LiteracyTuesday2013

= Build Literacy Success with Technology = Tuesday, December 17 • 12:15pm - 1:05pm

Literacy does not need to take a back seat once technology is introduced to the classroom. Strong literacy skills still foster success in all areas of academics. Come learn some ways iPads and other digital tools can be used hand-in-hand with literacy instruction.


 * For a three hour version and a PDF handout of the links below, **
 * visit my Literacy Session from Sunday's Preconference. **

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The Digital Learner
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 * Ed Leadership: Research Says / The Reading Skills Digital Brains Need
 * Daily Mail: Are our brains being boggled by Google?
 * Digital Native Map
 * F-Shaped Pattern for Reading Web Content

Engaging Reading Resources
Google Lit Trips Author Connections > [] Tween Tribune
 * Google Lit Trips []
 * Google Earth on iPads[]
 * Kate Messner’s Authors who Skype with book clubs for free
 * Skype and Author Wiki [|http://skypeanauthor.wikifoundry.com]
 * Scholastic’s Invite an Author[]
 * TweenTribune Junior, Grades K-4 []
 * TweenTribune, Grades 5-8 []
 * TeenTribune, Grades 9-12 []
 * Spanish []

Tool Based Strategies
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 * National Institute of Health: Effect of print side on reading speed in dyslexia
 * eHow Education: How Font Size Affects Reading Ability
 * EduKindle: More Research Says Bigger Fonts Help Kids Read
 * Telegraph: Hard to read fonts can boost pupil results

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 * Bookshare [|https://www.bookshare.org]
 * Lit2Go http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
 * Dragon Dictation – text to speech
 * Google Translate [|http://translate.google.com]
 * Speak Text Free- Speak and translate text documents and web pages

Reading Strategies
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 * Reading Rocket’s Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension
 * Socrative Seminar with TodaysMeet.com (video)
 * Scholastic: 5 Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency
 * Closing in on Close Reading
 * The Case for Reader Friendly Articles
 * Adolescent Literacy Summarizing

Tools > [|http://www.readworks.org] > []
 * Audioboo []
 * Recordium [|http://recordiumapp.com]
 * Recordmp3.org (web) [|http://www.recordmp3.org]
 * Audioboo Samples:
 * First Recording: []
 * Second Recording: []
 * ReadWorks – Finding Passages for Literacy Practice
 * NewsELA – an innovative way for students to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news.
 * ELM Databases [|http://www.elm4you.org]
 * Britannica – Multiple reading levels
 * Infotrac – Lists number of words

Graphic Organizers > [] > [] > [] > [] > []
 * Keys to Literacy worksheets
 * Read Write Think mobile apps
 * Notability’s Papers
 * Eduplace’s Graphic Organizers
 * Scholastic’s Graphic Organizers

PDF Writers

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 * Paperport Notes
 * Penultimate
 * Notability:
 * Two Column Note Tempate

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 * ThingLink [|http://www.thinglink.com]
 * Poem Sample []
 * ThingLink Educator update:

Writing to Learn
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 * Learning to Write and Writing to Learn by Joan Sedita
 * Smithsonian Magazine: The Legend of the Qwerty Keyboard
 * ReadWriteThink’s Teaching with Blogs
 * iBrainstorm [|http://www.ibrainstormapp.com]
 * Google Form example []

Tools > []
 * Short ULRs and QR Codes [|https://bitly.com] and [|http://goo.gl]
 * Chirp App- send documents with sound []
 * Google Docs []
 * Pirate Pad []
 * Kidblog Sample []
 * StoryKit – Create an electronic storybook []
 * Creative Book Builder – Build an ePub book simply
 * StoryPress – Spoken story app - [|http://www.storypress.com]
 * Smore: Digital Fliers []

Chrome App Options
 * Chrome Speak – Text to Speech
 * VoiceNote – Speech to Text
 * Dictionary by Dictionary.com
 * Google Translate – Language Translation
 * MindMeister – Brainstorming
 * StoryPress – Spoken Story App
 * AudioBoo – Audio Recordings
 * PDFzen - PDF Viewer & Editor
 * Scan QR – QR Code Reader

Image Sources

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