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Mansfield/Richland County Public Library has games and reading activities for children and adult learners. This section will continue to grow, with additional activities for every facit of reading skill development. [|Sight word Practice]
 * Feb. 13, 2007 Online Reading Activities**

· the introduction · word study skills · reading comprehension (comprehension strategies and comprehension monitoring) · expository writing · persuasive writing · technology application for writing · assessment recommendations · transparencies for the various lessons http://www.cttech.org/central/curriculum/general-ed/Reading/
 * Feb. 10, 2007** **Framing Literacy: A Reading / English Language Arts Instructional Curriculum** - This curriculum was developed specifically to assist teachers in enhancing reading and writing skills of a select group of high school students during the summer. This curriculum is composed of eight sections. They are:

Adolescent Literacy from Learning Point - A collection of resources, tools, and information on adolescent literacy. This collection is intended to help practitioners, administrators, policymakers, and other stakeholders gather and apply knowledge of necessary elements of curriculum and instruction for adolescents with the goal of helping all students achieve success. http://www.learningpt.org/literacy/adolescent/


 * Feb. 7, 2007 - //The SEN Teacher websites w/downloads//**

This site has lots of printables and information for Special Needs students. But, the 'generators' can be used for many things. The generators make custom worksheets, hanouts, boes, etc. If you wanted to have a center for literacy in your library or class, you could use the literacy dice here: http://www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/23/Literacy.xhtml There are lots more here: http://www.senteacher.org/Print/ as well as downloads here: http://www.senteacher.org/Files/ Especially cool are the using computers downloads. Look at Childproof - that would certainly be useful: http://www.senteacher.org/FileDetails/23/Child%20Lock.xhtml


 * Feb. 6, 2007 - //Information and Resources//**

Check out this **excellent and interesting site** called Writing Fun by Jenny Eather http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/writingfun/writingfun.html There are lots of download and ideas to assist students with the writing Process.

1) Visualize concepts & situations 2) Summarize the main events or important ideas 3) Clarify confusing words, terms, & sentences, sometimes with an outside reference 4) Question the author & myself, when summarizing & clarifying 5) Connect the text with your own experiences, or other reading 6) Predict what will be covered next
 * What Can I do to Comprehend During Reading** [|Reading Chart for your Library]

[|**Can Johnny read yet?**] (2003) What the numbers revealed was that the nation's fourth-graders have made some progress in reading throughout the 1990s, while 12th-graders are actually doing worse. At the eighth-grade level, the lowest performing students made gains since 1998, when the test was last administered. Overall, however, eighth-grade scores remained fairly stagnant.There also was evidence that in some states - particularly in the Southeast - students are reading better. Also encouraging was evidence that in some areas and at some levels the gap between the reading skills of white students and minority students is narrowing. But overall, for many reformers, the results seemed mildly encouraging at best.

From ALA Editions From the book description: "...Time-strapped educators wonder whether partnering with teacher-librarians will realistically improve students’ scores. Drawing on cutting edge research in instructional strategies, Moreillon, a veteran teacher-librarian, offers a clear, rigorous roadmap to the task of teaching reading comprehension in a proven collaborative process.
 * Book: [|Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension] by** **Judi Moreillon**

Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension is packed with practical applications to: Price: $38.00 ALA Member Price: $34.20 8.5" X 11" Softcover ISBN-10: 0-8389-0929-9 © 2006
 * Streamline the co-teaching lesson-planning process
 * Encourage collaboration with a flexible design and delivery framework
 * Strengthen partnering techniques to improve reading comprehension
 * Address three levels of literacy development
 * Identify seven strategies that students use to read for meaning
 * Connect with research-driven teaching practices that incorporate library programs
 * Increase reading scores and lower the student-teacher ratios using proven collaborative approaches..."
 * ISBN-13: 978-0-8389-0929-4**