LITERACY

LITERACY RESOURCES

**ANGEL PROGRAM** Go to [|www.angelprogram.net] between March 1 and June 30 to estimate your enrollment for the following year and to recommend book titles (including for PreK students) that you would like to have available by the next fall. Books are discounted up to 40%.

** These 4 posters were created by a Florida Conference teacher in response to a workshop on how to teach students to "dissect a prompt." **
 * A, B, C's & D OF ON-WRITING DEMAND **

**BUILD A BOOK** - Free Account
====Build A Book, a K-12 cross-curriculum writing tool, is designed to engage students in writing. It gives students the ability to write, design, and narrate digital books online and allows parents, teachers, and administrators to evaluate student progress over time with customizable rubrics, teacher commentary, and student portfolios that are maintained year-after-year. Watch the informational video on YouTube [] then visit the website at [|www.eSchoolTools.com/home]. To sign up, visit [] to sign up.====

EVERYDAY READING FOR FLORIDA FAMILIES
Research tells us a student’s family support system is the number one predictor of success in school. When parents are involved in their children’s reading at home, children do better in school. The schools they attend do better, too. The Florida Department of Education created the Just Take 20 campaign to provide K-12 Florida families with practical, easy-to-implement reading activities that establish literacy as a lifelong value. Just Take 20 encourages families to seize everyday teachable moments by using 20 minutes a day to integrate reading into their busy lives. Families are invited to create their own custom literacy plans and have fun while learning! Encourage parents to explore this resource and sign up at [].

__** FREE LITERACY WEBSITES **__ [|www.starfall.com] Great literacy activities for K-2 students.

[|www.headsprout.com] Remedial program for students with reading problems. The first three students are free.

[|www.fcrr.org] The Florida Center for Reading Research has a wealth of information on reading, including has materials to print out and assemble for centers for grades K-5. Each activity coordinates with one of the areas noted by the National Reading Panel: phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.

[] Ideas and activities for phonological awareness. This handbook explains each stage of phonological awareness and provides activities that are simple to make and do.

[|www.freereading.net] Free reading curriculum for struggling readers in grades K-2

[] This website provides a reading program that some of our teachers have used for tutoring struggling readers. It comes highly recommended!

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This site has absolutely wonderful resources for both teachers and students for grades K-5 for reading and language arts (similar to the FCRR website). There are great center activities, games, sight word activities on the computer, vocabulary resources, and additional organizational student tracking tools for teachers. Although the activities are designed to correlate with the Harcourt Storytown Plan which we do not use, the site has a wealth of **FREE activities and resources** you can begin using with your students right away, both on the computer and for hands-on centers. For 1st and 2nd grade teachers who have students that struggle with remembering sight words, there are computer “flash card” activities that provide students with multiple exposures to the words.

**FUNDATIONS** A little confused on how to navigate the old first edition phonics manual? Here's help!

Need a test to discover where to begin helping older students? Try this word list that coordinates with Fundations, level 2, Scope and Sequence.

**GUIDED READING MATERIALS and LITERACY TRAINING DVDs** Many teachers in the Florida Conference use [|www.readinga-z.com] to create assessment kits, leveled readers, and literacy activities for students. You can get a reduced rate for a one year's subscription by emailing our office, melida.tellez@floridaconference.com You can also call the office to borrow a DVD which will show you how to create an assessment kit to place students in guided reading groups (called "Starting a Reading Program From Scratch.") Other DVDs you can borrow (created right here in the Florida Conference) are: Writer's Workshop, Using Theme Books to Teach Reading Strategies, and Guided Reading and Literacy Circles. Download a helpful tool to use in teaching guided reading to Grades 3 and 4 here:

**INTEGRATED UNITS** Chris Juhl, teacher in the Kentucky-TN Conference, presented an inservice in Feb. 2010, demonstrating how he creates 4matted, integrated units with awesome "CONNECT" activities. He has written a number of units which correspond with quality children's literature for the middle and upper grades. You can order his units for reasonable rates. If you don't want to take the time to hunt up the accompanying materials, he'll even sell you a tub filled with everything you need! The Florida Conference Office of Education has purchased two units with all accompanying materials for our teachers to borrow: //Shepherd Warrior// and //Gifted Hands//. See more at: This is a great website for assessing students in reading and giving them an individualized learning path:[| www.i-ready.com].
 * iReady **

**iTeach** Our kindergarten and first grade teachers use the Kindergarten Early Screening Inventory to test students to make informed decisions about reading instruction. Download the parts here: **KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST-GRADE EARLY SCREENING** Our kindergarten and first grade teachers use the Kindergarten Early Screening Inventory to test students to make informed decisions about reading instruction. Download the parts here:



LEVELED READERS FROM REVIEW & HERALD

**PATHWAYS**
 * Target Skills:** The Southern Union voted to follow the Pathways target skills for curricular planning. Click below to get the most recent version of the target skills.



Follow this link to access a wealth of experience and information put together by our Union Associates on the Pathways balanced literacy program. If you have missed any sessions, you are encouraged to watch the recorded sessions at []
 * Pathways Webinars: **

Pathways units and materials created by teachers around NAD. Great source of very specific activities that are ready to go. Log in with--//User name//: suc. //Password//: teacher. []

Florida Conference has an entire wiki dedicated to Pathways, including Pathways units created by multi-grade teachers: [|www.flconfpathways.pbworks.com] Below are the proposed Pathways Reading Records for grades 1-8:

Teachers in Kalispell, Montana designed Project CRISS (CReating Independence through Student-owned Strategies) to help students learn more effectively throughout the curriculum. The project focuses on teaching students how to learn through reading, writing, talking and listening. In the Florida Conference, teachers are expected to use CRISS strategies in teaching all subjects.
 * PROJECT CRISS**

Find out more about CRISS and order supplemental materials at [|www.projectcriss.com]. Especially recommended is the **Project CRISS Classroom Presentation Materials Package**,which includes a CD-ROM with Blackline Masters and PowerPoint Slides. Another great tool is theProject CRISS Reference Guided for Teachers, a flipchart that provides a quick, shorthand view of the strategies.

**ROY'S WRITING TOOLS.** This is a series of 50 FREE podcasts that are great for junior high, high school, and adult learners who want to become better writers. Set your students up with a set of headphones and watch their writing improve! []

**STATEMENT REGARDING FICTION**

Taken from "Guidelines for Good Reading" (Adventist Network for General Educational Libraries)

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"The fact that a story is fictional does not necessarily preclude its value. Some of Jesus' parables are fictitious. __Pilgrims Progress__ is fictional. __Sabbath Readings__, compiled by Ellen White, contains fictitious stories. Why did E.G. White denounce "fiction" and yet recommend some of it for family reading? Evidently she chose this broad term "fiction" to represent unacceptable literature because the great bulk of fiction did not then and does not now meet the criteria of good reading. Yet she recognized that the extensive use of parables by Jesus demonstrated the value of stories as teaching tools. Apparently fiction as a __form__ or vehicle - is acceptable if its __message__ is not fictitious. Therefore, individual titles should be evaluated with careful regard to the positive principles set forth in Ellen White's writings."======

Students in public schools in Florida are required to take a writing test in grades 4, 8, and 10. Read this article to discover why the bar is being raised.
 * WRITING: EXPECTATIONS BEING RAISED THROUGHOUT FLORIDA **

**WRITING PROCESS PORTFOLIO** All teachers in grades 3-8 use the Writing Process Portfolio to assess students throughout the year. You'll need to complete an online training within the first month of school. Register: []