Handouts for Podcasting:

• Planning guide for a single topic
• Planning guide for a multiple topic

• Creating a Podcasting Booth:

  • Podcast about making a Podcasting booth
  • My web page with the pictures- podcasting booth
  Tracking sheet for the teacher

Screeen shots & Screen-cast movies on how to use common software programs with Marzano's 6-step vocabulary instruction program:

• Main site created by Eva
• Safari- using tabbed browsing for vocab
• Safari- dictionary tool
• Safari- Find function for vocab
• Firefox-tabbed browsing for vocab
• Firefox-Find function for vocab
• Inspiration- outline tool for vocab
• Inspiration- using notes for vocab

Our students' podcasts:

• Our iWeb page
• Special Ed Student Podcasts- set 1
• Set 2 of Podcasts
• Student topic as free choice from last school year

I created this Matrix of Marzano's 9 strategies for improving student achievement:

• Resource list on our school site
• Matrix

MUST HAVE BOOKS

• Marzano: Building Background Knowledge
• Marzano: Classroom Instruction that Works
• Janet Allen's book: Words, words, words.
• Nagy: Teaching Vocabulary to improve reading comprehension

Handouts from other resources:

• District 46 outline (pdf)
• ReadWriteThink
• Lynn Lary's web page handout (pdf)
• Math language vocabulary