Alexis Morgan’s Blog

These are my links for December 4th through December 6th:

• What Will Happen Next? – This learning activity is a worksheet designed to help students understand prediction. Students look at the picture provided and draw a corresponding one where they decide what will happen next. Links to teacher resources are included.
• ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts – Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
• Teacher’s Guide for Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg – Houghton Mifflin’s Teacher’s Guide for Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg
• Guided Reading – If You Give A Mouse a Cookie:: Lesson Plan, Activity, or Teaching Idea from A to Z Teacher Stuff –
• Kidspiration Flat Stanley – Parts of a Story PRE-VOC Activity –
• ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Using a Predictable Text to Teach High-Frequency Words – Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
• ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Guess What?s in the Bag: A Language-based Activity – Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
• Scholastic Lesson plans –
• pdf document –

These are my links for November 15th through December 1st:

• BrainPOP Jr. | Synonyms and Antonyms | Lesson Ideas –
• What?s Another Word For…? What?s the Opposite Of…? | Scholastic.com – Try these bright [syn. brilliant, glowing] ideas for teaching synonyms, then turn students’ thinking upside-down with antonym activities.
• Bookreporter.com –
• Mind, Brain, and Education: Sessions –
• Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China – Yahoo! News – While the U.S. remains mired in an economic funk, the Asian giant drives ceaselessly forward. On the eve of Obama’s first visit there, a look at what the world’s rising power can teach the U.S. now

These are my links for August 30th through November 12th:

• Brain Games –
• EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing –
• 100 Great Google Docs Tips for Students –
• Interview: A Conversation With Wendelin Van Draanen*Writers Write — The IWJ* –
• The College Issue – Those Who Write, Teach – NYTimes.com –

These are my links for July 1st through July 16th:

• Investigating open source software and educational robotics –
• pdf document –
• Seventeen Interesting Ways* to use Voicethread in the Classroom –
• 7 Things You Should Know About VoiceThread | EDUCAUSE –
• Philippians 1:6-8 –

These are my links for June 20th through June 22nd:

• Google For Educators – Book Search –
• Tools ?(Google Teacher Academy Resources)? – Provided By Google Certified Teachers
• Even more lessons ?(Google Almanac)? –
• pdf document –
• pdf document –

These are my links for May 2nd through June 17th:

• Learning Vocabulary Fun (Test Preparation – Improve your vocabulary while having fun. Test Preparation
• Vocabulary.com – Vocabulary University participants learn thematic vocabulary words by using interactive puzzles with words in sentence context, crosswords, word exercises and activities.
• Free GRE General Test Preparation Materials –
• GRE Essay Prep : Preparing for GRE AWA Essay Questions – Prepare for the GRE essay section with our prep guides and essay grading service. Take free timed practice essays, online tutoring, E-rater guide and the latest news about the GRE.
• GRE ARGUMENT ESSAY – GRE Argument Analysis Guide. Solution to GRE Argument Analysis essays from GreGuide.com. Increase your GRE Essay Scale score using these free online GRE Argument Essays
• Free GRE Online Demo and Practice Test – You can test your GRE knowledge, or just familiarize yourself with the GRE. You’ll get a GRE lesson and a full-length free GRE practice test.

These are my links for April 28th through May 2nd:

• Language Arts Standards – 3rd grade student performance skills –
• Using Inference – Using Inference – Reading Comprehension Worksheet
• How to Use iGoogle | eHow.com – How to Use iGoogle. iGoogle is Google’s customized landing page system that allows you to arrange your “perfect” home page, complete with access and preview of Google’s Gmail, customized RSS feeds, third-party add-in…
• Email interface design 101 –
• Gmail (Google Mail) – Free Email and Chat Service Review – About Email – Gmail is the Google approach to email and chat. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages, and Gmail’s simple but very smart interface lets you find them precisely and see them in context without effort.”><meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=8
• 10 Good Things About Offline Gmail –

These are my links for April 22nd through April 23rd:

• Guided Reading –
• Web English Teacher –
• Mrs. Cowan’s Guide to Guided Reading –
• pdf document –
• Differentiation in a Reader’s Workshop | Scholastic.com – Third grade teacher Marissa Ochoa shares ideas on meeting students’ individual needs. New and first year teachers will learn how to challenge their students to stretch their reading skills.

These are my links for February 23rd through April 21st:

• 26 Learning Games to Change the World | Mission to Learn –
• Creating Cross Campus Language Learning Communities –
• Photovisi – Create a wallpaper collage and more from your photos! –
• Follow-up activities for recording and videoing conversations –
• Nine Reasons to Twitter in Schools –
• Bitstrips: Education 2.0 –
• Intel Education: Designing Effective Projects: Biomes: Action for a Healthy Planet –
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These are my links for February 11th through February 20th:

• Kids.Net.Au – Search engine for kids, children, parents, educators and teachers – Searching sites designed for kids that are child safe. Includes a Thesaurus, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Toy Store. –
• Kitzu – Find, Learn, Create – Digital Kits for Education from the Orange County Department of Education.
• Skype in Schools / FrontPage –
• SMaRT Education Initiative – 1 to 1: My Fear? A feeding frenzy…. – This is an absolutely incredible blog post regarding the influx of stimulus money for 21st century classrooms and how it will (or won’t) impact student learning without attention paid to instructional practices.
• Writing Links in Comments | The Edublogger –
• ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Peer Edit With Perfection: Teaching Effective Peer-Editing Strategies – Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
• TEL.A.VISION Home | TEL.A.VISION – You have hopes. Dreams. Wishes. Desires. And Big Plans. Put them all together, and you?ve got yourself a vision. TELAVISION has the technology to bring your vision to life?via a powerful combination of words, imagery and music?and the Website to share your Vision Video with the world.