Fantasy+&+InfoTexts


 * Linking Fantasy and Informational Texts** - Internet Workshop
 * Article: for Discovery Memo: [|Internet Workshop: Making Time for Literacy] (Leu, 2002)
 * Websites featured during class Powerpoint presentation
 * Fantasy and Non-Fiction: [|Guardians of Ga'Hoole]
 * Biography: [|Children's Encyclopedia of Women]
 * Biography and Non-Fiction: [|Bicycle Heroes: Two Centuries]
 * Sample Interdisciplinary Connections: [|Scholastic Literacy Place, Grade 5 Connections]
 * Scholastic's Sampling of Interactive Activities and Interdisciplinary Connections: [|Grades K-2 and 3-5]
 * [|Magic Treehouse: Vacation Under a Volcano]
 * A [|Teacher's Guide] for Vacation Under a Volcano from Random House
 * [|Mary Pope Osborne's Homepage>>]
 * [|Magic Treehouse Site] from Random House Kids
 * [|Podcast] with Mary Pope Osborne
 * **INTERNET WORKSHOP BOOK ACTIVITY**
 * Three Star Internet Project Teachers:
 * [|Marci McGowan: Grades 1 and 2] - see her [|list of Internet Projects]
 * [|Mary Kruel's Blog]: Grade 4 (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin) - see links to other classrooms on upper left corner
 * [|Susan Silverman]: Grades K-6
 * Online Critical Evaluation Reading Strategies: [|Don't Buy It! Get Media Smart Activity] and [|Teacher's Guide] from PBS
 * Leu, Leu, & Coiro (2004). [|Teaching with the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times] includes three other instructional models for teaching with the Internet, including Internet Project, Webquests, and Internet Inquiry. Some of the ideas are outlined on the website, including the [|basic guidelines for] the instructional models, ideas for l[|anguage arts classes], and ideas for [|young children in the primary grades] or children with [|special needs].