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Novels on Location - Read Your Way Around the World [from Richard Byrne's blog]
"The idea behind Novels on Location is to help readers find novels according to the story's geographical settings. When you visit Novels on Location you can find novels by clicking on the placemarks that you see or by using the location search bar in the upper, right corner of the site. If you want to contribute to Novels on Location you can do so very quickly by simply entering a location then entering the title and author of your favorite book set in that location."
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College Readiness: Writing to Learn [from Edutopia]
A nice discussion on writing to learn (as distinguished from "writing to think"); very valuable post for future reference, if for nothing else than the well laid out distinction of "reflective" versus "reflexive" writing
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Start a Reading Revolution: Flip Your Class With Blogs [from Edutopia]
What does flipped learning look like in a literacy classroom? Basically this blog post describes the reading/writing workshop model gone "high-tech," with students creating blog posts from home on topics of their choosing.
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The best way for students to become writers [from the The Answer Sheet blog]
Guest columnist, Janet Yatvin, discusses the reading-writing connection and mentor texts: "More than lessons on how to write an effective argument or an informational piece students need to immerse themselves in the worlds of stories, poems, myths, fables, business letters, opinion and information essays, advertisements, instructional manuals, newspaper articles, memoirs, biographies, and whatever else captures their interest."
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Dr. Joseph Murphy, Professor of Education at Vanderbilt's Peabody College of Education and Human Development
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Travel the World From Your Classroom: Free iPad Apps for Virtual Field Trips [from Edutopia]
Virtual field trips for thematic text sets
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