Pam Petty's Internet Sites that Promote Literacy Development through the use of Trade Books

Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking with Dr. Seuss

Muskingum College Center for Advancement of Learning Reading Comprehension
URL: http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/reading.html#Alert 
WONDERFUL site that includes information and strategies for READING COMPREHENSION. 
The best I have seen on-line. 

Reading Comprehension
URL: http://www.coedu.usf.edu/~morris/redcomp.html
Table of Contents 1) Shared Resources 2) Round 
Robin Questions 3) Retelling a story 4) Cooperative Reading 5) Focus Sheets for Background 
Knowledge Part One 6) Focus Sheets for 
Background Knowledge Part Two 7) Construction of Graphic Organizers 8) Domes 9) Story Graphs 10) Story Sequence 11) Semantic Mapping 12) Sequence and Cartoons 13) Bears, Bears, Bears. 

Literature-Based Reading Activities
by Ruth Helen Yopp, Hallie Kay Yopp.  Paperback - 
160 pages 3rd edition (August 23, 2000)
Allyn & Bacon; ISBN: 0205319637

Good-Bye Round Robin : Twenty-Five Effective Oral
Reading Strategies by Michael F. Opitz, Timothy V. Rasinski, Lois Bridges Bird

Strategies That Work : Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding by Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis

Incorporating Literature into the Basal Reading 
Program by Judith Cochran, Gayle Seaberg Harvey (Illustrator), Sherri Y. Lewis (Editor)

Pam Petty's "Pig" Websites

Pam Petty's Folktale and Folklore Websites

Books for Beginning Readers
URL: http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/jensen2.htm
A briefly annotated bibliography of books that are appropriate for beginning readers. 

  The Read-Aloud Handbook (4th Ed)
by Jim Trelease Paperback - 387 pages 4th edition (August 1995) Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 0140469710
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Pam Petty's Recommended Writing Resources

  If You're Trying to Teach Kids 
How to Write, You'Ve Gotta Have This Book by 
Marjorie Frank, Judy Howard (Illustrator), Kathleen Bullock (Illustrator)Paperback - 255 pages Revised edition (March 1995) Incentive Pubns; ISBN: 0865303177 

  The Literacy Center : Contexts for Reading and Writing by Lesley Mandel Morrow
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Making Words - templates  URL: http://www.k111.k12.il.us/lafayette/fourblocks/templates_-_making_words.htm 
Pocket chart templates for the book Making Words by Patricia Cunningham. Amazing resource.

Making Words?A Guided Spelling Instructional Strategy
URL: http://www.readingcenter.buffalo.edu/center/research/word.html
Steps in planning a Making Words lesson and theoretical background on technique. 

Pam Petty's Internet Site of Recommended Books 
that Promote Language Learning 

Interactive Word Games - Words in a Word
URL: http://24.2.81.10/fcgi-bin/jumble.pl 
Enter characters in the space provided and a list of 
the words that can be derived from the characters 
will be displayed.

Interactive Word Game - How many words can you make?
URL: http://www.joelson.addr.com/makingwords.htm 
Move the Scrabble letters around on the screen to make new words.
 

Making and Writing Words
URL: http://www.readingonline.org/articles/words/rasinski_index.html 
Making and Writing Words is a variation of Making Words, a popular spelling and word study instructional activity. In Making and Writing Words, students are guided by their teacher in writing and sorting words using a limited set of letters. Teachers have found that the activity is engaging and appears to be helpful in developing students' proficiency in  word recognition and spelling.

Graphic Organizers 

Perfect Poems for Teaching Phonics : Grades K-2 by Deborah Ellermeyer, Judi Hechtman, Sandy Ford Grove, Sandra Grove

Easy Lessons for Teaching Word Families : Hands-On Lessons That Build Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Spelling, Reading, and Writing Skills  by Judy Lynch

Teaching Reading and Writing With Word Walls : Easy Lessons and Fresh Ideas for Creating Interactive Word Walls That Build Literacy Skills by Janiel M. Wagstaff

Rhymes and Reasons : Literature & Language Play for Phonological Awareness by 
Michael F. Opitz

Thematic Poems, Songs and Fingerplays : 45 Irresistible Rhymes and Activities to Build Literacy
by Meish Goldish

Holiday Piggyback Songs by Jean Warren, Gayle Bittinger, Marion H. Ekberg (Illustrator)