Thinkfinity offers New Site for Reading Literacy Concepts

Thinkfinity joins with The Electric Company to offer a multimedia site for reading literacy concepts through games, videos, and activities. The videos are of great quality and so eye-catching. There are activity sheets for students and lesson plans for teachers. My favorite part are the music videos about "silent e."

http://thinkfinity.org/electric-company

Uses of Wordle in K-6 Classroom

Word Clouds are a great tool for the classroom. Check out this slideshow by Jen Wagner on ways to use Wordle in the K-6 classroom. It has many great ideas.

Wordle Ideas

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Other Possible Uses of Wordle:

• All About Me - students create describing themselves and then classmates match each Wordle to student
• All About Me - Type the student name 2-3 times so that it stands out on the page, then type describing words beside their name.
• Grammar Usage - nouns vs. verbs (right click on words to delete all the nouns or vice versa)
• Year in Review - students create a Wordle containing concepts taught throughout the year. 

Other Possible Uses of Wordle for Grades 5-6:

• Writing Tool - copy and paste rough drafts into Wordle to see overused words
• Author's Diction - help establish mood by pasting selections from assigned reading (novels, short stories, poetry, etc.)
• Character Analysis - type traits for one character in order of importance, create Wordle for each character, and match Wordles to characters in novel.

Click here to read how Peter Pappas recommends using Wordle to Build Literacy Skills through defining, summarizing, and comparing. 

Educational Apps for the Ipod Touch

Interested in educational apps for your Ipod touch? Look no further. This site has a list of apps, along with a description. The list is for Language Arts apps, but it you look at the right hand column there are other articles about apps for other core subjects.

Language Arts apps