TL2014 – Resources you may find useful… 07/26/2011
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Word Tamer – creative writing help | The Whiteboard Blog
Word Tamer is an interactive flash-based website where you “tame words and train stories. The site helps students create and develop new writing possibilities. All the ideas can be saved and printed off to be developed off-line. You can even print off certificates! The site contains different sections such as Wild Words, Prowl Through Plot, Capture a Character, Snare a Setting and Grapple With Genre. Each task is simple to get into and fun for children to play. Word Tamer is created by children’s author Judy Waite and is born out of the creative writing workshops she delivers in schools.
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Common Core Curriculum Maps | English Language Arts
Common Core has released a new, Second Edition of the K-12 Curriculum Maps in English Language Arts. The Maps are designed to help educators meet the expectations of the Common Core State Standards, which call for the standards to be “complemented by a well-developed, content-rich curriculum.”
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Animaps – Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free!
Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time.
