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Anthology Guidelines provides an overview on portfolio guidelines K-12, what to put in, and how to arrange a portfolio.
www.relearning.org/resources/PDF/anthol_guide.pdf

Assessment and Record Keeping, chapter 10 of There's Room for Me Here: Literacy Workshop in the Middle School offers a chapter on assessment focusing on individual students, an overview of using anecdotal records, sample forms, charts, portfolios, and samples of students' work.
www.stenhouse.com/storefront/scripts/
product/ProductView.asp?prodID=0042

Assessment Strategies and Definitions offers a wide variety of responses to literature classroom practices, including forms for Book Response Journals, Comparison Charts, Conferences, Cooperative Learning Activities, and Interviews.
www.rmcdenver.com/useguide/assessme/definiti.htm

Checklist for K-8 Reading Portfolio offers a sample of one school system's checklist of what to put in a reading portfolio.
www8.chatham.k12.nc.us/centoff/curriculum/
SAS_Documents_01_02/Portfolio3%20forK-8Reading.pdf

Children's Literature—Internet Discussion Groups lists many links for online response to literature.
www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/discuss.html

Conversations in Literature—Support Materials
provides many downloadable classroom forms for using the Envisionment model (Judith Langer's) in the classroom. Check out Activity Sheet: Sample Discussion Guide, Think Aloud, Literary Hunt, and Envisionment Building Stance Wheel Sample Questions for literature discussion suggestions.
www.learner.org/channel/workshops/
conversations/conversation/support/index.html

Education Place: Topic/Theme Search
helps teachers find literature activity and lessons by theme.
www.eduplace.com/activity/index.html

Electronic Collaboration: Children's Literature in the Classroom
describes an online discussion group used by teachers to discuss their literature responses.
readingonline.org/electronic/RT/9-99RT.html
Getting Ready to Teach the Questioning Strategy, by Julie Kendall provides a description of how to get organized for teaching questioning with excellent PDF bookmarks for students.
www.middleweb.com/ReadWrkshp/JK19.html

Julie Kendall's Reading Assessment: And Now for Something Completely Different
offers an overview of classroom assessment techniques.
www.middleweb.com/ ReadWrkshp/JK35.html
Links for Poetry Teachers offers a list of links for teachers for ideas on how students can respond to poetry.
www.youngpoets.ca/links/t_links.htm
Literature Circles Resource Center offers an online site for literature circles. Visit the Structure for Intermediate Grades and Middle School project pages, which include samples of classroom structuring, units, and teacher resources.
fac-staff.seattleu.edu/kschlnoe/LitCircles/index.html

PALS Guide
offers an introduction to making your own rubrics, including samples, guidelines, and resources.
pals.sri.com/guide/scoringdetail.html

Reader's Response to Literature Resource Sites is a list of links to response to literature sites online.
www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/folklore/activity/response.html

Reading Resource Center, from Maryland Public Schools offers many classroom handouts to help students connect reading to responding.
www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/english/resources/reading.html

Response to Literature offers a response to a literature rubric.
www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/manz/FWresponse.html

Scholastic Teacher Resource Center offers downloadable lesson plans, online activities by grade level, and a Teaching with Literature section.
teacher.scholastic.com/ilp/index.asp?SubjectID=1

Shooting the Canon: Student Approaches to Literature offers many well thought out writing activities for responding to literature.
ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~jcope/Presentations/
NCTE2001/Creating%20Life-long%20readers.pdf

Teachers@ Random House Teachers Guides and More provides middle school literature lessons arranged by grade.
www.randomhouse.com/teachers/guides/grade/

Using Multiple Intelligences to Teach an Adolescent Novel provides a teaching unit for "The Watsons Go to Birmingham."
www.huntington.edu/education/sholtrop/BallStat.htm

Using a Telecommunications Project to Enhance Collaboration, Learning, and Teacher Training is an article describing two classrooms' e-mail projects. Students wrote in the voices of two characters from books they were reading simultaneously.
www.media.uwe.ac.uk/masoud/cal-97/papers/taylor-3.htm

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