Education

For elementary and secondary Reading, Language Arts, and English methods courses.

This brief, interactive text introduces pre-service and in-service teachers to the wealth of activities and resources available on the Internet for enhancing the reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills of K-12 learners. Its easy-to-use format guides readers, step-by-step, through more than 100 World Wide Web sites; while the inclusion of comprehensive lists of electronic journals, professional organizations, and English teacher sites make this a must-have resource.

• NEW - Thorough updating in every chapter—More than 100 Web sites described, rated, and compared on a broad set of criteria.

  • Ensures readers are abreast of the most recent, more current Internet resources available—identifies links between the science of education and the use of the Web.

• Examination of NCTE and IRA standards—Addressing evaluation guidelines for K-12 English Language Arts courses.

  • Illustrates ways in which Internet/Web instruction supports national standards—gives students confidence that they're teaching to accepted educational goals.

• Nine models of effective, creative Internet use—Offering numerous instructional prototypes.

  • Familiarize future teachers with the diversity of online instruction—help readers construct their own set of criteria for judging today's Web sites, and tomorrow's.

• Coverage of several Internet search engines—Including Yahoo! and Alta Vista.

  • Provides step-by-step instructions on executing a Web search—makes integrating online exercises into classroom instruction simple and error-free.

• End-of-chapter pedagogy—Suggested Activities, Chapter Summary, and References sections.

  • Organizes chapter material for easy review—provides opportunities for students to gauge their understanding and/or engage in further study on their own.

• Glossary of helpful Internet/Web terms—At the end of the text.

  • Introduces readers to the nomenclature of Internet/Web instruction—demystifies the language for future teachers, so that they can do so for their future pupils.

• Thorough updating in every chapter—More than 100 Web sites described, rated, and compared on a broad set of criteria.

  • Ensures readers are abreast of the most recent, more current Internet resources available—identifies links between the science of education and the use of the Web.

1. Untangling the Web.

    The significance of the Internet for Teachers

    Browsing Through the Internet

    Sites for Internet Guides and Tutorials

    Resources for Reading and Language Arts Teachers

    Criteria for Evaluating Materials

    Suggested Activities

    Summary

2. English Education Reform in a Technological World. 

    Reform Through Technology

    Models for Internet Teaching

    Role of the Teacher

    K-12 Reading and Language Arts Sites

    Suggested Activities

    Summary    

    References

    3. Reading Research and Lessons. 

    Teaching Reading

    Enabling Readers to Overcome Reading Disabilities

    Reading Recovery

    Adolescent Reluctant Readers

    Gifted Readers

    Fun With Words

    Storytime

    Lesson Plans for Teaching Reading

    Reading Across the Curriculum

    Suggested Activities

    Summary

4. Literature for Children and Adolescents. 

    Children's Literature

    Young Adult Literature

    Mythology

    Poetry

    Short Stories

    Novels

    Drama    

    British Authors

    American Authors

    Canadian Authors

    Multicultural and World Literature Authors

    Suggested Activities

    Summary

5. Language Arts Standards and Activities. 

    English Language Arts Standards

    Researching the History of English Literature

    Grammar Online

    Publishing and Exploring Student Writing

    Writing for Newspapers and Magazines

    Debating and Speech Writing

    Composing and Sharing Multimedia Presentations

    English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) Projects and Resources

    Intercultural Communication via E-mail

    Comparing Other Languages with English

    Creating School Homepages

    Newspapers and Magazines

    Suggested Activities

    Summary

Glossary. 
    An Internet Language for Easy Browsing

An Internet Language for Easy Browsing.

Reading Methods (Supplementary)  [SUPPLEMENTS]   (Reading & Literacy)

Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for Education, 2001 Edition
Allyn & Bacon
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ISBN-10: 0205319602 | ISBN-13: 9780205319602
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CourseCompass (5.0) Instructor Quick Start Guide
Allyn & Bacon & Longman
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ISBN-10: 0205531709 | ISBN-13: 9780205531707

This title is a member of the The On The Internet Series Series, which also contains the titles below . You can also visit the On The Internet Series Series page.

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  Elementary Teacher's Guide to the Best Internet Resources, The
  Cruz & Duplass
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 160 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132192705 | ISBN-13: 9780132192705
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  This text is for preservice teachers in General Elementary Methods courses and Educational Technology courses and practicing teachers who want a handy guide to the best Internet resources for the elementary classroom.

   

  It offers annotated listings of websites and devotes a chapter to each content area.  Preceding the content-area chapters are 4 foundational chapters that present information on understanding Internet technology and terminology, elementary school teachers' uses of the Internet, selecting and cataloging Internet resources, and standards-based lesson planning with the Internet.  Following the content-area chapters are chapters that address meeting the needs of diverse learners and Internet tools for teachers and students.

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  Mathematics on the Internet: A Resource for K-12 Teachers, 3/E
  Ameis & Ebenezer
  ©2006 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 128 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131715828 | ISBN-13: 9780131715820
  Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

  

  Mathematics on the Internet: A Resource for K-12 Teachers, third edition, helps teacher educators, college students preparing to become mathematics teachers, and teachers in elementary, middle, and high schools to become better acquainted with some of the resource materials and information available on the Internet for teaching mathematics.  This text helps them use the Internet to support the learning of mathematics.

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  Science on the Internet: A Resource for K-12 Teachers, 2/E
  Ebenezer & Lau
  ©2003 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 131 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130607959 | ISBN-13: 9780130607959
  Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

  

  A supplement for elementary science methods courses; a resource for in service science teachers.

  The Internet holds great potential for augmenting traditional sources of science information for elementary, middle, and high school classes. But how can teachers mine that information lode effectively, appropriately, and easily with the second edition of this handy, helpful text? Here are resources for science teachers who want to find reliable science websites on the Internet, use the Internet to create hands-on science activities, and build a science curriculum based on Internet resources. Help is also included for present and future science teachers who have yet to achieve Internet literacy themselves.

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  Social Studies on the Internet, 3/E
  Berson, Cruz, Duplass & Johnston
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 176 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132383195 | ISBN-13: 9780132383196
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  From one of the largest social studies education programs in the country, four social studies professors have crafted an annotated collection of 500 gateway web sites useful to social studies teachers. The urls are categorized by major social studies content strands with web sites  linked to the NCSS Themes.

   

              Each web site selected by the authors was reviewed and had to meet 4 criteria:

  • Comprehensiveness, to insure a breath and depth of information and resources
  • Durability, to insure its long—term usefulness
  • Self-renewing, to insure up-to-date information and improvements to the web site
  • Credibility, to insure lack of bias and accuracy

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