-Reading+6th+grade

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= 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 lexile. You need to register to use the site:===
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=Inferencing resources: =
 * ===Online mysteries and/or with phone app is free & can print out as well:[]===

= Folktales, Legends & Mythology: =
 * ===List of websites on Discovery Education for introducing the genres and various stories :[[file:Folktales, myths, etc. on Discovery Education.doc]]===

2. Various interesting resources for the legend of 'John Henry' -pics, monuments, songs, interviews, & much more : [|NPR]
=Around the World: =

2. Compare different versions of Cinderella from around the word: [|Rochester.edu]
=Literature Resources: =
 * ===[[image:valems/Googlelittrips.JPG width="270" height="119" 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===

= = =Drama: =


 * ===[[image:valems/worldbook drama.JPG]]Our very own World Book Database has a ** Dramatic Learning ** section with great resource with: plays, lesson plans, various teaching tools, rubrics, play starters, posters for plays, monologues, & more (once logged in ** go to World Book Classroom **)===

=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.
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 * === 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===