Respected Sources
Apps for Middle Leveled Students
Grammar Up: $4.99 or there is a free version
Grammar Up can help students improve their grammar, word selection, and vocabulary. This app provides students with strategies helping them in grammar success.
ReadNRespond: $.99
This allows responses from students in various forms. The forms can be student directed or teacher directed. The teacher can also present a topic or a subject to the whole class allowing for modeling to be done in the classroom.
SpellBoard: $5.99
Teachers can upload their own spelling lists, record using their voice to speak the words and then the list is created. This also keeps a record of results as well.
Grammar Up: $4.99 or there is a free version
Grammar Up can help students improve their grammar, word selection, and vocabulary. This app provides students with strategies helping them in grammar success.
ReadNRespond: $.99
This allows responses from students in various forms. The forms can be student directed or teacher directed. The teacher can also present a topic or a subject to the whole class allowing for modeling to be done in the classroom.
SpellBoard: $5.99
Teachers can upload their own spelling lists, record using their voice to speak the words and then the list is created. This also keeps a record of results as well.
Notable Resources and Links
National Reading Panel. (2000). Put reading first: The research building blocks for teaching children to read.
http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org/publications/researchread.htm.
Reading Next
http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/subjects/elarts/reading/curriculum/readingnext.pdf
Writing Next
http://carnegie.org/fileadmin/Media/Publications/PDF/writingnext.pdf
PA Core Standards located at the SAS Website:
http://www.pdesas.org/
Pennsylvania Department of Education (2011). PA Comprehensive Literacy Plan: Keystones to Opportunity
http://static.pdesas.org/content/documents/PA%20Comprehensive%20Literacy%20Plan.pdf
International Reading Association (IRA)
http://www.reading.org/
National Council of English Teachers (NCTE)
http://www.ncte.org/
What Works Clearinghouse
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/
RtII Action Network
http://www.rtinetwork.org/
National Center for Response to Intervention
http://www.rti4success.org/
National Reading Panel. (2000). Put reading first: The research building blocks for teaching children to read.
http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org/publications/researchread.htm.
Reading Next
http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/subjects/elarts/reading/curriculum/readingnext.pdf
Writing Next
http://carnegie.org/fileadmin/Media/Publications/PDF/writingnext.pdf
PA Core Standards located at the SAS Website:
http://www.pdesas.org/
Pennsylvania Department of Education (2011). PA Comprehensive Literacy Plan: Keystones to Opportunity
http://static.pdesas.org/content/documents/PA%20Comprehensive%20Literacy%20Plan.pdf
International Reading Association (IRA)
http://www.reading.org/
National Council of English Teachers (NCTE)
http://www.ncte.org/
What Works Clearinghouse
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/
RtII Action Network
http://www.rtinetwork.org/
National Center for Response to Intervention
http://www.rti4success.org/