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Literacy Project Resources: Templates

While literacy skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking, and researching) are integral to all areas of the curriculum projects, the activities and resources listed here are especially relevant to these skills.

Biographical Research Aids
FamousWomenResrch.cws
FamousWomenResrch.pdf

BiographyResearch.cws
BiographyResearch.pdf

FamousPersonGrOrg.cws


WomenInventorInfo.cws
WomenInventorInfo.pdf
WomenInventor2CompV.cws
WomenInventor2CompV.pdf
WomenInventor3PrintV.cws
WomenInventor3PrintV.pdf
 
These templates may be useful in their present form for gathering and reporting biographical data. The wording could also be modified and the files could be resaved as new templates for other purposes.

Reading and Writing Resources
Creating a Wants vs. Needs List Lesson Description (pdf) This is a Wants-Needs writing activity that engages students in thinking about the differences between wants and needs while developing their thinking, organizing, and writing skills while using technology as a tool to help them with these skills.
Slide Show Introduction and Examples
These slideshows are examples of the types of slideshows students might create related to the Talking Walls countries that they research.
   

Writing Related Templates
SentenceHelp.cws
FriendlyLetterPrtsSlSh.cws
FamousPersonGrOrg.cws
MysteryReadingGrOrg.cws
NightofTwistersEdit
OhNo!Poem.cws
SpellingMenu.cws
WhenYoung1stdraft.cws
WhenYoungGrOrg.cws
WritingProcess.cws
ReportOrFlyer.cws
 
Videos
3rd Grade Authors (Kurtz) (QT Videos - Don't select these videos unless you have a high speed internet connection)

This video shows students at work in various stages of writing their books.

Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs Weather Reports (QT Sample Exerpts)

Students read the books and then wrote and acted out weather reports based upon the books. The teachers edited the videos using iMovie.

Documents to Practice Editing
Native American Edit Native American Edit: AW Word Processing File (Click to Download - Requires Appleworks)

Poetry Calendar
2003Calendar.cws
2003CalendarCentered.cws
GenericCalendarCenter.cws
GenericCalendarTempl.cws

Organizers
GenericOrganizer.cws

Newsletter
AppleNewsletter.cws
AnotherNewsletter.cws
ClassNewsletter.cws
emptynewsletter.cws
NewsTemplate.cws
NewsletterTemplate.cws
PossNewsletterFormat.cws

Yearbook Page
YearbookPageLayout.cws
YearbookPagePhotoDir.cws
YearbookPageTextDir.cws

Literature Guides

Snow White
Snow White FIll-In
SnowWhiteCyberSrch.cws
SnowWhiteCyberSrchLetter
SnowWhiteCyberSrchSheet
SnowWhiteFillin
SnowWhiteLetter
SWCyberSrchTemplate

Bread Sister
BreadSister
BreadSisterCompr.cws
BreadSisterComprComp.cws

Plain Girl
PlainGirlCh2Questions
PlainGirlCh3Questions
PlainGirlCh4Questions

GW Socks
GeorgeWashingtonSocks
GWSChapter8

Cam Jansen Mysteries
CamMysteryOrg.cws
MysteryReadingGrOrg.cws

Goals Writing
EvalAreasCombTemplate.cws
GoalsTemplate.cws
TrimesterEvalTEMPLATE.cws


HyperStudio & iMovie projects

Bookmark
BookmarkTemplate.cws
Brochure
BrochureTemplateS1.cws
BrochureTemplateS2.cws

Reading Resources
98-99ApprovedBooks.cwk An old database of approved books at each grade level.
Guidedreading levels.cwk
BookListwF&PLevels.cwk This database contains about 8,000 books that have been leveled according to Fountas and Pinnel Guided Reading Levels. These levels are cross-refernced with several other scales for the same books.