readwritethink

I found a website that can be a great resource for parents, teachers and students: readwritethink.org From the homepage you can choose activities for teachers to use in the classroom, and for parents and students to use after school. You can choose from some interesting lesson plans for all grade levels. I even found a neat data tool for brainstorming and summarizing called Bio Cube. Students can summarize a story with this interactive tool by filling answers to the questions of characters, setting, conflict and resolution. once the students the information the program genrates a printout for the students to cut out a cube to study from. This will make organizing and summarizing the assigned readings a little more interesting for the students. Here I've included a story cube I created to help with my earlier webquest debate: