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Reading
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
--Louis L'Amour
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.
--Franklin P. Jones
Outside
of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark
to read.
--Groucho Marx
| Probably the best collection of reading resources anywhere! Hundreds of sites, searchable by keyword, subject or lesson topic from the Florida Online Reading Professional Development (FOR-PD) course and project, a free professional development course for Florida teachers. | |
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| Quality reading recommendations by grade level PK-12. Includes book cover images and some additional links. Updated frequently. | |
| Over 2,000 free online books, poems, stories--fiction and non fiction. | |
| Sure, you've heard about acronyms and homonyms and probably even pseudonyms, but do you know what a capitonym is? How about a charactonym? eponym? toponym? Building your vocabulary with vocabulary! | |
| Test preparations for grades 1 through 8 from Longman publishers. Includes a list of tips for students to consider when taking a test. | |
| Put phrases in meaningful sequence to make a complete sentence and let the monkey cross the bridge. | |
| Instructional
Resources Database: Instructional Activities |
Search for research based activities in comprehension, phonemic awareness, decoding, semantics, syntax by level of reader (pre-reader, emergent reader, developing reader) in the database from the Southwest Educational Development Lab (SEDL). |
| Six
Essential Comprehension Strategies |
Making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, determining importance and synthesizing: together they represent the active mindset children must assume in order to become effective learners as well as readers. Lesson steps for explicit instruction. |
| Technology & Reading | |
| How to encourage students to read online books and stories. Links to lots of different types of online reading resources by grade level and type. | |
| Links to ezines on the web, suitable for students of all ages. Selected to represent the online equivalent of magazines currently held in many school libraries. By subject area. | |
Using the Internet to promote and celebrate literacy. Focuses on Cyberguides and WebQuests. |
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| Encouraging active reading through book-technology connections. From Annette Lamb. Literature circles, interactive projects, webquests, award winning books and related resources. Outstanding! | |
| Book Reports & Alternatives | |
| Alternatives to traditional (and boring) book reports. | |
| Three (more) pages of alternatives to those dreaded book reports. | |
| Beowulf in less than one page? Huck Finn in three lines? See these ultra-condensed classics. Trick is, you have to know the work to get the joke! Maybe kids can write their own? | |
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Florida SUNLINK Project • University of Central Florida
Last updated August 2006