Listening

Speaking

• A Directed Listening–Thinking Activity for The Tell-Tale Heart
• Developing Story Structure With Paper-Bag Skits
• Diction in Literary Texts
• Inner-Outer Circle
• K-W-L
• Language Registers
• Listening Rubric
• Literature Circles Roles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Make a Date
• Performance Reading
• Poetry for Two Voices
• QAR1, QAR2, QAR Spanish, FQR
• Question Matrix
• Reading Process
• Reporter's Formula
• Serious Play: Reading Poetry with Children
• Socratic Seminar Instructions
• Socratic Seminar Instructions 2
• Socratic Seminar rubric
• Socratic Seminar Questioning
• Strategic Reading
• Strategies to "Fix Up" Confusion
• Why Flexible Grouping?
• Why Word Walls?

Vocabulary

Fluency

Variety of Texts

• Alphabet letters for word walls
• Analogy Graphic Organizer
• Book Chat 1, 2
• Bookmatch
• Buddy Reading
• CD Map
• Choosing, Chatting and Collecting: Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
• Different Perspectives Graphic Organizer
• Everyone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
• Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
• Expository Escapades
• Focusing Reader Response through Vocabulary Analysis
• Flexible Grouping
• Generating and Organizing Ideas for Story Writing
• Guided Reading in Grades 4 - 12
• Hypertext Lesson 1, 2, 3, 4
• Imagine That!
• In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Bldy. Meaning
• Inner-Outer Circle
• Internalization of Vocabulary through Use of a Word Map
• Literature Circles Roles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Literature Circle Role Cards
• Listening Rubric
• Name Meanings Chart
• Performance Reading
• Quad Card 1, 2
• Reader Response
• Reading Log
• Reading Survey
• Robert Frost Prompts the Poet in You
• SSR Management
• SSR (Sample Class Guidelines)
• Getting Ready for College CR
• Six Steps to Vocabulary Development
• Strategic Reading
• The Reading Challenge of Content Vocabulary ( Alpha Organizer mentioned in the article)
• The Reading Performance: Understanding Fluency. . .
• Thinking Maps:  Bridge
• Timed Reading Chart
• Vocabulary Assurance Cards
• Word Family Tree
• Word Up!
• Word Wall
• Word Wall Activities

Comprehension

Literary Response

Text Structures

Research

Culture

• A Graphic for Literary Test (PDF)
• A Way with Words:  Exploring the Roles of Fact and Opinion in Relaying the News
• Inventing and Presenting Unit 1: Analyzing Nonfiction and Inventing Solutions
• Be a Reading Detective: Finding Similarities and Differences in Ideas
• Believe it or Not
• Blending Multiple Genres in Theme Baskets
• Book Chat Questions--Fiction (Word) (PDF)
• Book Chat Questions--Non Fiction (Word)  (PDF)
• Book Chat Score Sheet
• Buddy Reading
• Black and White in United States History: A Gray Area
  Comparing Old and New Accounts of Thomas Jefferson’s Life
• Career Cruiser  CR
• Cause and Effect Questioning Frames
• Cartoon Comprehension
• Character Analysis Grid
• Character Sociogram
• Choosing a Career CR
• Compare and Contrast Electronic Text With Traditionally Printed Text
• Comparing and Contrasting: Picturing an Organizational Pattern
• Considering Setting
• Cooperative Learning Guidelines
• Critical Literacy: Point of View
• Critical Thinking
• Cuisine Art: Exploring Ethnic Culture Through Food
• Culture Shock
• Diction in Literary Works
• Discussion Web
• E-Pals Around the World
• Elements of Myths
• Flexible Grouping
• Forms of Poetry
• Four Categories of Reading
• Generalization Lesson
• Grammar Blast!
• Graphic Life Map
• Guided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube
• Guided Reading in Grades 4 - 12
• "I Have a Dream" Speech
• Identifying Character Traits
• Improving Writing with the Six Traits
• Inner-Outer Circle
• K-W-L
• Letters and Learning Genre
• Literature Circles Roles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Literature Circle Role Cards
• Literary Devices
• Literary Terms
• Literary Terms for MLK's Speech
• Make a Date
• Media Awareness
• Metaphor for Egg
• Modeling Reading and Analysis Processes with the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
• Open Mind Diagram
• Organizational Patterns
• Planning For My Future CC
• Portfolio Development in Guidance Central  CC
• Previewing the Text
• Press Conference for Bud, Not Buddy
• Proposition/Support Outline
• QAR Questions by Category (WORD)  (PDF)
• QAR1, QAR2, QAR Spanish, FQR
• Question Matrix
• Questioning the Author
• Reading Analysis of Multi Genre Texts
• Reading Literary Texts
• Reading Process
• Reader Response
• Reading Strategies for Test Success
• Reciprocal Teaching
• Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
• Shared Spelling Strategies
• SMART
• Socratic Seminar Instructions
• Socratic Seminar Instructions 2
• Socratic Seminar rubric
• Socratic Seminar Questioning
• Sound and Music: The Power to Enhance Story
• Stickman Notetaking
• Story Map
• Strategic Reading
• Strategies to "Fix Up" Confusion
• Summary, Symbol, and Analysis in Bookmark
• TAKS OER Rubric
• TAKS OER Rubric--Crossover Question
• "The Impossible Dream"
• The Pentad
• Thematic Links Questions
• Thinking Maps: Circle, Bubble, Double Bubble, Flow, Multi Flow, Tree, Brace, and Bridge
• Thrills and Chills
• Tiered Cause and Effect Examples
• Vignette: Teaching the Passive Voice
• Why Literature Circles?
• Write Away
• Yearlong Concepts

Purposes

Penmanship/

Mechanics/

Grammar/Usage

• Be Verbs
• Be Verbs Hand Jive
• Capitalization Car
• Conjunction Junction
• Clocking Sheet
• Creative Writing through Wordless Picture Books
• Editing Checklist
• End Punctuation
• Everyone Loves a Mystery
• Fairytale Autobiographies
• FANBOYS
• Focus on Proofreading
• Four Uses of a Comma
• Genres of Writing
• Handwriting Continuum
• Internalization of Vocabulary Through the Use of a Word Map
• Internet Checklist
• Internet Documentation Form
• K-W-L
• Language Registers
• Macaroni Punctuation
• Memories Matter: The Giver and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
• Mini Lessons for Writing
• OREO Icing Sentences
• Peer Edit 1, 2, and 3
• Persuasive Essay
• "Porky" Sentence Structure
• Purposes for Writing
• Using the Four Square Strategy
• Verbs with Helpers
• Voice
• Writing a Flashback and Flash-Forward Story Using Movies and Texts as Models
• Writing Free Verse in the "Voice" of Cesar Chavez
• Writing Process

• Alternative Ways of Assessing
• Audience, Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages
• Biography Project
• Books for Teaching the 6 Traits
• Books for Teaching Voice
• Books to Use to Support the Content Areas
• Clocking Sheet
• Commenting in Word
• Conference Sheet
• Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities between Writing and Art
• Electronic Message Rubric
• Flexible Grouping
• How to Write a Survey 1, 2, 3, 4
• Magnify the Focus
• Make a Date
• Mini Lessons for Drafting
• Mini Lessons for Writing
• Organizational Patterns
• Peer Revision
• Peer Revision - Show not Tell
• Periodic Portfolio Questions
• Process Reflection
• Portfolio Questions
• QAR1, QAR2, QAR Spanish, FQR
• Qualities of Good Writing
• Revision Self Evaluation Rubric
• Sample Criteria Charts and Rubrics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7and 8
• Sample Essays
• Show Not Tell
• Six Traits Rubric - Student Friendly
• TAKS Essay Rubric
• TAKS OER Rubric
• TAKS OER Rubric--Crossover Question
• Traveling the Road to Freedom through Research
• Verbal Recreations
• Versions in XP
• Voice
• What's in Your Heart?
• Write From the Heart (Heart Mapping)
• Writing Process
• Writing Process Wheel
• Writing Record
• Writing Survey
• Writing Log

• Administrative Produre I - M
• Attributes of the 21st Century Learner  CC
• Casting a Wide Net: Writing and Producing a Class Podcast
• Critical Media Questions
• Critical Media Literacy: TV Programs
• Growing with Media: Dilemmas
• History Behind Song Lyrics
• Hypertext Lesson 1, 2, 3, 4
• Media Awareness
• Permission to Use Media
• The Write Site
• Thinking Maps: Circle, Bubble, Double Bubble, Flow, Multi Flow, Tree, Brace, and Bridge
• Timelines and Text
• Using Media Flexibly to Compose and Communicate

pblmm.K12.ca.us/PBLGuide/Activities/Activities.html

eteach.esc13.net/t_lang_arts.htm

www.readwritethink.org/index.asp

rubistar4teachers.org  

www.pics4learning.com

www.freeplaymusic.com

www.brainpop.com

www.enchanted learning.com

www.factmonster.com

www.mybookmarks.com/PISDIT

www.dictionary.com

syndicate.com

www.vocabulary.co.il

webnz.co.nz/checkers/grammar2.html

englishplus.com/grammar

www.grammarbook.com

english-zone.com/index.php

www3.uakron.edu/noden

www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2692/grammarlink.html

Sentence Structure

wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/sentencestruct.htm

www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/rvsntstr.html

Sentence Combining

leo.stcloudstate.edu/style/sentencev.html

www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/4/81.04.06.x.html

www.sanmarcos.net/ana/Class/Notes/CombSen.html

pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~slamos

www.discover-writing.com

www.readwritethink.org

www.englishcompanion.com

writingfix.com

www.newseum.org

www.pics4learning.com

eduscapes.com/tap/topic20.htm

Viewing/ Representing

www.medialit.org

www.pbs.org

medialit.med.sc.edu

www.medialiteracy.net

www1.medialiteracy.com/home.jsp

www.pbs.org/teachersource/media_lit/media_lit.shtm

Media Literacy | Media Education | Questia.com Online Library

www.ianjukes.com (teaching the 21st century learner)