 | Active Young Readers P-6, Writers in Action and Active Readers 7-9 - foundation documents, professional resources, teaching ideas, weblinks, how to videos and more information from the Department of Education on these important provincial initiatives. |
| Looking for Mini-lesson ideas to support your ELA program? Try the Literacy and Technology site and go to Mini-lessons for some ideas. Also on this site you will find a Family Literacy page (designed primarily for parents of students in grades 3 to 9). |
| The N.S. Writing Exemplar project provides us with sample tasks linked to outcomes, 4 levels of responses to assist in increasing consistency in assessment and touches on a wide variety of writing forms and genres that students are expected to learn within the N.S. curriculum. Ideas and background material for teachers are also included on the site. |
| Ralph Fletcher is an author of some wonderful resources on how to teach writing. His books Writing Workshop, Craft Lessons and What a Writer Needs will help in forming some of the work for Writers in Action. |
| Writing for the Web- ideas for English teachers and their students- a terrific resource |
| Great ideas for the teaching of writing at the High School and Middle Levels. Links to handouts, specific teaching plans, examples and more included in this comprehensive site. |
| Fan Fiction is a growing new area. Try these two sites related to Harry Potter to get your students reading and writing. Fiction Alley and The Daily Prophet |
| Phonemic Awareness- what does it mean and what are the stages. |
| Shared Reading and its role in your classroom. Why it works to assist children in developing reading skills. |
| This literacy course was designed for teachers in Australia who wanted to learn on-line about how children learn. On the left hand side of the page there is an overview of the course that outlines books, topics and materials. A good place for more professional ideas. |
| Author Jan Brett has her own site. On this site you will find beautiful flash cards, Dolch word lists, alphabet letters, activities for holidays and for all of her books. This is an amazing site full of amazing ideas to compliment literacy development and Jan Brett's books. |
| Thanks to Primary/One teacher Irene Corkum for this neat site. Here you can practice making the letters of the alphabet. |
| This on-line dictionary from Webster's even speaks so you can hear how words should be pronounced. |
| Literature Circles - how to organize them and conduct them. A very useful website. |
| Literature Circles.com - explores Harvey Daniels and his ideas on Literature Circles. Harvey is the author of many books on this topic and a noted authority in his field. This weblink is a resource for educators interested in student led book discussion groups and is based on Harvey Daniel's work. |
| Guided Reading- a good overview adapted from Fountas and Pinnell -please note that this article is American and uses the term early fluent instead of Transitional to describe stages of reading development. |
| See how one teacher organizes Guided Reading in her classroom. She has provided information for parents, a star chart students use while reading and over 10 literacy activity centres that students are involved in while she is working with a guided reading group. |
| Author studies, webquests, illustrator studies, e-pen pals,
on-line postcard writing, writing for a variety of purposes, integrating
technology, conducting searches and more. Dr. Alice Christie's Technology Integration Workshop: Language Arts has this and even more. |
| CBC For Kids is a Canadian rich site with language arts and related activities for kids. |
| Create your own rubric for evaluating student work. |
| Are you working on storyboards with your students. A good description and example of storyboarding can be found on the Histori.ca site. |
| Children's Literature Web Guide |
| This site has premade Clicker 4 Grids to assist students in their writing. A free registration is necessary before using the site. |
| This site has a free section and a paid subscription section. Leveled stories can be downloaded and printed as small books. This site- Reading A-Z is being widely used in Elementary Schools in our Board. |
| Over 4 million poets, rhyming help, contests, readings and more... the complete Poetry reference site. |
| The Complete Work of Shakespeare at your fingertips. References are also given on the site to other Shakespearean resources. |
| On the puzzlemaker site you can take your own word list and create puzzles, word searches, letter tiles, word games... |
| At the November, 2003 Inservice, grade 6 teachers were introduced to this outcome tracking sheet. This sheet can be saved as a Word document and modified by teachers as they wish. The tracking sheet has outcomes that were on the Grade 6 Literacy Assessment (grade 5 outcomes) and matches these to grade 6 English Language Arts outcomes. |
