Helpful+Sites

Below you will find website that may assist you in finding relevant articles to incorporate into your literacy activities.


 * Sweetsearch2day- a daily curated assortment of the best content on the Web for history, language arts, science, news, culture and other topics.
 * CNN Student News
 * National Public Radio
 * PBS Student Newshour
 * Twurdy.com- Literacy AND Differentiation!!
 * According to their page, **The philosophy** Everyone has different reading abilities. Some people searching the web are university professors and others are 5 year old children. Twurdy has been created to provide people with access to search results that suit their own readability level. **What does it do?** Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level. Twurdy then shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand.
 * Literacy and Infographics - Information is Beautiful-
 * Information is Beautiful is a website that creates/compiles infographics (not your run of the mill graphs and charts). Students may apply reading strategies to "read" the data presented in these charts. Great in the MATH and SCIENCE classrooms!
 * Try this document (and revise it to fit your needs!) with infographics -- [[file:Reading Strategies and Infographics LMS Faculty Meeting.docx]]


 * How To Read a Textbook: - http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/lamont_handouts/interrogatingtexts.html "Interrogating Texts: 6 Reading Habits to Develop in Your First Year at Harvard"
 * [[file:miles-o-resources/LiteracyTextbookScavengerHunt[1].doc|LiteracyTextbookScavengerHunt[1].doc]] - Created by K. Moore (LMS)
 * Interactive Timelines-- Reasoning and Critical Thinking
 * Create an interactive timeline, complete with explanations and media