Source: TeachingBooks | Author & Book Resources to Support Reading Education Via: How In The World Am I Just Learning About “Teaching Books”?! The site has an impressive collection of resources! After sign up you get 2 weeks of full access to everything, to continue after that there are various licensing tiers available. Resources are…
One of the best aspects of being a teacher is watching students go from saying, “I hate writing,” to being so passionate about writing that they refuse to stop when the bell rings. In these moments, it can feel like magic. While there are many ways to spark the love of writing, one of…
An illustrated, interactive guide to Dante’s Inferno Source: Infernal topography This is for all the students and teachers studying Dante’s Inferno. Each level is represented with graphics and information, and you can zoom in and around each level. There is a full list of characters and linkage to the actual poem on Wikipedia.
Lately I’ve been noticing that more and more authors seem to be adapting their adult nonfiction books for younger readers (typically for the middle grade set, ages 8-12). The young readers editions are shorter and often contain more illustrations, photos, graphs, and charts than their adult counterparts, distilling the story and information down into what…
Subscribe to literary classics with DailyLit. Source: Welcome to DailyLit Last week I mentioned Serial Reader, and iOS app that drip feeds you a public domain classic every day. DailyLit brings you the same, but through your email. This may work better for your students, especially if they do not have iOS devices. One big difference between DailyLit and…
Matt Bucy on Vimeo has put together a cut of The Wizard of Oz where he has rearranged every instance of every word in alphabetical order. It’s quite fascinating to watch, and some of the scenes with the same word are quite humorous when put together in this order.