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It is always worth looking at rubrics for other standards, it helps me to reassess what I am asking students to be able to demonstrate. Delete the scoop?
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Celebrity titles help sales of physical books break through £75m mark, the strongest weekly performance since Christmas 2009
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The return of the p-book. Delete the scoop?
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Christmas wouldn’t be the same without another showing for the heart-melting fantasy about a boy whose snowman creation magically comes to life.
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Sometimes there is a collective collusion against the author. Delete the scoop?
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Some food for thought going in to the new year. How should we use libraries in schools? Delete the scoop?
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Charlotte Higgins: Reading Susan Cooper's gloriously Manichaean exploration of the dark through the life of 11-year-old Will Stanton is a Christmas ritual for me
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Part of the reason why I love the Guardian book reviews is here. Beautiful writing that opens up new reading experiences for me. Delete the scoop?
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Stephen's Web, the home page of Stephen Downes, with news and information on e-learning, new media, instructional technology, educational design, and related subjects
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Research about the nature of the contested term 'digital native'. Delete the scoop?
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Actor Simon Russell Beale talks to theatre editor Andrew Dickson about a life in acting, failed auditions – and unfulfilled dreams Delete the scoop?
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Digital Storyteller is a Web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Zakariyya Spain, Jim Lerman
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A site for young people about the books they like to read. Discover the latest youth literature news, find YA books for teenagers (reviewed by teens), join a book club and discuss your favourite reads, and enter our monthly competitions.
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5 reasons to buy Grimm's Tales as reimagined by Phillip Pullman. I don't need 5! Delete the scoop?
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The Inside-Out School: A 21st Century Learning Model: wendell berry, digital literacy, citizenship, transfer
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9 essential ideas as framework for learning. Delete the scoop?
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Reading is foundational to learning and the information acquisition upon which people make decisions. For centuries, the capacity to read has been a benchmark of literacy and involvement in community life. In the 21st Century, across all types of U.S. communities, reading is a common activity that is pursued in myriad ways.
As technology and the digital world expand and offer new types of reading opportunities, residents of urban, suburban, and rural communities at times experience reading and e-reading differently. In the most meaningful ways, these differences are associated with the demographic composition of different kinds of communities — the age of the population, their overall level of educational attainment, and the general level of household income.1
Several surveys by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project reveal interesting variations among communities in the way their residents read and use reading-related technology and institutions:
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Folger Digital Texts - your source for reliable, expertly edited and encoded Shakespeare texts
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You can download the plays and the source code if you are tech savvy enough as well as literary. Delete the scoop?
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See what your friends are reading. Create virtual bookshelves for your books to keep track of what you've read. Discuss your favorite books in a book club. Share quotes and book summaries with your friends.
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This site is gold Fforde English teachers. You can write and read reviews of books. Good to see what others are reading. Delete the scoop?
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Franz Kafka's story of a man who starves himself for entertainment, The Hunger Artist, is 'absurb, moving and timely', says Hanif Kureishi
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A timeless fable read by the wonderful voice of Haneif Kureishi. Delete the scoop?
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Quentin Blake, the illustrator whose wiry, sprightly figures have brought to life the prose of writers from Roald Dahl to Michael Rosen, leads an eclectic roll call of figures from the arts in the New Year Honours.
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Well deserved. He brought amusement to millions and helped many thousands. Delete the scoop?
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Bestselling author Jonathan Franzen decided to take a stand this week, declaring: "I am out of the blurb business."
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The backslapping feat that begets the blurb is outlined here. It is still a useful tool in marketing books. Delete the scoop?
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Welcome to the OxfordWords blog! Here you’ll find articles about words, language, and dictionaries, plus English grammar and usage tips, interactive features, games, competitions, and more
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A fantastic resource for English classes. Great for lesson starters or endings as well as fitting in with the new language strand of AC English. Delete the scoop?
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The Book Depository live site shows live updates of what people all around the world are buying at their site. This would be great for marketing or English classes. Delete the scoop?
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Boy vs Beast will hook reluctant readers and build their reading skills – and their enjoyment of books. Via Alison Hewett Doak, Heather Stapleton
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Boys do read differently; that does not mean that they can't love reading. It just means that we have to select more careully. Delete the scoop?
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Maya Zuckerman: "So how do we make an immersive Transmedia Project out of The Fifth Sacred Thing?" Via The Digital Rocking Chair, Heiko Idensen Delete the scoop?
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Are you a fan of stories that begin after the end of the world?
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One of my favourite genres for some reason. It's all about what we do in extremis. Delete the scoop?
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We may as well learn from the best. Here the young Winston Churchill teaches us about rhetoric and structure. Delete the scoop?
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What the Australian Curriculum means for English and how to implement i
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A comprehensive, but straightforward overview f AusVELs and what it means for English teachers. Delete the scoop?
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The Folger library is offering free access to Shakespeare's plays in full. A great classroom resource. Delete the scoop?
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Rubrics help us understand the vocabulary and the expectations of both writing and common core standards.