[Replicable Practices] Ontario Ministry of Education: Think Literacy Library

The Ontario Ministry of Education using the student success umbrella presents the Think Literacy Library. 

Teachers can find:

• Subject-Specific Strategies, Grades 7-12
• Professional Learning
• Professional References: Boys' Literacy Teacher Inquiry

[Replicable Practices] Strategic Reading Resource Center

Has developed a great web resource that is "designed to help secondary teachers integrate strategic reading instruction into their curriculum." The subsidiary site contains links to a number of excellent resources.

Copied directly from the site:

• Strategy Tool Box - Brief descriptions of reading strategies for teachers to use in their classes.
• Teacher-Tested Strategies - Practicing teachers used these strategies and created a database of what works.
• Web Links - Links will take you to other strategic reading sites.
• Research - The Department of Education site to inform educators about research supporting strategic reading in secondary education.
• Bibliography - Great resources in print and media that can help teachers help their students.

 

[Replicable Practices] Slideshare.net

I stumbled across this website when doing a search for Persuasive Writing. Copied directly from the About Us link on Slideshare.net:

SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. With 50 million monthly visitors and 90 million pageviews, it is amongst the most visited 250 websites in the world. Besides presentations, SlideShare also supports documents, PDFs, videos and webinars. SlideShare features a vibrant professional and educational community that regularly comments, favorites and downloads content....Anyone can view presentations & documents on topics that interest them, download them and reuse or remix for their own work.

You can create a free account, customize your search or go directly to their Education Category. 

[Replicable Practices] Please Sir, Honestly ... I know how to write a paragraph! OSSLT Preparations

Ontario Secondary School Literacy Prep

This is a the second in a series of posts that examines some of the resources I had bookmarked when I was preparing replicable practice resources for my GLE2O1 class. The primary way that I used and modified this resource was to help prepared the students for the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test.

1. Improve your English with WritingDEN! (Tips-O-Matic for Sentences / Paragraphs / Essays)
2. Writing Fun by Jenny Eather (Using text organizers to assist students with the writing process)
3. Persuasive Writing Websites for Teachers and Secondary Students
4. District School Board of Niagara and Westlane Secondary School present Summer Literacy Project
5. Digital Literacies - Persuasive Writing by Kevin Cummins (Slideshare Presentation)

[Replicable Practices] Wellbeing Toronto

A new site was launched about the City of Toronto. A valuable tool for several reasons. It helps satisfy the curiosity that Torontonians have about where they live. Comparisons can be made between neighbourhoods to help people make decisions. Students can use the site through a number of school subjects such as careers, civics, geography, urban planning, business, environmental studies, math etc. Teachers can use another visual and technological means to give students other perspectives.

Wellbeing Toronto

Copied directly from Wellbeing Toronto:

Wellbeing Toronto is a new web-based measurement and visualization tool that helps evaluate community wellbeing across the city's 140 neighbourhoods. Using geographic information software, Wellbeing Toronto allows you to select, combine and weight the significance of a number of indicators that monitor neighbourhood wellness. The results appear instantly on easy to read maps, tables and graphs. This free tool supports decision making and seeks to engage citizens and businesses in understanding the challenges and opportunities of creating and maintaining healthy neighbourhoods. You can also find detailed demographic information about each neighbourhood.

[Replicable Practices] Please Sir, Honestly ... no more OSSLT Preparations!

Ontario Secondary School Literacy Prep

This is a the first in a series of posts that examines some of the resources I had bookmarked when I was preparing replicable practice resources for my GLE2O1 class. The primary way that I used and modified this resource was to help prepared the students for the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test.

University of Manitoba Virtual Learning Commons

The University of Manitoba Virtual Learning Commons hosts a series of resources designed to help their students to improve their writing.

The resource can be adapted and modified to match the level of learning for any student.Make sure to click the Plagiarism and Academic Integrity link for the main resources I used.

Plagiarism and Academic Integrity

[Replicable Practices] Please Teacher Can We Watch A Video? Wingclips.com

Conversation Sparkler

Ask a student what they learned in school and almost all of the time their memory becomes foggy, hazy, blurred and even forgetful. Their replies are short, elusive and dodgy. A word stumbles out of their mouth..."nothing."

Ask the same student if they can describe their favorite movie or to recite their favorite movie quote and magically they are transformed into giving an accurate, detailed and succinct reply.

Whenever possible I try to incorporate video clips into my lessons. Very popular in lesson introductions but also useful to reinforce concepts or to be used as conversation sparklers.

WingClips.com

 WingClips.com is a website that I often refer to when I need "movie clips that illustrate and inspire." The website is subscription based (there is a free sign up with limitations). You can search the video clips library through a search box or you can select clips based on movie title, scripture (requires registration), category or theme.