-Reading+8th+grade

= = Table of Contents | Projects |Vale = = = Lexile Tools: =
 * === Lexile level to grade chart: [|lexile.com] ===
 * === Level finder : For a grade/student or find a book: []===
 * ===Find a book's lexile or age range: same site as above just use 'Quick Search' in upper left corner.===
 * ===Lexile Analyzer: Type in the text from a book and find its lexileYou need to register to use the site:===
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=Literature Resources: =
 * ===[[image:valems/Googlelittrips.JPG width="202" height="89" link="@http://www.googlelittrips.org/"]]- Googlelittrips - events in a novel are mapped out on Google Earth trips===
 * === Create your own lit. trips - " allows teachers and students to synthesize information in one easy-to-use map that places text, pictures, audio files, video files, and much more in one central location. " : []===
 * === Great Resource - Encouraging active reading by technology connections to lit. : Literature Learning Ladders===

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=Poetry: = = =
 * ===[[image:valems/poetry stations logo.JPG]]Eight stations created by several NISD librarian to engage students & review poetry devices & TEKS. -See Mr. T. for details.===
 * === Learning Lab - with questions and activities for specific poems and a various audiovisual poems : thePoetryFoundation===
 * ===View poems as they roll across screen of large smartphone (1,000s of poems to choose from) : poetryflow===

=Anne Frank & the Holocaust: =

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 * ===[[image:valems/holocaust by CAHairyBear.jpg width="410" height="315"]] 2-Day & 5 Stations in the Librar y -designed by librarian specialists - reviewing background history; following the lives of children in the Holocaust, & much more! -See Mr.T. for details.===
 * ===Stories & documents: []===
 * === Researching -Tons of resources: []===
 * ===Great site of Anne's story w/audio and walk around in the 3-D interactive of the Secret Annex: ICTmagic===
 * ===[[image:valems/Googlelittrips.JPG link="@http://www.googlelittrips.org/"]]- Googlelittrips - events in a novel about Anne Frank mapped out on Google Earth trips===

=Drama: =
 * ===[[image:valems/dramatic learning.jpg link="@http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/products?ed=all&gr=Welcome+Northside+Ind+School+District"]] Our very own World Book Database has a ** Dramatic Learning ** section with over 47 complete plays, with accompanied lesson plans, various teaching tools, rubrics, play starters, posters for plays, monologues, & more (once logged in ** go to World Book Classroom **)===