Learn how to use World Book Online features to support Multi-Language Learners. We will look at our 3 foreign language resources, Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos, Banco de Contenidos aulaPlaneta, and L’Encyclopédie Découverte, as well as features within our core products such as read-aloud functions, translations, different reading levels, and more!

Join us for an overview of your World Book Online resources. With a specific focus on High School resources, Student and Advanced, you will walk away knowing the best time-saving tools for research, accommodation, teacher-planning tools, and where to find more information on all features. We will also take a brief look at eBooks, Timelines, and Discover and how they can be used in the secondary classroom.

The Dyslexia Handbook offers guidance, resources, and appropriate supports and interventions for readers with dyslexia. It is also a communication tool for educators and parents to work together. Our hope is that both educators and parents will use the ideas and techniques in the handbook as a team. It is vitally important that struggling readers not give up on themselves; it is just as important that we as educators and parents assist and empower students with dyslexia to enter the world of reading feeling empowered and prepared for their future.

This is the second lesson in a series of two introducing the Gale Reference Library. Students will browse the Opposing Viewpoints in Context on Gale Reference Library. After choosing a debatable topic, students will read the overview to summarize the argument and identify opposing claims. Next, students will choose two resources (one representing each side of the debate) and evaluate the claim and argument for each resource.

This resource will help your students to practice using the Utah's Online Library. This will help them to become familiar with features available to them, and practice reasearching. 

Dani and Jared are excited to welcome Victor Karkar to UEN Homeroom this week. Victor is the CEO and cofounder of Scrible, an educational software that seeks to tackle the massive research and writing skills crisis among America’s students. During our conversation, we address such topics as: why it is vital that students are able to research effectively, how Scrible helps students determine what is good, relevant and correct information, and how schools can help students understand misinformation vs information.

This article provides an overview of the free online tool VoiceThread and discusses how elementary teachers might use it in language arts and science classes. Resources provided.

A sample plan for implementing a Genius Hour project in CE English 1010 to help students determine what they want to do after high school and how to achieve that.Preview Image: Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash

Why Writing Works: Disciplinary Approaches to Composing Texts is an open-access, online textbook resource for college writing. It is written for an audience of second-year college students with a focus on writing in the disciplines.

This video tutorial gives an introduction to using Worldbook from Utah's Online Library.

In this final post, I'll now turn to some instructional strategies to support ELLs at the middle school level as they work with an element of one of the CCSS writing anchor standards. I'll conclude with some resources on writing for ELLs.