Thursday, October 30, 2008

Halloween PD with Lyn and Manami

"Reading is a different task when we read literature, science texts, historical analysis, newspapers, tax forms. This is why teaching students to read the texts of academic discipline is a key part of teaching them these disciplines."
(Key Ideas of the Strategic Literacy Initiative, 2001)

Useful links for Literacy Across the Content Areas:


Why use technology in your classroom?
-Differentiates instruction 
-Facilitates higher level thinking
-Students are motivated by it













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