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It's hard to believe that
another school year is already underway. As we begin another year here at the
OLC, we are looking forward to bringing you more new ideas and
resources.
Find
resources faster!
Search
the OLC Website by grade level, theme or key word! Use the Google Search
on our main page or the Online Resources page to locate resources quickly and
easily.
THIS MONTH'S
FEATURED RESOURCES:
Back
to School - Great links to help
you and your students begin the school year in style.
 Instructional Strategies
- Looking for information and resources on various strategies? This
site contains a list of instructional strategies, valuable links, resources,
downloads and more.
Highlighted:
o
Anticipation
Guide o
KWL o
Literature
Circles o
Story
Mapping o
Book Talks, and more.
Pieces
of the Puzzle – Information and resources
on Assessment and Evaluation, Rubrics, Portfolios, and Performance Assessments.
- Consider
using a digital projector to project the multimedia items for entire class
viewing (Flash movies, interactive tours, graphing activities, etc).
- Many
of the sites have printable resources for students and teacher
facilitated lesson plans.
- Send
home website addresses connected to your classroom topics in your newsletters
or list them on your classroom websites. Parents and students can
explore the sites from home.
- Consider
assigning websites for additional practice, a place to begin research,
or as an enrichment activity.
- Use online
resources as CARE partner activities.
Web Sites for Teachers and Students
- With
New Eyes: Ideas for More Effective Teaching in a Multicultural
Environment - Respecting the diversity among your students.
- Addressing
Literacy Needs in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms -
This website describes how understanding and respecting the array of
different cultures and languages represented in their classrooms helps
educators adopt strategies for teaching literacy that will encourage and
support student achievement.
- Classroom
Instruction That Works with English Language Learners – Read
sample chapters from this book. This book is intended to offer help for
elementary school teachers who have English language learners in their
classrooms for all or part of the instructional day and is based on the
work of Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock, Classroom Instruction That Works.
- The
Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners by
Carol Ann Tomlinson - Read
four sample chapters of this book online to help refine practice.
- Poetry Listening Booth - Find wonderful audio clips of poets reading some
of their most loved works, including Robert Frost reading "The Road
Not Taken", and "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Acrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things (From ReadWriteThink) - Use this lesson to
explore your students' sense of self through an acrostic poem;
perfect for a beginning of school year literacy, art, and social
activity. An ABC wordlist is included to help younger students. This
activity addresses personal reflection and creative writing along with
spelling and phonemic awareness.
- Interactive
Acrostic Poems - This is a very cool tool for students to explore
poetry in an interactive, fun, and friendly format. Students will choose
a theme, and then brainstorm up to eight words for their topic. As
they click forward through the exercise, the acrostic generator offers
suggestions for each letter of their chosen theme word to start them
off. A printable version is offered when the students are satisfied with
their final copies.
- Getting
To Know You Poem Template - You can use this poetry template at the
beginning of the school year for a great exercise in getting to know
your students, allowing them to have their say about what is important
to them and what makes each of them unique.
- Student Guide to Book
Reports - Check out this
helpful student guide to writing book reports. It covers everything from
selecting a book to writing your final draft.
- Better
Book Reports -- 25 Ideas! - (from Education World) Tired of the same old
book report formats? Spice up those old book reports with some new
ideas. Check out the bulletin board idea, Book Report Sandwiches!
- Books Alive!
- When middle school students create a book report, they use PowerPoint
to describe the best elements of what they read.
- Strategies for
Empowering Students – A teacher-friendly site providing
classroom activity exercises geared to building character education. The
lessons are divided into three sections: primary, intermediate, and
upper level.
- SafeWater.org - Several education
programs based on curriculum connections in various subjects (science,
math, social studies, Native studies, etc.), which will help students
learn about issues surrounding safe drinking water
If
you would like to contribute websites, lesson plans or ideas on how you have
used
online
resources in your classroom, send your ideas to byersj@spsd.sk.ca
Browse previous issues of newsletters
at http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/news.htm
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