It’s free to use. Students can register if they want to save their work and evaluate their progress.
- VocabSushi
- With VocabSushi, flash cards are a thing of the past. The best way to build your vocabulary is not rote memorization. It's seeing how words are used in everyday language. VocabSushi helps you prepare for the ISEE, SAT, ACT, GRE or other standardized test by teaching you vocab words with real-world, contextual examples found in the daily news.
Writing Tools- The Art of Storytelling: www.artofstorytelling.org
- Allows you pick a painting, write a short story about it, record it with your computer microphone, and email the url address for posting on a student website or blog. It’s extraordinarily simple, and extraordinarily accessible to any level of English Language Learner. No registration is required.
- BBC Bitesize Revision for Writing:
- It’s geared towards a younger audience (and perfect for English Language Learners), but their multiple activities are just great
- Create a Tale: http://www.scholastic.com/dogslife/createtale.htm
- Students can….create a tale using step-by-step instructions including images.
- Writing Fun:
- It would be difficult to design a site that was more attractive or more supportive to students organizing many different types of essays.
- Writing Help: www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/hh/writeideas
- It's from the Time for Kids Website. It's a site that shows great models of writing for different sections.
- Newspaper Clipping Generator:
- Tuxpi.com provides a variety of browser based imaging tools and toys, that let you very easily apply a special look to your pictures.
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