Read, write, think has become one of my favorite websites to visit. I have used the website to find writing activities for students. But it has so much more to offer. The website has reading activities for students, professional development & tutorials for teachers and a resource depository. This site has information and resources for students grades K-12. The site has pages for lessons, standards, web resources and student material. The website has a quick link drop down menu to help navigate through the site easily. It also has a calendar that links activities to events in literacy and literature.This resource depository has a numerous amount of English Language Arts resources that are available on the Internet. These resources have been divided into 4 categories, which are clearly defined on the website. This site also has an entire page dedicated to the criteria they use selecting resources. Each resource is also annotated and some annotations include ways to incorporate in the classroom. The website has a panel that is dedicated solely to investigating and choosing resources to add to the ever growing list. The annotations can be helpful due to the wide array of websites and resources available. Based on the provided information, teachers can choose or eliminate choices right away. Some of the resources included are: websites for kids, professional development, history, news, museums, and booklists (just to name a few). Teachers at every school can use this website effectively. The resources can be searched by grade band and or category. This is also a helpful tool for teachers when trying to pilfer through resources.
The website is sponsored by NCTE and IRA which explains why the resources are language based. This site is well organized and easy to use. Visiting this site will open up a plethora of ideas & resources for both students and other teachers. Take a look and share with others http://www.readwritethink.org/resources/index.asp. Have a great time!!!!
I am adding readwritethink.org to my web "hotlist" and all my other resource lists. As you wrote, it has so much to offer. I am interested gaining more experience with literacy instruction and resources and this site will be very helpful to me. I read the IRA/NCTE standards and visited the link on 100 Best Books under the Web Resources tab. Also under that tab I found the site that I reviewed for my post this week : 4teachers.org. The student materials index is a spot that I will spend a lot of time exploring. Thanks for the heads up on an awesome resource! I'll give you the cred when I share it with others.
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Read-Write-Think is indeed an outstanding resource for educators. Their lessons are rigorous and written with a great amount of detail, not only providing step by step instructions for implementation, but also containing links for graphic organizers and other needed materials. I like how the calendar contains quick ideas for lessons, making a connection to current events, so to speak, since the date provides a connection to introduce students to topics that might not necessarily come up otherwise. Personally I have used many of their lessons when I taught 4th grade, but haven't really explored their web resources. That in itself looks like an excellent depository! The student materials tab is also a newer addition from when I used the site as a classroom teacher. I look forward to exploring this resource again, and sharing it with my colleagues.
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