Website resources for AzTEA Professional Development Workshop on February 23, 2005, 4:00-5:30pm

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General Test Preparation Websites and tips (include links to many other categories including effective strategies for teachers to use with students) (tools and information for teachers)

TEAMS Teaching Circles offers resources to help you and your students prepare for Standardized Testing. (registration required through ASSET--free to ASSET members)

Log-in at

http://teachingcircles.lacoe.edu and select either preK-3 or 4-8

Go to the eWorkshop: Engaging, Supporting and Assessing Student

Learning. Scroll down to (5) "Preparing for Standardized Testing".

Resources include: video clips for testing strategies, web resources, student practice sites and professional articles including blueprints, student guides and sample tests for AIMS.

Creating Test Success

Based upon the following Scholastic website:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/testyourattitude.htm

How do you score on the "Twitch Test"?

1. When you think about your own test-taking experiences as you were going through school, do you twitch?

2. When you think about taking class time to prepare kids for standardized tests, do you twitch?

3. When you think about talking with parents about their children's test scores, do you twitch?

4. When you think about reading your school's test scores in the local newspaper, do you twitch?

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Where's the Curriculum?

Arizona State Academic Standards

http://www.ade.state.az.us/standards/contentstandards.asp

The Staff Room for Ontario's Teachers

http://www.quadro.net/~ecoxon/

Online help in preparing long range, unit and daily plans. Using the Internet, Software Tutorials and lesson ideas for OESS programs and Subjects. Assessment & Evaluation, Rubrics, Reporting Software, Report Card Comments, Exemplars, EQAO.

Project Based Learning: HPR*TEC

http://www.4teachers.org/projectbased/

This site offers a network of solution links to assist classroom

teachers with assessment.

Performance Assessment Tasks: Search

Educational Services

http://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/cia/framework/tasks/PAT/search.lasso

Hotlists

http://www.iwebquest.com/hotlists2.htm

iwebquest.com's teaching staff has scoured the World Wide Web to pull together the greatest Webquests, Treasure Hunts, and web pages. These resources give you (students, teachers, and parents):

*A Way to Use You Time Wisely- Quality resources are provided for you.

*Current Information- Our online resources provide you with up-to-date information.

*Stimulating Graphics- The colorful, sometimes animated, graphics found on the web can create excitement.

*Interactive Sites- You can use our web pages to actively manipulate

information.

*Various Reading Levels- You can find information at your reading level.

*Multiple Intelligence's- Find a medium to reach your learning style.

*Safety Issues- You can surf safely knowing that all our sites are

teacher previewed.

We have worked hard to organize these resources so that they are easy for you to find and use. If you are a student, teacher, or parent searching for great information, check out our teacher-previewed and teacher-used sites compiled in our Hotlists.

Math Hotlists

Math Lesson Plans

Math Problem-Solving Questions

Math Problem-Solving Strategies

Math Webquests

Math Rubrics

ERIC Digest: Preparing Students to Take Standardized Achievement Tests

http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9213/take.htm

Help Your Child Improve in Test-Taking (advice for parents)

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/TestTaking/index.html

Study Guides and Strategies (includes preparing for tests and taking tests as well as other great resources such as writing an essay, reading difficult material, math exam tips, etc.)

http://www.studygs.net/

Ten Tips for Test Taking

http://www.studygs.net/tsttak1.htm

Helping Children Master the Tricks and Avoid the Traps of Standardized

Tests. ERIC Digest.

http://www.ericdigests.org/1999-4/tests.htm

Weekly Test Tips -Test-Taking Strategies that Work

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/weeklytips.phtml/78

Making the A: How To Study for Tests.

http://www.ericdigests.org/1996-1/study.htm

Survival Strategies for Taking Tests

http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/teststrat.html

Test Taking Strategies

http://www.public.asu.edu/~ickpl/test-taking.htm

Study Tips and Test Taking Strategies

http://www.eop.mu.edu/study/

Testing Modification Chart Generator (can individualize lists for each student which are useful in any classroom testing situation and may be useful in planning for IMS as long as they meet the test administration requirements)

http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/test_mod/

Enter the information and print the form :-)

Student's Name:

Length Of Extended Time: (%)

Does the student need:

1. The directions read? Yes No

2. Simplified language of the directions? Yes No

3. Minimal distractions? Yes No

4. The questions read? Yes No

5. To use a calculator? Yes No

6. Spelling waived? Yes No

Are there any other accommodations this student needs? (Explain)

Spelling Test SpreadSheet (a template is provided for download

with instructions for creating a spelling spreadsheet)

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110054/spelling.html

Testing and Evaluation tips for various kinds of tests for LD students.

Includes teaching tips for test taking to students.

http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techniques/testing_tips.html

Learning Skills Center: Study Skills Helpline-Test Anxiety

http://www.kishwaukeecollege.edu/lsc/ssh/test-anxiety.shtml

Specific subject area practice materials for reading, math and writing (for teacher use with students)

AIMS (from ASSET)

1. AIMS: Practice Questions

http://asu.edu/provost/oyp/aims/index.html

The AIMS Practice Questions are a product of the Arizona Board of Regents for Arizona State University and its Office of Youth Preparation. These practice questions are provided to your school district compliments of the Office of Youth Preparation/Project PRIME (OYP).

OYP created this bank of language arts and mathematics questions in ten-question drills addressing each of the standards assessed in the Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards for grades 3, 5, and 8. The content of these practice questions is based on a comprehensive coverage of the standards at the performance bjective level. In addition to distributing printed manuals and CDs to school districts and schools across the state of Arizona, the Office of Youth Preparation has made these practice questions available on the Web.

AIMS 2004-2005 Sample Tests

http://www.ade.az.gov/standards/aims/sampletests/

The Arizona Department of Education grants permission to Arizona schools to copy this publication as necessary for educational purposes.

Superintendent Tom Horne Releases Sample High School AIMS Test to Assist Students in Preparing for Spring 2005 (tests and answer keys)

*High School Sample AIMS Test

*2004-2005 Third Grade AIMS Sample Test

*2004-2005 Fourth Grade AIMS Sample Test

*2004-2005 Fifth Grade AIMS Sample Test

*2004-2005 Sixth Grade AIMS Sample Test

*2004-2005 Seventh Grade AIMS Sample Test

*2004-2005 Eighth Grade AIMS Sample Test

Sample Tests: Oregon Department of Education

http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/results/?id=226

Sample tests for gr. 3-8: math, reading, science, social science

Test Prep

http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/Preparation/Elementary_Test_Preparation/elementary_test_preparation.html

Terra Nova Practice Test

http://www.rcs.k12.tn.us/terranova_strategies_3-5.htm

North Carolina onlineÉour previous End-Of-Grade Math tests!!

http://www.learnnc.org/dpi/instserv.nsf/6703f630096b753e052564e500571b7c/6363f6aecc847c668525682b005502f7?OpenDocument

New Zealand Math-Problem Solving

http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/PS/

An excellent website from New Zealand on math problem solving that closely aligns with TERC math. It provides great teacher information including lesson plans and copy master handouts, and lots of problem solving examples for many grades organized by standards. Check the different levels to find the appropriate levels for your students since they don't correspond to our "grade levels" in the US, but they are sequential.

Balanced Assessment in Mathematics

http://balancedassessment.gse.harvard.edu/

On this website for mathematics educators, you can view a library of

over 300 assessment tasks for grades K to 12, which you may use in your own classroom for free.

Maryland assessments for Reading/Language Arts

Public Release Items: 3 4 5 6 7 8 10

Sample Items: 3 4 5 6 7 8

http://www.mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/reading/assessments.html

Elementary Test Prep Center (language arts, math and social studies

practice tests and tutorials-Gr. K-4)

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/

Index of Standardized Tests (practice tests for math/reading gr. 3-8

from many sources including SAT9, TAAS, CTBS among others--some tests are available in Spanish--no answer keys)

http://www.kz.com/standardTest/

Accelerated Reader Tests created and shared by teachers (provide

opportunities to answer questions about specific books-10 questions per book--correct answer is marked so students couldn't take these online)

http://www.schoolweb.missouri.edu/arcadia.k12.mo.us/petsel/artests/artests2/index.html

TAKS Practice Math Tests-Gr. 6-12 (Texas test but could even be helpful review for the Arizona Teacher Exam-AEPA--no answer key provided)

http://mcdougallittell.com/state/tx/tm_tests.cfm

NAEP Questions-Gr. 4, 8 and 12 in many subject areas

http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/itmrls/pickone.asp

Just an FYI. If you want to design reviews, 10 min. math, etc. that are standardized test oriented and keep with the AIMS pedagogy, this is a great site. Although the questions are only available at the 4th and 8th grade level many of the questions are appropriate for other grade levels and are all content areas. This site will generate past NAEP - open release questions. That prevents you from having to design problems you can cut and paste from their web site with specific

standards in mind. It provides print ready format, answer key, normed responses which allow you to gage your students' performance. You can also view student writing samples and the scoring of these samples. If you open your window all the way you will have a better idea of options available to you. And best of all it's free! :-)

WEB SITES for Test Preparation found on:

http://www.mayer.cps.k12.il.us/Mayer_Resources/testing.htm

http://tp1.clearlearning.com/ISBE/

The Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) and the Prairie State Achievement Examination (PSAE) measure individual student achievement and show how well students and schools are performing relative to the Illinois Learning Standards. The tests measure student progress in meeting the Illinois Learning Standards. The tests are given at specific times in a student's educational career, however they are not grade specific. The test results identify areas of strength and weakness for students and schools. The information helps educators and parents assist students to meet the Standards.

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/assessment/isat.htm

The Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) measures individual student achievement relative to the Illinois Learning Standards. The results give parents, teachers, and schools one measure of student learning and school performance. Students in grades 3, 5, and 8 take the ISAT in reading, writing and mathematics. Students in grades 4 and 7 take the ISAT in science and social science. Schools may voluntarily administer tests in physical development and health and fine arts to students in grades 9 and/or 10. (on this site there is a link to download and install math, reading, science and social studies test item pools to your desktop--may want to burn on a CD since the files are large--16mb for math)

Test Pool Items for creating your own practice tests

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/assessment/CDPool.htm

These item pools contain valid and reliable items from previous ISAT and IMAGE test administrations and the ISBE-developed portions of the PSAE. Teachers can select items from these pools to help construct formative, on-going assessments to check for student understanding using the same types of items that are administered on the state assessments.

Interactive websites for students in reading, math, writing

Test Prep Resources

Quiz-Practice with Test Taking strategies

http://www.quia.com/servlets/quia.activities.common.ActivityPlayer?AP_rand=1328045257&AP_activityType=3&AP_urlId=238456&AP_continuePlay=true&id=238456

Questions were written by students to help you practice for the test. For the True false questions practice rewriting or changing any false state to make it true.

Reading Test Tutor (Gr. 4 interactive tutorial for many reading comprehension skills) Students can check their understanding of reading skills through online quizzes with built-in lesson reminders and feedback. The multiple-choice format helps students prepare for standardized tests.

http://www2.asd.wednet.edu/Pioneer/barnard/reading/harcourt4.htm

To view all of the reading tutorials for 4th grade, go to the home page, click on Internet Resources in the menu bar on the left side of the page and then select Harcourt Reading-4th grade Test Tutors

http://www2.asd.wednet.edu/Pioneer/barnard/index.htm

Top 20 Activities in English (great interactive sites for practice with grammar/parts of speech, spelling and punctuation).

http://www.quia.com/shared/eng/

Power Proofreading

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/

This is a great site for your students to use for independent proofreading practice as they hone their writing skills . It has passages for all grade levels and each passage focuses on different skills such as plural nouns. It can be quite challenging and very engaging.

---Brainchild - Select free online assessments for grades 3-8, based on Arizona State Standards.

http://www.brainchild.com/gen/usmap.asp

Study Island

http://studyisland.com/

Online Study Tools for Teachers and Students. Use the practice tests and games to study material in Study Island's huge academic library. Adding your own material to the library is quick and easy, and will allow you and your classmates to study exactly what you need to learn for your next test. The real-time report card keeps track of every study session so you can measure your progress. Classes frequently use Study Island as a supplement to classroom teaching. Teachers or students enter in weekly vocabulary, chapter reviews, and/or study guides for upcoming exams. Once entered, the content is available to anyone online and will remain in Study Island's database for future use.

NOTE: This site requires purchase of either a site license or an individual student license. Very limited sample questions are available for viewing without subscribing for the service. An individual student must pay $49 per grade level (gr. 3-8). The single class fee is $161 per subject area.

Writing prompts for student practice

Basic Guide to Essay Writing (includes a sample essay with instructions for each step)

http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/

Writer's Web (lots of great information about writing essays with downloadable writing prompts for writing narrative, persuasive and expository essays--includes links to many other sites for students and teachers on writing essays)

http://web.archive.org/web/20040209112928/http://www.asd.wednet.edu/pioneer/index.htm

Writing Resources (tons of links for teaching writing including 6 traits, graphic organizers, student interactive sites, paragraph a week program, 5-paragraph essay sites, lesson plans and much more!)

http://www2.asd.wednet.edu/Pioneer/barnard/sites/Language/Writing.htm

Writing Prompts and Journal Topics

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html

Journal Writing Every Day-tips for teachers and many writing prompts

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr144.shtml

Journal Writing Topics and Story Starters and Endings for primary students

http://www.berkeleyprep.org/lower/fourth/writing/journal_writing.htm

180 Journal Topics

http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts//1860.html

Mathematics Journals

Implementing a journal writing program in mathematics class.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020606125101/http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~mathed/t/rc/jour/JOURNAL.HTM

Math Journal Ideas for primary students

http://www.calicocookie.com/mathjournal.html

Writing a Three Paragraph Essay (lesson plan with detailed instructions for each paragraph-gr. 3-5-worksheet provided for download)

http://www.teachercreated.com/lessons/021220il.shtml

Fretful Over Fast Foods (lesson plan for 4th gr. using a 3-paragraph essay format)

http://www.richlandclicks.org/Teacher/connections/grade4/fretful_fastfood.htm

Basic Essay Model

http://www.cwoc.ufl.edu/owl/essay_models/basic.html

This site has some great writing prompts as well as some good rationale for using them and guides for coming up with your own.

http://web.archive.org/web/20031104054241/http://www.pasd.com/PSSA/writing/wri20.htm

Writing samples and scoring rubrics

Writing Performance Assessment Tasks:

An Online Guide

http://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/cia/framework/tasks/writing/index.html

CIM Net-Student Work

http://www.openc.k12.or.us/

This is the URL for the OPEN Clearinghouse home page. It will take you to a page with writing assessment anchor papers. It provides you opportunities to practice scoring various student writing samples for gr.3,5,8 and 10.

http://www.openc.k12.or.us/scoring/getstart.php#writing

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Official 6 Traits Writing Scoring Practice Site

http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/scoringpractice.php?odelay=3&d=1

The student writing sample papers are organized by trait, score, and grade level. The student sample papers are scored on all traits except presentation. Try scoring some on your own, and then view the scores of an expert J

Emergent Papers for Scoring 6 Traits-samples for gr. K, 1 and 2

http://www.cyberspaces.net/6traits/anchor.html

BONUS PAGES: RESOURCES FOR 6 TRAITS WRITING

A Compilation of Web sites and Teacher Sharing

about 6 Traits

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TIP: IF YOU COME ACROSS ANY LINKS THAT SAY "PAGE NOT FOUND" TRY SEARCHING FOR THE PAGE IN THE INTERNET ARCHIVES. IT'S A GREAT PLACE TO FIND "LOST" TREASURES THAT YOU HAVE BOOKMARKED. JUST TYPE OR COPY/PASTE YOUR URL IN THE SEARCH BOX AND IT WILL TAKE YOU TO THE SITE IF IT IS STILL AVAILABLE IN THE ARCHIVES.

http://www.archive.org/

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This site has an incredible bibliography of tons of literature selections that are matched with the 6 Traits.

Using Picture Books with 6 Traits http://geocities.com/oberry1790/narrativebibliography.htm I just came across another great writing resource for you to check out. It came out in the Blue Webn' newsletter which always has good information and links. Enjoy!

The Five Paragraph Essay http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/index.html

One of the ways to communicate clearly is to write a clear and concise essay. If this is a skill you are trying to teach your students, this website will give you multiple ways to achieve that goal. Some of the resources involve getting stated, all about getting organized, and knowing exactly what you need to do. How to write an essay tells you exactly which each paragraph contain, and offer tips for transitions and other tricky ideas.

Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, High School, College

Content Area: English (Writing) Dewey #808

Application Type: Tutorial, Resource

Subject: Great book for word choice, voice

From: Susan Nixon

Found at Barnes and Noble:

_Bubba - The - Cowboy Prince, A Fractured Texas Tale_ by Helen Ketteman,

ISBM 0-590-25506-1, Scholastic hardback, $15.95

This book has *wonderful* word choices! Some of them are cowboy language, such as "cute as a cow's ear" and "gussied up in their finest duds."

Others are just creative.

"You're sorrier than a steer in a stockyard."

"He felt lower than a rattlesnake in a gully."

"...darker than a black bull at midnight."

"...bonked the beejeebers out of his bean...."

"...his Stetson was whiter than a new salt lick."

I think you can see this is also a perfect book for teaching creative comparisons such as similes. I have checked specifically, but there might be more alliteration examples. And voice abounds! I laughed all the way through this book! Sentence Fluency is also well displayed. Students will love this book, and so will you. Did I neglect to mention it is a Cinderella story, complete with fairy godcow?

Susan Nixon ,Cartwright District, Phoenix, AZ

This is my first year doing six traits in first grade. I taught fourth grade two years with 6 traits. So far we have only covered Ideas and Word Choice, some... (and I mean some) conventions, and just started on Voice. I plan to work more on Voice and Conventions after Christmas and not do Organization or Fluency until the end of the year. My favorite trait is Voice, but I like starting with Idea first. I tried Word Choice this year with First Grade. We talked about Sparkling words. I used the book Elbert's Bad Word early on, because I like the term "sparkling words", which means something else in the book, but we have taken on the term to use with a word wall in our room of words that "sparkle" and when they try using a "sparkling word", I sprinkle them with "dazzle dust" (glitter) and we add it to our wall. So far, it's worked well to get them to try new words and notice when authors use words that can paint a picture. I just started on Voice. I'm finding it difficult to get first graders to put as much Voice into their writing as they do when they "reread" it and it's not all there. But we are working on it. Sometimes I do guided writing and spend tons of time one on one, trying to get them to make those beginning steps to write more than one idea... that's when I see Voice take off. But it is very time consuming and only one of me. I only have an aide 20 minutes once a week, so I've been trying to run conference groups as well as literacy groups, so that I can have

more time with each child at least once a week, beyond traditional conferencing. My literacy block is 2 and half hours, but I believe in writing as the deciding key to literacy so strongly and if I don't do it first thing, it gets pushed on a back burner and when that happens I see so much of their literacy take a dive. Wendy

I learned about this site from my Education World newsletter.

White Barn Press, where our mission is to:

Encourage writing and publishing of authors of all ages.

Provide teachers with writing and technology integration resources.

We are an online magazine for authors of all ages and teachers who want to inspire their students to write and publish for a wide audience. Send us your writing and we'll do our best to publish it here.

Overall: A

http://whitebarnpress.com

White Barn Press

Grade Level: 2-8

CONTENT: A

White Barn Press is a showcase of student writing, project-based learning, and classroom homepages published in cooperation with contributing classroom teachers.

AESTHETICS: B

The softly colored background makes the pages easy to view for a long period while reading the content. The graphics are a little slow to load.

ORGANIZATION: A

This site has a navigation bar on each page. The sections and links are well defined and easily located.

REVIEW: A

This site encourages students to write by publishing their work for a wide audience. Writing challenges are posted, and the results are published on the site along with the teachers' process notes. Classes can connect with writing partners from around the world in the Student Writing Exchange. The "Journeys" section chronicles two classrooms' shared learning journey with writing and pictures. Students will enjoy solving the problems in Word Problems on the Web, a PowerPoint project by a group of sixth graders. These students even invite other classes to send in problems for them to put into PowerPoint for publishing. Teachers can have their own Web pages published by simply e-mailing the Webmaster with the information to publish.

Here are a few sites that you might find interesting and helpful related to 6 traits. The official home page of 6 Traits is http://www.nwrel.org . This is the actual page that takes you to the 6 Traits information: http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/department.php?d=1

I've also included a few interesting posts that I have saved from the 6Traits Mail ring which is a group of teachers exchanging ideas about how they are teaching/using 6Traits.

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Kim's Korner-Ideas for Teaching Writing including 6 Traits

http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/

On Kim's Korner website, she gives a list of characteristics to use for a "Kid Friendly Rubric". Look under the section called "Ideas for Teaching Writing". Incidentally, this website is absolutely fantastic. A TE in itself for writing.

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The Teachers.Net Archive has transcripts from 4 sessions about 6 Traits Writing conducted by facilitator Kim S. They are full of ideas! Archives:

http://teachers.net/archive

(This is a really interesting site to read. It is 4 sessions about an hour in length where there is a facilitator and people write in to ask questions and share ideas. Each person's ideas are in a different color so you can follow the strands. It's like eavesdropping in a faculty lounge with teachers talking about the 6Traits.)

Kim's site has a wealth of information.

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Strategies for Teaching the 6 Traits (an excellent site developed by one of the

teachers--Susan Nixon--Cartwright District in Phoenix.

http://www.cyberspaces.net/6traits/

This is her 6 Traits Home Page that has links to lots of other resources and sites.

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Mini-Lessons for Teaching the 6 Traits

http://www.cyberspaces.net/6traits/mini.html

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Kansas has been using the six trait model for several years now. We are apparently using a slightly different model than you are as we teach ideas and content as one trait and include voice as the sixth trait.

One of my favorite activities is for teaching word choice. I have the students each take off one shoe and put it in the front of the room. Then each student is given a shoe, not their own, to write about. They must describe the shoe using no brand names. All the shoes are again placed in the front of the room. I collect the descriptions and we see if the students can tell which description matches which shoe. I have a similar activity where the students are given posters that are very similar in appearance (the original activity called for postcards). Each student (or pair of students if you prefer) must write a description of the picture they have. Again, I display the posters and read the descriptions while the students try to match them.

These activities really show them how important precise word choice is. I found that using the six traits, I'm able to be much more precise about what students need to do to improve their writing.

Becky Duncan, Washburn Rural Middle School, Topeka, Kansas

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Here is a list of words that could be used for sensory words.

Sight Words

angular bent big, billowy, black blonde blushing branching bright brilliant broad brunette bulky chubby circular clean cloudy colorful colossal contoured craggy crinkled crooked crowded crystalline curved cute dark deep dim distinct dull elegant enormous fancy fat filthy flat flickering fluffy foggy forked fuzzy gigantic glamorous leaming glistening globular glowing graceful, grotesque hazy high hollow homely huge immense light lithe little long low misty motionless muddy murky narrow obtuse pale petite portly quaint radiant rectangular reddish rippling rotund shadowy shallow sheer shimmering shiny short skinny small soaring spotless square steep stormy straight strange sunny swooping tall tapering translucent ugly unsightly unusual weird wide wiry wispy wizened

Touch words

breezy bumpy chilly cold cool cuddly damp dank dirty downy dry dusty elastic filthy fluffy frosty gooey greasy gritty hard hot icy loose lukewarm melted plastic prickly rough searing shaggy sharp silky slick slimy slippery slushy smooth sodden soft solid sticky stinging sweaty tender tepid tight uneven warm waxen wet wooden

Hearing words

bang bark boom buzz coo crackling crash crunching cry deafening echoing faint groan growl gurgling harsh haw hiss hoarse howl hushed husky lapping loud melodious moan muffled mumble murmur mutter noisy pealing pop purring quietly raspy reverberating rumble rustle scream screech shriek shrill shloshing snapping snarl snort softly splash squeak squeal thud thump thundering tinkle wail whimper whine whisper whistling

Smell Words

acrid antiseptic bitter burning choking clean delicious fragrant fresh

medicinal musty pungent putrid rancid rich rotten salty smoky sour spicy

stale stinky strong sweet

Taste words acidic bitter cool creamy delicious gooey hot juicy mild nutty pepperytipe salty savory sour spicy stale sticky strong sweet tangy tart tasteless tasty

Here are some great lesson plans for older students.

Outta' Ray's Head-Writing Lessons

http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/writing.htm

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCES -

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.htm

Hosted by the Internet School Library Media Center, this is an

excellent jumping off point for all things to do with literature-based

activities.

Subject: author sites & book discussions

From: Susan Nixon

http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies/authorstudies.jhtml

Wow! Click on your favorite author for a bio and information and activity guide for one or more of the author's books. Includes interviews with the authors.

Kids Writing Opportunities:

The Neverending Tale http://www.coder.com/creations/tale/

Kid Pub http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/

Young Writers Workshop http://www.meddybemps.com/9.700.html

Linguistic Fun Page (site for teachers) http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/

Carol HurstÕs ChildrenÕs Literature Site http://www.carolhurst.com/

CLWG: GhildrenÕs Literature Web Guide http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html

Liinda's Links to Literature http://members.aol.com/sskufca/bookunits.htm

Collection of lesson, units, activities for books for preschool to grade twelve.

Graphic Organizer Sites:

NCREL Graphic Organizers http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm

SCORE Graphic Organizer Page