David Warlick at 2ยข Worth lays out some simple points on writing to communicate. These tips apply particularly well to writing for an online audience where page width can range from around 8 inches to at least twice that, making for extremely long lines, and where typical visual landmarks/cues, like left and right pages, page [...]
[via TechLearning.com] Harry Grover Tuttle, writing for TechLearning, offers 14 tips for integrating technology to enhance reading instruction. Some suggestions require more specific resources or are incompatible with our filtering, but several can be implemented in essentially any classroom setting with commonly available computing tools. Target grades: Varied
I came across and briefly found myself addicted to this language arts resource this summer. “Word Frog provides practice in matching antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms. The target word appears on the frog, with the word category underneath, defining the relationship to be matched.” The producers of this resource, Arcademic, have other word and math games [...]
