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"While Twitter is beginning to catch on with many educators, schools are lagging in their adoption of the platform. But let's think about it. Twitter is a quick and easy tool to let the entire school community know whats going on with you and your students. Updates can come from anywhere and users don't have to have a Twitter account to follow along. But where do you start? What are some things to consider? Here is my primer and some advice for schools (and districts) that want to start using Twitter." Via anna smith 
The Children's Poetry Archive is an ever expanding archive of poets for children reading their own work...Read and listen Via BookChook, Alison Kay 
The Canberra TimesPicture book art a major drawThe Canberra TimesWhen Look! The art of Australian picture books debuted at the State Library of Victoria, almost 100000 people went to see the exhibition. Via shm 
If you’re a student, teacher, or administrator at a middle school looking into adopting iPads for educational purposes, it’s important to know that the iPad is more than just an easy way to browse the web or visit the app store. There are actually thousands of educational apps hiding in the bowels of the app store. Via David Miller This is a wonderful site with links to so many things "Literacy" and "ICT" some things would be most useful for early childhood teachers. The site is endless and has links to the Australian Curriculum as well as other curriculum resources. 
"Hello and welcome to Comics in Education! I'm Gene Yang, high school teacher and cartoonist. This site is the online version of the final project proposal for my Masters of Education degree at California State University..." Via dilaycock 
This is my website with links to some of my research and articles. You'll also find other pdf resources. I now use this scoop.it to curate web-based resources. Via dilaycock This is a spelling Game called Roll a Word. Looks like it could be fun to practise spelling. 
How and why to use paper scrolls and colored markers to teach reading comprehension skills and classroom content. Improve the clarity and effectiveness of reading comprehension skills instruction. "This is the National Strategies area of the Standards site. The National Strategies are professional development programmes for Early Years, primary and secondary school teachers, practitioners and managers."
Links to all the Resources developed in the UK which cover all the early years literacy development needs. Scoop them up before they disappear.
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Teaching That Makes Sense offers tools, training, and technology support for K-12 schools in reading, writing, math, test preparation, and assessment. 
At Digital-Storytime.com, we are celebrating our first birthday! We’d like to pay tribute to last year’s very best picture book apps for the iPad and the developers who made these reading experiences possible.
For the final post in our blog, I want to highlight the 31 books to receive a perfect 5-Star review on our site. With over 400 reviews, that means these apps are the cream of the crop, representing fewer than 10% of all the titles we’ve seen. We have awarded all of these developers our “Digital Storytime Star” for overall merit.
Since there are 31 days in January, we will be celebrating these wonderful books, one each day during the next month. Join us on our Facebook page for all the festivities to honor the 27 developers who’ve produced these fine apps for children.
This list is in order from oldest review to newest. The first few were reviewed in the very last days of 2010 but all were hits in 2011. And who knows what 2012 will bring? Via Carisa Kluver, Alison Kay 
Three teachers share Great Lesson Ideas to boost pupils' writing skills - and all the resources you need to use these ideas.
The Super Sentence Idea is a great one. 
Via David Miller 
Great practical site for teachers using graphic novels . Targets middle school. Site put together by Sam Gooding and Deborah Marshall of Ballarat High School (Vic, AUS). Via dilaycock 
Hunt through the videos to find ones relevant to your context. Some are very funny others serious all wonderful and insightful.
Michael Rosen also has a great Website http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/news.html
And a great Blog http://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com.au/
"Strategies for teaching reading to children in the middle years"
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