Program Areas

 

Source: ReadWorks (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

In this activity, students are assigned a reading passage and shown the different tools they can use during the reading. They are then introduced to a Question Set and asked to complete the activity. When the students finish the activity, it is projected so they can see the article and as a class, responses are reviewed.

Readworks is a free, non-profit site focused on improving teacher effectiveness and student achievement in reading comprehension by providing free standards-aligned content, curriculum, and tools based on the highest quality cognitive scientific research on how to learn to read.

Source: Money Management International (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 Four methods are shared on Reducing Your Food Spending

1. Stay in Tonight (examine the cost of eating out)
2. Waste Not (take a look at food at home and reduce the amount wasted, includes My Fridge Food a great place that takes the ingredients you have on hand and offers recipes to use them)
3. Grocery Game Theory (examine making bulk meals and freezing extra for another meal)
4. Cutting Cost of Convenience (use unit cost to figure best value

In this activity the class is divided into four groups who examine each method, write a summary, and present what they learned to the class.

Source: The Free Dictionary (License: CC0/Public Domain)

Use the online dictionary, The Free Dictionary as a stepping off point for developing research skills and expanding students' vocabulary and knowledge base through exploration of word of the day, today's birthday, this day in history, today's holiday and article of the day.

TheFreeDictionary.com site has many features including Word of the Day, Daily Grammar Lesson, Article of the Day,  This Day in History, Today's Birthday, Quotation of the Day, Today's Holiday, Idiom of the Day and Grammar Quiz. Word games include Hangman, Spelling Bee, Match Up and WordHub.