Literacy Links Archive

- van Asch Ultranet

- Ready to Read website

- Literacy Online

- iPad Apps for Preschoolers

- New Resources

• Ways to Encourage Inclusive Classroom Practice for Literacy

• Instructional Readers and School Journals with Deaf Characters

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• Revision of the e-asTTle Writing Tool

• Figurative Language - A Digistore Resource

• iPad Writing Apps

• New VADEC Resource

• Websites

The latest news from the VADEC Literacy team.

Sharing your knowledge about your deaf student's comprehension level

Using the internet to support the introduction of texts

Literacy and Numeracy resources for parents, families and whanau

National Reading and Writing standards illustrations

Websites for teachers

21st Century Literacy

Literacy Research Symposium Feedback

Life Skills Reading

The New Zealand Curriculum Reading and Writing Standards for Years 1 - 8

Websites

New VADEC Literacy Resources

Reading for Deaf Students: Checklists and Guidelines for Teachers

Revised Formal Retell Forms

Comparing and Contrasting

Book Reviews

Internet Sites

New VADEC Resources

Information for RTODs on the latest literacy ideas etc.

• International Children's Digital Library

• The SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard

• Boys' House Fire Reunion

• Instructional Readers: Brain Bank Kit

• Teacher Resources

• Websites

• New Resources

• Formal Reading Assessment Protocols:

— Administering the Assessment

— Recording Retell Results

— Running Record and PM Comprehension Questions

• Book Reviews

• New Instructional Reading Resources

• Websites

• New Resources

Term 1, March 2008

AAT 2 -2007 – C.I. Literacy Assessments
AAT 3- 2007 – Simple Sentence Years 1 - 6
Write it Right – Poem by Rob Allan
Probe
Draft Literacy Learning Progressions
PM Writing – Exemplars for Teaching Writing
Key to the PMs – PM Teachers’ Resource Guide
Book Review
New Resources
Internet Sites

• Annual Achievement Target 3 - AAT3
• Some Further Simple Sentence Teaching Ideas
• Ideas and Activities for Teaching Adverbs
• Sentence Builder Flip Book
• Traffic Light
• Book Reviews - The Gallaudet Writer's Handbook, Robert Gould's Time Soldiers
• Reviews of websites - Canon 3D Papercraft, Grammar Games, Sentence Structure Games, Super Duper Publications, English Works
• New Resources - Paragraph Reference Poster, Transition Clips, Comparatives and Superlatives Cards, Adverbs of Time and Place Sheets

• Retelling Lantern
• Paragraphs
• Ideas and Activities for Teaching Paragraphs
• VADEC Literacy Web Reading Pieces - Helen Keller International Art Award, Technology at Home
• New Learning Media Resources - My Feelings Series
• Instructional Reader with Deaf Character - Hello!
• Book Review - The Printer
• Reviews of websites - School Journal Teacher's Notes, Idiom Site
• New Resources - Printing Practise Sheets, Conjunction Posters

• Using a retelling rope to retell with fiction texts
• What are the different types of sentences in written English?
• Conjunctions. Ideas for teaching conjunctions
• VADEC Literacy Web Reading Piece - Deaf Sports
• New Learning Media Resource
• Helen Keller International Art Award
• Book Review - Dad, Jackie, and Me
• Reviews of websites - http://yourdictionary.com
  http://www.literacycenter.net
  http://www.nzmaths.co.nz
• New Resources - Buddy Novel Reading, Retell & Comprehension Cubes

• Writing Project Teams Visit to Toronto and Rochester, April 2006
• Using a Prop to Retell with Fiction Texts
• Ideas for teaching Word Order
• Upstart - a new magazine for Primary Aged Students
• Graphic Novels
• VADEC Literacy Web Reading Piece - Video Calling
• Book Reviews - Educating Deaf Students -From Research to Practice
• Spell Right CD Rom
• Reviews of websites - http://journalsurf.learningmedia.co.nz
• New Resources - Advanced Colour Word Poster, Retelling Hand, NZSL Parts of Speech - English Grammar

• Australia New Zealand Conference for Educators of the Deaf
• NZSL Bill Second Reading in Parliament
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• Reviews of websites - http://www.tki.org.nz
  http://sunsite.berkeley.educ/KidsClick!
• New Resource - Emergent Interactive Reader "Colours" CD Rom and Book
• VADEC Literacy Web Reading Piece - Captions

• Research Article Review - Patterns of Spelling in Young Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
• VADEC literacy web - Helen Keller reading piece
• Texts suitable for instructional reading for high school students - The Wild Side
• Instructional readers - Rascal series
• Reviews of websites - http://www.storylines.org.nz
  http://www.sailingwithoutasound.com
• New Resources - Multiple Meanings Card Game, Sentence Poster

• The Writing Project Update
• Writing Sample Reminder for ITODs - Guidelines for Obtaining Written Language Samples
• Introducing the Difficult Instructional Reading Book
• Resource/Course Information: Ready to Read Series
• VADEC Literacy Web Reading Piece - Using the NZ Internet Relay to Order Pizza
• Reviews of websites - http://teacher.scholastic.com
  http://www.fablevision.com
  http://www.riverdeep.net
  http://www.bartleby.com
• Book Reviews - The Chain Gang Series, Jason and the Blind Puppy, Missing!
• New Resource - Big and Little

• The Writing Project Update
• VADEC Literacy Web Reading Piece - Donald Gibson-Sculptor
• Resource/Course Information: Ready to Read Series Poster/Pamphlet
  Guided Reading: Years 5 to 8
• Dialogue Journals
• Reviews of websites - http://www.forestbooks.com
  www.eduplace.com/ss/maps
  www.timeanddate.com
• Book Reviews - Going Swimming, I Can't Hear Like You, Can You Hear a Rainbow?
• Instructional Reader Reviews - Deaf and Hearing Impaired Characters in Instructional Readers - Looking at Worms, Santana, Tim, Turbo Lends an Ear, What's Your Problem?, Super-Tuned!, I Heard That!, A Silent World, Sign It!
• New Resources - Inside My House, Outside My House, My Clothes--Female, My Clothes--Male, My Footwear

• Research Article Review - SSR? DEAR? USSR? Or DIRT?
• VADEC Literacy Web Reading Piece - Hearing Dogs
• Resource/Course Information: Effective Literacy Strategies in Years 9 to 13
• Ready to Read Teacher Support Materials
• Reviews of websites - http://www.assdweb.com/catsoftclick.htm
  http://www.ajkids.com
• Book Review - Moving Hands -- Celebrating 125 years of Deaf Education
• New Resource - Sand Paper Letter Templates

• Research Article Review - Theories of Literacy Development in Limited English Proficiency Deaf People: A Review
• VADEC Regional Literacy Website
• New Zealand's Telecommunications Relay Service
• Reviews of websites - www.vanasch.school.nz/literacy
  www.nzrelay.co.nz
  www.myhomelibrary.org
• Book Reviews - Angels and Outcasts - An Anthology of Deaf
  My Friend is Deaf
  Living with Deafness
• New Resources - Basic Sight Words Bingo

• Research Article - Vocabulary Use by Low, Moderate and High ASL -- Proficient Writers Compared to Hearing ESL and Monolingual Speakers
• Software: Using Word to Animate Students' Written Language on the Computer
• THE WRITTEN ENGLISH PROJECT UPDATE
• High Interest -- Low Reading Age Instructional Reading Material For High School Students
• NEW INSTRUCTIONAL READERS - Looking at Worms and What's Your Problem?
• Book Review - I am Deaf
• Review of website - http:www.deafed.org.nz
• New Resources - PM Benchmark 2 Formal Retells, High Frequency Word Chart, Student Exercise Book Labels, First Words Cube to Support Emergent Writers, First Sentence Structures Hexagonal Tube

• Research Article - Manipulative Visual Language -- A Tool to Help Crack the Code of English
• Software: Word -- Highlight Tool
• The Writing Project
• Using Formal Retells for Reading Assessment
• Interpreting Scores in a Formal Retell
• Reviews of websites - www.enchantedlearning.com
  www.edhelper.com
• Book Review - A Place for Grace
• New Resources - Personalised Resources for Emergent Readers- Colours, My Body, Where Am I?, Emotions, Physical Sensations, I Can

• Research Article - Using Verbal Protocols to Identify the Reading Strategies of Students Who are Deaf
• The Writing Project
• Reviews of websites - www.switchzoo.com
• Book Review - Dad and Me in the Morning
  Deaf Characters in Fiction
• New Resources - School bag and lunch box labels for preschoolers and new entrants

• Research Article - Television Literacy: Comprehension of Programme Content Using Closed Captions for the Deaf
• Resource/Course Information: The Writing Project: Report Writing Feedback
• Book Review - The Reading Bug

• Resource/Course Information: Inferential Reading Skills Presentation Speech
• Reviews of websites - www.bygosh.com
  www.classicreader.com
  www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/kids.htm
• New Resources - Junior Writer's Handshape Dictionary

• Research Article - "The Itinerant Teacher in Isolation"
• Resource - PM Benchmark Kit 1 Formal Retell Forms

• Resource - PM Benchmark Kit 1 Formal Retell Forms
• Reviews of websites - www.cyberkids.com
  www.nzhistory.net.nz

• Research Article - "Reading Comprehension of Deaf Readers - The Impact of Too Many or Too Few Questions"
• Resources - Phonic Sounds Book 1 and 2
  VADEC Retells - PM Benchmark Kit

• Reviews of websites
  - www.sparknotes.com
  - www.deafchild.org
  - clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/literacy/index.html
• New Resources
  - Business Letter Layout Poster
  - Facsimile (Fax) Layout Poster

• Research Article - "Teaching Inferential Reading Strategies through Pictures"
• Reviews of websites - http://ncam.wgbh.org/cornerstones
  www.deafed.org.nz
• New Resources - Root Word Chart, Starting School Photo Kit

• Software: Literacy Software - Reading for Literacy -- Nightingale Software
• Reviews of websites - www.agbell.org
  http://www.deafchild.org
• New Resources - Prefix Chart, Suffix Chart

• Software: Literacy Software - The PM Story Book Software
• Reviews of websites - http://www.wfdnews.org
  http://www.deaf.co.nz
  http://www.nfd.org.nz
• New Resources - Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning (Ministry of Education)

• Research Article - "Recent Key Research Findings on the Reading Achievements of Deaf Learners"
• Software: Word - Colours
• Resource/Course Information: Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning Asttle
• New Resources - Spelling Rules Chart
  Pronoun People

• Software: Word - James Makes Muffins, Mountain Crossing, Word and Word Art
• Reviews of websites - http://clerccenter2.gallaudet.edu/stg/index.html
  http://www.gallaudet.edudeafconnection_internationalschool.htm
• New Resources - I am Starting School Booklet, Nursery Rhymes

• Software: Word - Speech Balloons
• Resource/Course Information: DVD (Digital Versatile Disk)
  Evelyn Glennie at Kids Fest
• Reviews of websites - www.batod.org.uk/batod.htm
  http://www.edu.gu.edu.au/general/cdsr/aatd.htm
• New Resources - Punctuation Charts
  Editing Cards for Writing

• Research Article Review - "A Literacy Programme - Nine Important Pieces"
• Reviews of websites - www.silentnews.org
  www.sparknotes.com
• New Resources - Letter and envelope layout poster
  What Can I Do When I Dont Know a Word?
  Deaf Adults Reading to Deaf Children
• Ready to Read Teacher Support Material (Ministry of Education)

• Research Article Review - "How Kids Learn to Spell".
• Reviews of websites - Google Image Search http://arb.nzcer.org.nz

• Research Article Review - Miscue Analysis for Deaf Readers.
• Software: Inspiration & Kidspiration.
• Reviews of websites - http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/literacy/index.html
  http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/WorldAroundYou/index.html
• New Resources - Contractions Chart.

• Literacy Information for I.T.O.D. Introducing Literacy Links.
• Research Article Review - "An international research review of literacy intervention strategies for children with severe to profound deafness".
• World Wide Web Sites. Reviews of 2 sites - Hip Magazine and Deaf Child International.
• New Resources - Verb Charts - Regular & Irregular Verbs and Junior Verb Chart.