Online Tools for Strengthening Literacy Skills

(Most of these web sites can be found at www.barbbumgardner.com.)

Student Resources

Big 6 - www.big6.org/kids - helps students with information skills as they go through the steps required to complete a project. Assignment organizer.

Kidsclick www.kidsclick.org - search tool

NoteStar http://notestar.4teachers.org - take notes from online sources as you browse the Internet.

Project Poster - http://poster.hprtec.org/ - students can post their projects on the web.

Puzzlemaker www.puzzlemaker.com - great for vocabulary activities

Read, Write, Think www.readwritethink.org - FANTASTIC Interactive activities. Click on Student materials.

Teach- nology - http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/ - create and print graphic organizers (Venn Diagrams, KWLs, timelines and more)

The WebQuest Page http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

Think Tank http://thinktank.4teachers.org - research organizer

WebQuest Taskonomy - http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/tasksimap/

WebQuest Templates - http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/buildingblocks/p-index.htm

Writing Den- http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/contents.htm - writing tips

Yahooligans www.yahooligans.com - search tool

Applying Blooms Taxonomy -http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm

Models of Effective Technology Integration http://www.netc.org/classrooms@work/index.html

Put Reading First - http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/reading_first1.html

Technology Integration Activities -http://www.canby.k12.or.us/Technology/Integration/activities.html