Where Can You Find Free Books Online? eBooks should’ve been a game-changing technology. The idea was simple enough: no longer did you need to travel to the library to wade through rows and stacks and floors and buildings and card catalogs only to wag home only as much as you could carry. Or risk spending…
Digital reading, hyperlinks, and Tweets can provide all of our text consumption without second thought–especially for the youth.
Improve Student Vocabulary: 600 Other Ways to Say Common Things Your students are bright, but they don’t always sound like it. Their writing is full of cliche and emaciated language that doesn’t reflect their inner voice, nor does it indicate their vocabulary level. You want your students to use specific language that demonstrates the intended…
When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education Readers of the blog no doubt know that the title of this post refers to the general discussions taking place nationally around the ELA Common Core Standards – especially, in light of the firm words from David Coleman himself about what close reading does…
Sketch notes aren’t just a trend, but rather a new visual style of capturing and documenting ideas for the 21st century student.
What digital tools allow students to communicate in new ways, but with a clear sense of audience, purpose, and application of the writing process?
Catching Up With The Kids: Moving School Libraries Into The New Media Era Libraries have done a world of good for schools. They provide a self-directed learning environment and a quiet place to work and study — not to mention the wealth of carefully organized stories, articles, reference materials and other information for students to…
I think we can all agree that the tone of digital communication is decidedly different than that which occurs face to face. (At TeachThought, we’re unfortunately huge fans of the sarcastic and the sardonic.) While this shift in tone could be further proof of the internet’s complete dissolution of decent human interaction, that’s probably a…
A List Of Writing Prompts To Use In Any Class Tomorrow Math Defend or critique: Statistics lie. Answer: How does math support critical thinking? Respond: “The essence of mathematics is its freedom.” (G. Cantor) Science Defend or critique: Science has limits. Answer: What is most important about a scientific model? Respond: “Nothing in life is…
From libraries and classrooms to teachers, technology, and eBooks, here are 101 blogs about schools, books, & libraries.
Guide: How To Google Search By Reading Level by TeachThought Staff Update: This feature has been (either temporarily or permanently) removed by Google. We will update this post if that changes. In the meantime, check out How To Google Search by Date for smarter search results. Digital media have changed almost everything about reading—from multimodal…
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