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 * Common Core Literacy Ideas K-8 **

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= **Links/files mentioned or used during this session:** =

[|TeachersFirst]

[|CCSS ELA Literacy Standards]

[|Help! I Lost My Librarian/Media Specialist]- Find GREAT articles about Common Core and more

=** K-8 Reading: Literature **=

[|Story Bee] - Hear professional storytellers share their tales.

[|Audio Books] available on TeachersFirst - featuring interactive and books with text

[|Poem Hunter] - a search engine for finding poems

[|Poetry Teachers] - find new strategies to teach poetry to K-6

[|CurriConnects] - find books related to curriculum topics or subject areas

= K-8 Reading: Informational Text =

[|Keyword search] on TeachersFirst (searching Informational Text)

[|GoGo News] - "Big" news site for young students to explore

[|National Geographic Kids] - news for kids with an environmental focus in a fun and easy to view format

= K-5 Foundation Skills (phonics, spelling, suffixes, and more) =

TeachersFirst [|preK] [| tag]- many relate to foundation skills

TeachersFirst [|phonics tag]

TeachersFirst [|sight words tag]

[|Reading Rockets] - keep kids reading with this engaging site

[|ABCya] - search and find a multitude of activities for K-5 (ABC magnets, alphabetical order, sight word bingo, and more)

= K-8 Writing =

[|Slick Write] – refine your writing with feedback about style, flow, structure, readability, and more

[|Virtual Sentence Board] - sentence writing and sight word skills for young students (K-2)

[|Write It] - publishing site for middle/high school students

[|Tildee] - create digital tutorials

[|Literacy Design Collaboration] - find templates to use when writing

[|Writing Fix] - create writing prompts on the spot, find interactive lessons to build stronger writers

= Speaking/Listening =

[|Spreaker] – create a live Internet radio show FREE

[|Listen a Minute] - one minute listening exercises on common topics (middle/high school)

[|Voicethread]  - narrate a picture

[|Presentation tools] from the TeachersFirst Edge

= Language/Grammer =

[|Grammar Practice Park] - Grade 3

[|Grammar Practice Park] - Grade 5

[|Word Hippo] - word study tool for rhyming words, plurals, definitions, synonyms, and more

[|Word Clouds for Kids] (from ABCya - mentioned earlier in the session)

[|Tagcrowd] - save your word could as a printable pdf