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Internet Integration That 

Improves Reading

-High School-

Internet Resources

Vocabulary

Vocabulary Strategies

  • Four Vocabulary Strategies for High School Students
    http://litsite.alaska.edu/workbooks/readingvocabulary.html 

  • Vocabulary Strategies
    http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/vocabulary.htm 
    (for additional analogies, see Science Analogies)

  • Secondary Content Teacher Reading Strategies (scroll down to Vocabulary section)
    http://www.ops.org/reading/secondarystrat1.htm 

  • Pre-Reading Organizer - Categorize vocabulary words based on prior knowledge and write an anticipation statement. (pdf file)

Online Practice

  • Vocabulary University 
    http://www.vocabulary.com

  • A.Word.A.Day
    http://www.wordsmith.org/words/today.html 

  • Word Game of the Day
    http://www.m-w.com/game/ 

  • Funster - Free registration
    http://www.funster.com/ 

  • SAT and GRE Vocabulary 

    • SAT and GRE Games Online 

    • SAT Vocabulary links

  • Create your own

    • Puzzlemaker - 
      http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com

    • EdHelper: Word Search Puzzles - create your own
      http://www.edhelper.com/wordfind.htm#optionsan 

    • Quia - $49/year subscription (30 day free trial)
      http://www.quia.com/ 
      Search shared activities (Click Popular Categories)

  • Read/Write/Think - Lesson Plans
    http://www.readwritethink.org 

    • Vocabulary Lesson Plans

Online Resources and Tools

  • Merriam-Webster Online - on-line Dictionaries, a Thesaurus, Word Games, a Word of the Day
    http://www.m-w.com/  (see OneLook: Dictionary Search for a list of additional Dictionaries)

  • Online Rhyming Dictionary
    http://www.writeexpress.com/online2.html 

  • Voycabulary - makes the words on any web page into links so that you can look them up with just a click!
    http://www.voycabulary.com/

  • Wordsmyth - Use the Wordsmyth toolbar button to look up any word on any web page.
    http://www.wordsmyth.net 

  • Visual Thesaurus - an interactive map showing the meaning of your word.
    No longer free - $39.95 CD or $19.95/year online version
    http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp 

Articles

  • Visualizing Vocabulary  

  • Teaching Vocabulary to Adolescents to Improve Comprehension 

 

Text Comprehension

Comprehension Strategies

  • Background Knowledge:  Assessing and Building 

    • Assessment Example:  Anticipation Guide

    • Building Example:  Autobiography of ex-slave Gustavus Vassa

      • United Streaming Video "Slave Ship"

        • Use focus questions while watching video and discuss after

        • Student Generated Unanswered Questions

      • Read Primary Source Autobiography

    *From Discovery Education Classroom Resource Guide - May 2006


  • Active Reading Strategies
    http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/active.htm 

  • Summarizing - Main Idea, Details http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/strat/
    summarize.html 

  • Reading Strategies:  Scaffolding Students' Interaction with Text

  • Tools for Reading, Writing and Thinking

  • Technology Integration Resources:  Strategies that Work
    http://www.mayer.cps.k12.il.us/Strategies_that_Work/
    STW.htm 

  • Specific Reading Comprehension Strategies
    http://www.muskingum.edu/~cal/database/general/
    reading.html 

  • Strategies for Reading Comprehension - 27 Reading Strategies http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/strat/

  • Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
    http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=95 

  • Before-During-After Framework:  When to use Specific Reading Strategies
    http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/strat/
    bdaframe.html 

  • SCORE: Graphic Organizers - http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm 

Lessons and  Web Based Activities

  • Read/Write/Think 
    http://www.readwritethink.org 

    • Comprehension Lesson Plans

  • Cyberguides Grades 9-12
    http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy912.html 

  • Literary Grafatti - http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/
    student_material.asp?id=23 

  • Internet Hunts 
    http://lttechno.com/links/hunts.html     

  • WebQuests 
    http://webquest.org/ 

  • Weblogs
    http://www.lttechno.edublogs.org/ 

  • Wiki - http://pbwiki.com/ 
    Example:  http://webtools.pbwiki.com/ 

eBooks

Reading Sources

  • eBooks:  Project Gutenberg - online published books that are in the public domain or with copyright holder's permission http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ 

  • Free eBook Library from the Microsoft Reader and Palm
    http://etext.virginia.edu/ebooks/ 

  • Diesel eBooks - free (in MS Reader Format)
    http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/
    category.cgi?category=freesubject 

  • Baen Free Library - Science Fiction Books
    http://www.baen.com/library/ 

  • Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and more
    http://bartleby.com/ 

Software

  • Microsoft Reader for Desktop and Laptop PC
     http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/pc.asp 

  • Microsoft Text to Speech - http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/
    downloads/tts.asp 

  • Microsoft Encarta Pocket Dictionary - use the Lookup feature in Microsoft Reader to translate instantly — with a single click.
    http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/
    dictionaries.asp 
  • Create Your Own Microsoft Reader eBooks
    http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/
    downloads/rmr.asp 

 

Reading Strategies with eBooks

  • eBooks and Reading: eBook Reading Strategies
    http://drscavanaugh.org/ebooks/ebrs/intro.htm 

 

 

 
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