Welcome, you charming intellectual!
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Watch this slide show to review reading strategieshttp://jc-schools.net/ce/reading-strategies_files/frame.htm
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Ask yourself these questions about your habits when you readhttp://www.boobis.com/students/rdingchecklist.html
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Click on the red buttons to start a sessionhttp://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcompstrat.htm
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You need to know what kind of text you're reading to know which strategy works best!http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/typesoftext/game.shtml
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Tips from students who made it to James Madison Universityhttp://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/reading.html
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Do any of these words describe a character in the book or story you're reading?http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson175/traits.pdf
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This Canadian test is great practice for reading and teaches strategies, too.http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm
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Never believe all you see or all your read...http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/entertainment/
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Use this site to find a book that fits your taste!http://www.bookadventure.org/ki/bs/ki_bs_helpfind.asp
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This allows online creation of graphic organizershttp://www.workingsimulations.com/graphic_organizer.html
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Put on headphones and listenhttp://www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/audiostories/index.html
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Pretend you're a child again and curl up with a good storyhttp://wiredforbooks.org/kids/beatrix/p1.htm
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Listen to the classic fantasy!http://wiredforbooks.org/alice/chapter1.htm
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Listen to the classic Christmas ghost story!http://wiredforbooks.org/carol/
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Listen to Edgar Allan Poe's classic suspense storyhttp://wiredforbooks.org/edgarallanpoe/index.htm
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Always young!http://www.seussville.com/CITH_50th/
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You can read along as you listen!http://www.loudlit.org/
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http://ccpsintranet.chesterfield.k12.va.us/index.cfm
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teaches strategies in an interactive formathttp://www.tv11.org/reading
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http://www.starfall.com
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Internet Library for Teenshttp://www.ipl.org/div/teen/browse/rw0000/
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Interesting articles and videoshttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/
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Lots of activitieshttp://www.rif.org/readingplanet/
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Although written for social studies, these activities are helpful and fun for lang.arts!http://www.phschool.com/curriculum_support/ss_skills_tutor/#
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http://www.carnegielibrary.org/teens/read/booklists/midschool.html
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http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/bookzone/favorits.html
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(interactive) Amazon list: allows searching inside the bookshttp://www.amazon.com/High-School-Book-Assignments/lm/21F6J65IRIWZU
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(interactive)http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/search
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(interactive) Enter your age and interests, and it will provide a selection of bookshttp://www2.cehd.umn.edu/CI/K12books/Search.aspx
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http://www.oprah.com/obc/kids/age912/obc_kids_912_a.jhtml
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http://www.oprah.com/obc/kids/age13/obc_kids_13_a.jhtml
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http://www.wilsonareasd.org/teachweb/korin/read.html
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http://www.carnegielibrary.org/teens/read/booklists/
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http://www.teenreads.com/
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http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten.cfm
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Amazon list - allows searching inside the bookshttp://www.amazon.com/Young-Reader-Books-Guaranteed-Enjoyed/lm/1QFLJA38K795Q
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</FONT COLOR=BLUE>Higher level or adult readers</FONT>http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100rivallist.html
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(interactive) All levelshttp://www.bookbrowse.com/choices/
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Higher level or adult readershttp://www.harvard.com/onourshelves/top100.html
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(Current) Higher Level or Adulthttp://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/index.html
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Higher level or adult -- search by title or yearhttp://www2.oprah.com/obc/obc_landing.jhtml
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(Interactive) Higher Level or Adulthttp://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html
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Use this guest access: ccps-englishhttp://guest.portaportal.com?ccps-english
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videos and lesson examples from the Va. Dept. of Educationhttp://www.vdoe.whro.org/Readers/index.html
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Excellent resource! eLearning modules that are worth viewinghttp://www.paec.org/teacher2teacher/english_languagearts.html
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Passges and questions to use for practicehttp://www.abcteach.com/directory/reading_comprehension/middlehigh_school/
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Includes a description of how to manage the class to teach the strategieshttp://www.readingquest.org/strat/
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Good descriptions of each teaching strategyhttp://www.nea.org/reading/readingstrategiessum.html
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A refresher list for ideas to use in the classroom!http://glossary.plasmalink.com/glossary.html
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Impressive lesson, shown with videos and including handoutshttp://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/deli/exhibits/1000543/Introduction.html
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A wealth of links to sites that are loaded with good stuff!http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/reading-ms.html
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A great way for students to interact with what they readhttp://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/interactivenotebook.htm
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Some of these are fairly simple, but can be tweaked to increase the challengehttp://www.lessonplanspage.com/LA.htm
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Abundant! Check it out!http://www.kwcps.k12.va.us/Resources/WBIR/Middle/home.htm
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Using a jigsaw approach adds variety and depth to your topicshttp://www.jigsaw.org/
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Engage your students in an in-depth discussion about a story or novelhttp://ncsu.edu/literacyjunction/html/tutorialsocratic.html
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A comprehensive list of links to websites for books and/or authorshttp://www.webenglishteacher.com/litmain.html
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Contains strategies and ways to teach themhttp://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/t.html
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Strategies we know, and some new ideas, too!http://homepages.wmich.edu/~whitten/champaign_project/reading.html
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Check out the lesson on inferences!http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/fairfield/marshall_g/INSPIRATION/Inspiration.htm#LA
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These ideas are useful for middle school, toohttp://litsite.alaska.edu/workbooks/readingstrategies.html
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Online goodies!http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
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Tools and ideas to teach our students to be savvy about the mediahttp://www.medialit.org/focus/eng_home.html
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Teaching students how to analyze what they read and see in the mediahttp://www.webenglishteacher.com/media.html
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Make sure you're sending students to sites they can understand!http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php#readweb
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Clear explanation of what to look for. This will help students, too.http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/myoder/necc06/eFiveSixAuthenticity.htm
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Everything you need to know about making a webquesthttp://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-a.shtml
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This collection of readymade webquests may save you time and energy!http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/SCORE/cy68.html
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How is reading online different from reading on paper?http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/rt/2-03_Column/index.html
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More information on improving students' comprehension of online textReading on the Web: Making the Most of Digital Text
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Resources, articles, and ideas for incorporating technology into your classroomhttp://eduscapes.com/activate/index.html
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A website with a plethora of resources and ideashttp://www.classroomtools.com/
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This site is full of ideas for engaging studentshttp://www.ncsu.edu/literacyjunction/
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Here's a useful example of a Think Aloud being used by a teacher in a classroomhttp://www.allamericareads.org/lessonplan/strategies/during/thinkaloud1.htm
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A site that gives practical examples of useful teaching strategieshttp://www.readinglady.com/Comprehension/index.html
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Here are some ideas for books that will appeal to reluctant readershttp://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/quickpicks/quickpicksreluctant.htm
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A variety of resources about reading and a collection of reading materialhttp://del.icio.us/sharon_elin/reading
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Studies show that boys struggle more than girls with reading.http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/brochure/meread/meread.pdf
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Organized list by historical periodhttp://www.fcps.k12.va.us/FranklinMS/research/hisfic.htm
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Oops! I've been guilty of some of these! Good reminders...http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/creativitykillers.html
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Post these in your classroom to help students to remember to use reading strategies!http://www.readinglady.com/Comprehension/Strategy_Posters/strategy_posters.html
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Using questioning as a strategy while readinghttp://www.literacymatters.org/adlit/questioning/intro.htm
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What else can we do besides standardized tests?http://www.literacymatters.org/adlit/assessment/intro.htm
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Some useful ideas and reminders!http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/motivate.html
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Lessons applied to a novelhttp://www.allamericareads.org/lessonplan/pdf.htm
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The Dept. of Education offers lots of good stuff!http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/Reading/mreading.html
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High school level resources from Dept. of Educationhttp://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/English/home.html
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Join!http://www.vsra.org/
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Join! Travel to their inspirational conferences - it's worth the sub plans!http://www.ncte.org/
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An overview of reading strategieshttp://www.howard.k12.md.us/langarts/Curriculum/strategies.htm
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A sample lesson to demonstrate this reading strategyhttp://www.education-world.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev094.shtml
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A good practice test to use with your classhttp://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2003/grade8/read.htm
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Links to all the classic fairy taleshttp://www.ucs.mun.ca/~wbarker/fairies/grimm/
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Thousands of books onlinehttp://www.fullbooks.com/
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Vigilant teachers and parents need to know!http://www.netlingo.com/top20teens.cfm
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http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/scholasticprofessional/authors/talkabouts.htm#atwell
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http://thesaurus.reference.com/?
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http://dictionary.reference.com/
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http://www.m-w.com/
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http://www.vocabulary.com/weeklyroots.html
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0907017.html
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http://del.icio.us/sharon_elin/vocabulary
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http://www.southampton.liunet.edu/academic/pau/course/webesl.htm
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http://www.vocabulary.com/VUrootmatrix.html
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http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts/words/003.html
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http://www.esl-lab.com/
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http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html
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http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
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http://www.factmonster.com/spot/tonguetwister1.html
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http://www.sat-preparation.co.il/quiz/index.php?1ef80aef0866ae46cbb30eb76dc31947
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http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/sat/satwords1.shtml
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http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/logic/games/
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http://www.word-detective.com/
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Online Etymology Web Sitehttp://www.etymonline.com/index.php
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¡Es diversión para traducir palabras a otra lengua!http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
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http://www.netlingo.com/
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A funny list of unusual words and their meaninghttp://www.islandnet.com/~egbird/dict/dict.htm
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http://guest.portaportal.com?urban_legends