Literacy (Reading & Writing)

This blog was created to accompany a presentation on blogging given to VT educators as part of a VTCite Summer Institute on 21st Century Classrooms. The purpose of this blog is to provide ideas and suggestions for how to effectively use blogs in education. It was created collaboratively by a social studies teacher, a science teacher and a technology integration specialist.

Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary and thesaurus. Generate a word and a visual graph of the word, much like one from INSPIRATION,is generated to help the visual learner grasp the meaning and relationship of words. Cool tool!

Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary and thesaurus. Generate a word and a visual graph of the word, much like one from INSPIRATION,is generated to help the visual learner grasp the meaning and relationship of words. Cool tool!

Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary and thesaurus. Generate a word and a visual graph of the word, much like one from INSPIRATION,is generated to help the visual learner grasp the meaning and relationship of words. Cool tool!

These are Ghost Stories from the American South. You can read these or listen to them and they would be a great resource around Halloween, studying folk stories, or when differentiating different genres of writing.
You have access to featured stories and over 50 archived ones.