One of the coolest teaching resources I discovered while in grad school was Strategy Tutor, a website that allows teachers to create web-based units with built-in text entry boxes that allow students to complete assignments online within the site, and interactive, animated coaches that teach students different reading strategies: summarize, predict, question, clarify, visualize, feeling, reflect, web evaluation, media literacy, and journal.
Strategy Tutor was created by a group of educators including one of my favorite professors at Vanderbilt, Dr. Dalton. (Their blog, Literacy Beat, is listed in the sidebar.) Strategy Tutor is a free website, but you must create an account to be able to access all of the features. As a member, you can create your own lessons and units, share your work with other teachers, and adapt other teachers' work to meet the needs of your classes. The site is really easy to use after taking a little time to get to know it, and it gives you a medium to create safe, guided web-based learning activities. Please explore the site, and I highly recommend you join. Here's a link to a mini unit I created for one of my grad school classes, but as a guest, you will not be able to see it now exactly as you and your students will once you all become registered.
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