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Information Literacy:
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Read and Understand Your Information

What the Research Tell Us about Literacy • Book: "Read Anything Good Lately?" - Susan Allen ISBN 0761318895
Strategies Make Active Readers Think • SMART Reading Poster (pdf) • Strategies are Key (pdf) • Learning Log (pdf) • Teaching Nonfiction - lessons by Scholastic	Nonfiction Text Features • Web Walk (pdf) • *ReadWriteThink Lessons:* 1. Hints about Print 2. Traveling Terrain: Comprehending Nonfiction Text on the Web 3. Compare Electronic and Print Text - Civil War topic lesson
Book: "Nonfiction Passages with Graphic Organizers" - Scholastic book with comprehension questions, a graphic organizer, and a writing prompt for each selection; grade 2-4, grade 4-up
Fact Fragment Frenzy ReadWriteThink	Flip Book ReadWriteThink
Barb's Graphic Organizers (pdf) • Main Idea - 4 Topics (or Word file) • Main Idea - 6 Topics (or Word file) • Timeline (or Word file) • Story or Event Map (or Word file) • Venn Diagram (or Word file) • Comparison (or Word file) • Compare and Contrast (or Word file)	Graphic Organizers • Education Place Graphic Organizers • Graphic Organizers - Be sure to click on the five categories for more graphic organizers by Education Oasis • Scholastic Graphic Organizers • ReadWriteThink Student Materials - go through the list to find several graphic organizer tools • Washington St Reading GLE's (Select "GLE Support Documents" in menu bar to locate graphic organizers)
Kidspiration and Inspiration Tutorials and Lesson Ideas
Kidspiration - $ • Kidspiration Ideas by Grade Level • Kidspiration 2.1 Update	Inspiration - $ • Inspiration Lessons by Grade Level • Inspiration 8 Update
Idea Book - "The Thinking Classroom: Using Inspiration® to Meet Curriculum Standards"	Visions: Lesson Idea books for Kidspiration and Inspiration Type Inspiration or Kidspiraton into the "Product Search" box in top left corner
Powerful Paragraphs • Paragraph - Hamburger Pict-pdf • Paragraph - Hamburger Words-pdf • Paragraph Rubric - Teachnology	Visual Thesaurus - $ Lesson Plan Ideas
Read Write Think (also see Language Arts section)	Carson-Dellosa Books, etc - $ Put the number for each book in the "Search Box" top left: • Bulletin board set, book, etc. #0057 • Comprehension Cubes #1053 • Notetaking #1597 • Search "six traits" in search box
Notetaking - New Ideas • NoteStar • Showing Evidence
Copyright for Students • Cyberbee Copyright Questions