Vermont Network Leaders in Literacy

Fall 2009 Planning Wiki

Fall 2009 Literacy Network Meeting Materials -- Please print and bring to the meeting:

• K - 3 Literacy Network Materials -- updated 10-9-09

               "Reading/Writing Connections Across the Day"

• 4 - 6 Literacy Network Materials -- updated 10-9-09

•       "Reading/Writing Connections Across the Day"

• MS-HS Literacy Network Materials:      

               "Reading/WritingConnections: Deep Reading and Elaboration"   

• VT Item Bank Assessments Handout (all grade levels)

Click here for Fall 2009 meeting descriptions and schedule and registration.

Leaders may post materials, readings, etc. that relate to our planning on the Network Leader Planning Page

Interesting Bits We Have Stumbled Across:

1.  There is this announcement of the winner of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (Write the world's worst first sentence to a novel) along with submissions by NPR listeners. When I was teaching Dickens, I used to challenge my students to write a correct 50-word sentence descriibing one of the characters...

2.  When watching the Grammar Girl Blog, we noticed the episode on "Neologisms." Click here and see some new words that were added to the lexicon yesterday, July 9. --JiG

3. From Sue Brennan- this is the link to the elaboration powerpoint.  This link contains a more concise list of elaboration (and other) strategies.

4. Grappling's Technology and Learning Spectrum : What type of technology user are you? -- JiG

5. Shirley Jackson Covers -- Glog  -- JiG

6. Which do you use? Why choose, when you can have it all? Bing vs Google -- JiG

7. Elaboration Graphic Organizer -- JiG

8. "Yo Comments R Wack!" -- JiG

9. Talk about organization Lost Generation. --JiG

10. "Lottery" googledoc -- J. Ibson