A big shout-out to my friend and colleague, Dawn Reynolds, for snagging some great sites as sources of short web-based articles for kids. Last year, Dawn and I collaborated on a reciprocal teaching reading project, we have been scouring the Internet to find short articles (mostly non-fiction) to practice the reciprocal teaching strategies. Once we find a great short article (preferrably related to the science and social studies content) we use http://www.joliprint.com/ to convert the web-based article into a pdf document (and get rid of the web junk on the left and right of the webpage.
Here are some other great sources for finding informational text online:
The Internet Public Library (newspapers & magazines)
Newseum (6-12)
Online Newspapers (6-12)
Newsmap - Visual News (like Wordle for news) (6-12)
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AWESOME Sites! Many thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteI shared this on my blog. Which happens to be NOTHING like yours.. yours is awesome. I don't even know how many people read mine. ANYWAY!! I thought it was a great resource and one I wanted to keep!
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Thanks for sharing! I've been looking for resources for informational text :) I'm looking forward to trying out the PDF converter (www.joliprint.com)
ReplyDeleteI am creating a non-fiction reading/writing project for 6th-12th graders. After copying the URL for Kelly Gallagher's site and the NY Times Learning Network, I came across yours. What a FANTASTIC resource. I am going to add some of the age-appropriate sites you include here, if you don't mind. Thank you for doing the research. Wonderful blog!
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Great! Sure, no problem!
DeleteThanks for sharing. I linked to your post from my blog in a post about informational text resources. The one thing I've noticed is that joliprint.com is no longer in service. I found http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/ works pretty well in place of it though.
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