Literacy

How about we post some useful literacy resources on this page? [|Read2Lead] Developed for us by TVDSB Literacy Coaches. Read2Lead is a __searchable__ database of mentor texts (books you can use as models for concepts you're teaching). For example. If you are teaching the reading comprehension strategy of "inferring", and the "narrative" writing form, key those two terms (called tags) into the search field (separated by a comma), and the site will return a list of read-aloud texts to use for modelling your think-alouds. I typed persuasive in the search section and it came up with a number of mentor texts that we can use for our opinion/persuasive writing tasks that we are currently working on. =__Digital Storytelling__ = Creating stories using web tools is fun and engaging for student while also teaching them new skills. Best of all you can embed them in blog posts to grab readers; including something a bit different makes reading posts more interesting(Sue Waters - Edublogs editor).

[|50 ways to create digital stories with students]

50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story

[|Centre for Digital Storytelling]

The Fifty Tools = = = [|The Ministry of Education: Ontario Curriculum Writing Exemplars Gr 1-8] = = = = = = = = = = = = //Click on the document to access all of the Writing Exemplars for Grades 1-8.// = = = = = = = = =