Literacy+Links

I've started a class list of links that may be helpful as we learn about literacy in the classroom. When you come across new links that may help your peers, post them here. When you post give us the title, a brief description of what's on the page as well as the link!

Song about standardized testing! http://www.notonthetest.com/

Chris Crutcher has AMAZING stories for adolescents. I particularly like his collections of short stories called "Athletic Shorts" about you guessed it sports! Great for both boys and girls. And brings up some really interesting topics like gay marriage, girls playing in boys sports and more! Really, if you've never heard of him, you MUST ready some of his stuff!!! http://www.chriscrutcher.com/

Debbie Diller's "Designing Classrooms for Literacy: Spaces & Places" is an amazing book describing the practical aspect of how to set up a classroom for litearcy! [|This link will take you to her blog,] where she talks about an oportunity to upload photos of your classroom in Flickr. As you may or may not know, Flickr is an social photo sharing website. So what you'll find here are other teachers' photos of their classrooms. Go take a look!

This is the Mulitple Intelligence inventory I want to you to take! Bring in your scores to class, for week 8. [| http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php]

[|Cyber Guides grades 6-8]: This site has project ideas for many adolescent novels.

Writing Prompts: Here is a site that may help develop good writing prompts: http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/prompts.php?odelay=0&d=1&prompt=1

To Assess Writing: This site has a rubric for different types of prompts, PLUS student writing examples from all different grades for all the scores. http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/beginningwriters.php?odelay=0&d=9

[|Read Write Think:] This webpage has ideas for assessing reading profiles on students. http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=11

Teen Reads: This website is geared to teenagers and reading! How cool is that! http://teenreads.com/