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  Directions: Spiders may be a little scary — but they are also amazing creatures that play an important role in the cycle of life on earth. Learn more about them with the interactive hunt, below. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper, or on the reproducible provided by your teacher. This page includes links outside of ...

Some learning/teaching strategies I have learned from my work with my kids. I gave you some of them a few posts below. Begun on April 2, 2009 Translating sentences by all. In their tests they have translations. The student makes up a test as though he was the teacher. Just 4 questions. It is the “opposite side” of their desks – they are now ...

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Having students “read out loud” is sometimes very painful. Readers that are painfully slow as they try to decipher words that they should know by 5th and 6th grade, painfully hard to listen to as they mutter monotone throughout the section or read machine-gunned words nonstop with no consideration for punctuation marks or spaces between ...

Despite budget problems, my district next year will adopt new high school English textbooks. For the past five – six years, I have used The Norton Reader for AP English Language, and I love it. The book is filled with a variety of essays on different topics and with different writing styles. Since the textbook [...]

Creating a love for reading is one of the most important things we can instill in our students.  However, age-old book reports often encourage quite the opposite. Fortunately, there are other ways we can test our students’ reading comprehension without making them write the dreaded book report. Try oral reports. Have students express ...

Based on standardized test scores, this year my school has focused on improving our students’ reading comprehension. Every now and then we have been shown scores and have been encouraged to increase the amount of reading that we require, particularly the reading of nonfiction texts. We’ve had staff development on how to increase reading ...

I stumbled across this blog awhile ago: “…and we also read.” URL: http://readkl.blogspot.com/search/label/at%20a%20cafe Its premise is to capture people reading, all over the world. When I visited this morning, the Live Feed included: Philippines Australia Jakarta Petaling Jaya, Kual Lumpur Johor Bahru, Johor Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg Singapore and ...

I have fallen behind on book reading recently, but I just wanted to let you know about a lovely contest going on to earn free books! YAY! Here’s the link lovvis: http://babblingflow.blogspot.com/2010/03/march-madness-saradise-style-major.html Enjoy! Tagged: books, reading, recommendations

Hello All! So yesterday I'm sitting at the OHIO STEM Conference in Columbus, Ohio and came across this great site while ''surfing'' and notetaking of course!  It's called Books Should Be Free.  www.booksshouldbefree.com Its a database of free downloadable audio books.  There's a search box, a link for the top 100 books and ...