Thursday, February 11, 2010

Teach your Students Well, (build an online writing toolkit)

Teach your Students Well, (build an online writing toolkit)

Check out this list of resources to develop a writing toolkit for your students.
Visit this wiki for the links:
Photopeach a great place for students to use images in a presentation about a book, a project, a concept

Wordle a great place for students to capture vocabulary in a book, project, pre-teaching, comprehension

What Kind of Learner are You? let your students check out their learning style

Find a book at your Lexile let your students check out their lexile reading level choices

Mad Libs let your students create their own mad libs

Library of Congress The Library of Congress has great primary source information, students love it.

Ask.com A user friendly place to being a research project.

Citation Machine Learners can cite their sources.

Graphic Organizers A source for graphic organizers.

Visual Thesaurus Just what it says! Students love using this.

Awesome Adjectives and Sensory Words Stupendous!

Spell Checker Great spell checker.

Create your own checklist! You and your student can create a personalized editing checklist.

Hear your work! Use this site to hear your text read to you. Here is an example of the audio embedded into your wiki.

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