[Oz-teachers] Remedial reading question

[Helen at eTeachers]

Kate
 
Make sure that you investigate the online resources available that will
encourage students to write and read others' contributions including:
*         interactive quizzes (already prepared, created by you and by
the students) eg use Hot Potatoes http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/
which is free to educators and which has six quiz formats that can be
delivered from a single PC without internet access.
*         email groups, epals, bookwraps set up by you for your students
 ( http://www.eteachers.com.au/Indigenous/PromotingL
<http://www.eteachers.com.au/Indigenous/PromotingL&N/The%20Book%20Rap%20
Project.htm> &N/The%20Book%20Rap%20Project.htm )
*         Discussion Forums (free facility available at Tapped In
(http://ti2.sri.com/tappedin/do/WelcomeAction?state=displayChatRoomFrame
) 
*         Contextual learning eg online teen magazine sites - suitably
sourced as appropriate for the classroom, of course.
 
Check out the resource page on my website that I used during a PD
session on using ICTs to promote Literacy and Numeracy for Indigenous
students.  Many (if not all) of the ideas would most likely be able to
be used.  http://www.eteachers.com.au/Indigenous/samples.htm 
 
One of the key factors for success will be using resources that do not
match the reading age/literacy level but rather those which are in
keeping with the chronological age - a piece of advice I picked up while
working with teachers in a Special Education School earlier this year.
 
Regards
 
 
Helen Hall (Mrs)
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-----Original Message-----
From: oz-teachers-bounces at rite.ed.qut.edu.au
[mailto:oz-teachers-bounces at rite.ed.qut.edu.au] On Behalf Of Kate Smith
Sent: Tuesday, 18 November 2003 9:29 AM
To: oz
Subject: [Oz-teachers] Remedial reading question
 
Hi folks,
 
I am in a new role for 2004, working with teenagers having difficulty
with learning, particularly in Literacy skills. Instead of owning my own
lovely bunch, I will be working with kids across 3 or 4 Yr 7 classes.
 
Would anyone like to share any strategies, tips, hints clues, advice!!!
so I can really connect with these kids and do the best possible for
them?
 
Cheers,
Kate Smith
Gold Creek Senior School
Nicholls, ACT
 
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