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RESOURCES FOR TEACHING
LANGUAGE ARTS
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 | Best Lesson Plan Websites for Educators contains
over 500 sites, complete with annotations. It also comes with a
CD with Internet addresses for each site. |
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50 Graphic Organizers for Reading, Writing, & More not only gives you 50 graphic organizers that can be used in almost
any subject area, it also explains graphic organizers, gives reasons for
using them, and gives tips for creating your own graphic organizers.
In addition, for each graphic organizer, you are provided with a
description of it, procedures for using it, variations, and a completed
example.
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I do not actually have Organizing Thinking: Book I: Graphic Organizers. However, Book II is excellent, so I am assuming that this book is as well.
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| Organizing Thinking: Book II: Graphic Organizers
is the best book for graphic organizers I have ever seen. The first
chapter provides blackline master graphs with instructions for using each
one. The remaining chapters show the graphic organizers being
utilized in specific lessons for the content areas. Completed
examples are also provided. |
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Hooked on Language Arts is a 243 page book which contains over 130 ready-to-use activities for writing,
reading, literature, words, sentences, speaking, and listening. Most ideas
require very little teacher preparation time.
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81 Fresh & Fun Critical Thinking Activities is a source which contains activities that are more fun than
traditional worksheets. Concepts covered include following
directions, sequencing, making inferences, drawing conclusions, as well as
other across the curriculum concepts. Each unit is introduced with
cross-curricular links and teacher notes for the student
reproducibles. Some of the activities work well as
time-fillers.
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