Reading

Please post items of interest regarding reading, literacy, or literacy instruction here

Interesting [|Graphic Organizers/Tools] for Reading. LBB

[|Wordsift:] upload any text, make cool pictures. Then scroll over words for meanings. Love this. KHJ [|Reading stragegies for the classroom]Really amazing site for ways to get students reading actively with more comprehension. KHJ

[|Adolescent Reading] I thought this was a great resource for teaching adolescent readers. More mirror books. Strategies for teaching reading. KHJ

[|Latest news on reading] Read the latest news on reading from the NYT 1/11/09. It's good news. KHJ [|Tools for Reading, Writing, and Thinking] Good organizers for reading responses and taking notes. [|Free Comic Strip Maker] What a great way to check reading. Have students make a comic about what happened in the reading. KHJ

[|Free Comic Strip Maker] Another free comics maker. KHJ

I just made this powerpoint for my regular 9th grade classes to talk about active reading. KHJ

[|Letting Kids Pick The Books] A nice long article exploring the benefits and hazards of allowing the students to pick their own books. JHG

[|Can Books Survive?] A nice article about the way our digital age is changing our attention spans and what this means for the future of the printed word (especially fiction). Plus, lots of people involved in the publishing industry chime in! JHG

media type="custom" key="2040464"This is a voicethread book review---something any of us could use in class. khj

[|The Fifty Greatest Villains in Literature] - A pretty good list. Beware of some spoilers! JHG

[|Is Google Making Us Stupid?] For the record, I read this in print before I read it online. . . an article about reading paper text vs. internet.

[|The Incredible Vanishing Book:] An article from Inside Higher Ed by an associate professor of modern languages and faculty co-chair of the University of Texas Arlington One Book Reading Program regarding both the alarming rate of decline in reading among college students and the detrimental effect that professors have on publishing textbooks by creating course packets. Couple this article with an entry in the 11.2.08 blog, //The Education of Oronte Churm// entitled, "You Shall Know Them By Their Music," in which he writes, "Students who reach me without having read or written are not too late, but they are delayed. //They// truly have no standards, so I try to get them thinking about writing, including the basics of hearing words." What universities are seeing in their students reminds us of the daunting task before us of making sure our students are //prepared// when they leave Lakeview at graduation. CDV

[|Reading Standards/21st Century reading] This is a pdf from the Association of School Librarians about reading standards---especially interesting in light of conversations about reading in the digital age. KHJ

[|People Reading] - A neat, frequently-updated blog about what the man/woman-on-the-street happens to be reading. Includes pictures! JHG