A Day with ReadWriteThink: Tools, Apps, Technology across the Curriculum

1. A Day with ReadWriteThink.org: Tools, Apps, Technology across the Curriculum

2. ReadWriteThink.org, created by the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), provides instructional practices and digital resources that support effective reading and language arts instruction for all learners.

3. Who’s Behind ReadWriteThink.org? The National Council of Teachers of English http://www.ncte.org The International Reading Association http://www.reading.org

4. How is ReadWriteThink.org Different from Other Lesson Plan Sites? • Each resource on the ReadWriteThink site is based on the NCTE-IRA Standards for the English Language Arts. • Lesson plans are aligned to State Standardsand the Common Core State Standards • Each lesson plan includes a “Theory to Practice” section which cites an NCTE or IRA publication and is peer-reviewed by qualified educators in the field. • Resources in the lesson plan are complete, and linked – ex. assessments, online texts, Web links, handouts, etc. • We offer free student interactive tools and mobile apps.

5. What Does ReadWriteThink.org Have to Offer? • Classroom resources by grade levels • Lists of the most popular resources • RSS feeds, e-mail, sharing, and commenting • Keyword and filter search • Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources • Online Student Interactive Tools • Mobile Apps

6. Let’s take a look at how ReadWriteThink.org resources and tools can be integrated throughout the day!

7. Morning Meeting ReadWriteThink.org Calendar October 12 “Teen Read Week”

8. Language Arts Text Messages Podcast Series Episode 9 — A Conversation with John Green

9. Reading and Literature With so many great YA titles being made into films, like The Fault in Our Stars, Divergent, The Giver, Maze Runner, and If I Stay, invite students to compare and analyze novels and the movies adapted from them. They can then design new DVD covers and a related inserts for the movies, reflecting their response to the movie version using the lesson plan, “Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies”. While watching the film, have students “Think Critically about the Movie Adaptation: Effects and Preferences.”

10. Writing In this lesson plan, students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading. This process of recasting the text they are reading in a different genre helps students become more insightful readers and develop creativity in thinking and writing.

11. Writing Students can create their poems on paper, online or on a mobile device. This video demo shows you how the Word Mover app works. Like to use apps? Check out our other mobile apps!

12. Science For this lesson students examine the differences between physical and chemical changes. After understanding these changes, in small groups students follow instructions for making popcorn, photographing each step. Then students create a video using the SonicPics app to narrate their photos and answer questions about this change.

13. Working with Pre-Service Teachers A student teacher observed the popcorn lesson and expressed concern about using technology with students. S/he hopes to learn more about how to do this successfully.

14. Strategy GuidesTeaching with Technology • Using Glogster to SupportMultimodal Literacy • Online Safety • Reading Online • Teaching With Blogs • Teaching With Podcasts • Reading on the Go • Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto • Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki • Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi • Teaching With Glogster: Using Virtual Posters in the Classroom

15. Social Studies/History In this lesson, students will develop their understanding of writing and local history by creating their own historical markers. They begin by studying historical markers in their own communities and then draft content for an unmarked historical location.

16. Mathematics After a read-aloud from the book Math Curse, students create their own word problems with answers. Students solve each other's problems and then use the skills they've learned creating word problems to complete a crossword puzzle.

17. Health After researching nutrition and analyzing food advertisements, students work in cooperative groups to create their own advertisements for food products. Interested in applying this knowledge and these skills outside of school?

18. Health Encourage children and teens to make healthful food choices by having them explore the foods they eat and the ways those foods are advertised.

19. Staff Meeting • Afterschool, I want to share the great resources from ReadWriteThink with my colleagues at our staff meeting. I can share with them: • Standards Alignment • Site Demonstrations from the Video Library • Promotional Materials • Spanish Resources

20. Educator Involvement at ReadWriteThink.org • Writing lesson plans, sharing teaching ideas, • creating content for an out-of-school audience • Contributing professional development materials • Submitting video, audio or other technologies to • enhance resources • Joining the Review Panel • Sharing their Story

21. What’s Upcoming with ReadWriteThink?

22. Connected Educator Month If you could revise a RWT lesson right now, which one would it be? #ourRWT National Day on Writing, Oct 20 #writemycommunity NCTE Annual Convention November 20-23, 2014

23. Find Us and Fan Us! ReadWriteThink.org on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ReadWriteThink.org ReadWriteThink.org on Twitter @RWTnow In the Literacy in Learning Exchange http://www.literacyinlearningexchange.org/group/readwritethinkorg

24. Questions?Contact me! Lisa Storm Fink at lfink@ncte.org or @fink_girl on Twitter