Drama:
- Our very own World Book Database has a Dramatic Learning section with over 47 complete plays, with accompanied lesson plans, various teaching tools, rubrics, play starters, posters for plays, monologues, & more (once logged in go to World Book Classroom)
Lexile Tools:
- Lexile level to grade chart: lexile.com
- Level finder : For a grade/student or find a book:http://www.lexile.com/fab/
- Find a book's lexile or age range: same site as above just use 'Quick Search' in upper left corner.
- Lexile Analyzer: Type in the text from a book and find its lexile. You need to register to use the site:
- http://www.lexile.com/analyzer/
Anne Frank & the Holocaust
- search created by our librarian, Mr. T - you can use search terms such as:
- 1920s, 1930s, depression, stock market, dust bowl, roaring 20s, causes of WWI, causes of WWII, New Deal, and try more & different terms!
- 2-Day & 5 Holocaust Stations in the Library -designed by librarian specialists - reviewing background history; following the lives of children in the Holocaust, & much more! -See Mr.T. for details.
- Ladder of Prejudice: http://www.tolerance.org/exchange/ladder-prejudice
- Modern day Genocide: onemillionbones.org
- Teaching Genocide: great list of resources here - definitely look at the top/first 3: http://onemillionbones.squarespace.com/genocide-resources/
- Stories & documents: http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/about/yadvashem.html
- Researching -Tons of resources: http://www.infotopia.info/holocaust.html
- Great site of Anne's story w/audio and walk around in the 3-D interactive of the Secret Annex: ICTmagic
- - Googlelittrips - events in a novel about Anne Frank are mapped out on Google Earth trips: - Googlelittrips
Poetry:
-Teaching Poetry devices through songs and rap:
- Learning Lab - with questions and activities for specific poems and a audiovisual poems: thePoetryFoundation
- Eight stations created by several NISD librarian to engage students & review poetry devices & TEKS. -See Mr. T. for details.
- View poems as they roll across screen of large smartphone (1,000s of poems to choose from) : poetryflow
Literature Resources:
- - Googlelittrips - events in a novel are mapped out on Google Earth trips: Googlelittrips
- Create your own lit. trips - " allows teachers and students to synthesize information in one easy-to-use map that places text, pictures, audio files, video files, and much more in one central location. " :http://www.googletreks.org/
- Great Resource - Encouraging active reading by technology connections to lit. : Literature Learning Ladders