In what ways can you supplement a textbook with reading materials at a variety of levels? Provide two examples or websites that could be used in a general education classroom. Try one examples proposed by another blogmate and share your findings/thoughts.
Due January 4th
I like to use Bookrags.com as a website for struggling readers. Short synopsis of book chapters of acts from plays are provided. Pre-reading these helps students look for the important events when reading/listening to the entire chapter/act. I also like to use CDs. I put the book CDs into iTunes, sync it to the iPod, then have students listen. No one knows they're listening to something other than music while they read.
ReplyDeleteJerrie, I have never heard of Bookrags.com. Thanks, I will check it out. We have used Bookshare to help students with their textbooks. They have been downloaded on small notebooks (Acer). Sparknotes is another option to getting summaries for books. Several teachers in our school use Wiki a lot to give some background to the students about some authors and the stories they write.
ReplyDeleteShmoop.com, sparknotes.com,and enotes.com are good sights for having book summaries, practice tests, vocabulry words, themes and more over novels and such. I also like the ability to down load books onto mp3 players and ipods so the kids look like every other student.
ReplyDeleteWhen I made my own web quests, I was fond of the Ellis Island and holocaust museum sites. Since that has been some time back, another site I like is 42explore because it is linked to think quest where there are several web quest design by students. 42 explore also has different reading levels for the same topic. Thinkfinity has a LOT on the site and if you were looking to provide some supplemental content, it's a great place to start.
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