Reading

• QEP key features
• Reading Workshop
• Shared Reading
• Guided Reading :
  • Reading Strategies
  • Cross Levelling Chart
• Fluency
  • http://www.auburn.edu/~murraba/fluency.html
• Reading comprehension
• Reciprocal Teaching
• Connections
• Inference:
  • Inferring through poetry
  • Inferring themes
• Synthesis
• overview of strategies
• http://k6educators.about.com/cs/languagearts/a/teachreading.htm

Resources

• Thematic Content
  • Discovery Channel Videos
  • Kids Who Make a Difference
  • Children's Rights
  • Canadian Government
• Elementary Booklists
  • Author Study List I Elementary
  • Books - general titles/authors used to teach specific reading and writing strategies [Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet format]
  • Books - In your school -for the purpose of read aloud/think aloud/6traits
  • Books - for Essential Questions
  • Wordless picture books
• Booklists
  • Collections Canada: Read up on it!
  • Collections Canada: Aboriginal Stories
  • Reading.org

Links

• Ottawa Public Library  for free access to Tumblebooks audio/visual books for elementary students. A library card enables users to download audio books.
  The OPL sells quality second hand books every Saturday, in the basement. Books are 50-75 cents. Tell them you’re a teacher for a further 20% discount. Free underground parking beside the main branch on Saturdays.
1. Reading.org
2. Reading Rockets
3. Me Read? No Way!  A practical guide to improving boys' literacy skills
4. Literacy and Science
5. Association of Teachers of English in Quebec. Follow this link for resources, information, book grants and travelling trunks of books
6. Early Literacy Resources for Teachers and Parents
7. The Centre for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education
8. Robert Munsch
9. Early Literacy