Language Focus
 
Explore your reading and language standards. How can you incorporate these required outcomes into a meaningful, authentic project? Explore three projects below as examples:
 
Activity 1: Explore Web-based Resources and Activities
Use the 42eXplore site. Each page contains an easy and hard definition, activities, and selected websites. Can the resources and information at the websites be integrated into classroom activities? Look at the 42explore models. Could you create your own 42eXplore project?
 
 
 
Activity 2: Reference Resources
Brainstorm an activity that could use the Research-It rhyming dictionary.

Use quotations in a project.

 
Use palidromes in a project.
 
Use Documenting the American South, Great Speeches, or Douglass: Great Speeches site for original speeches and documents.

 

Activity 3: Literature Ladders
Use the Literature Ladders area to identify resources to go with a book your students will be reading. For example, explore links for Newbery award winning books.
 
Activity 4: Locate Resources
Use the following starting points and resources for ideas for resources related to your area of interest.
 
 

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