Tar Heel Reader - Group: Teachers of Adolescent and Adult Beginning Readers http://tarheelreader.org/forum/?group=1 Simple:Press Forum Version 4.1.3 Professor on Checking http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/checking/#p47 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/checking/#p47 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:13:12 +0000 Gary on State Standards http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/state-standards/#p45 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/state-standards/#p45 Please give an example of the sort of tag you are trying to add.

Note also, that when you are writing a book you can put any tag on it that you want. The facility to add standards was intended for people other than the authors to add tags.

]]> Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:11:09 +0000 JenniferGarrett on State Standards http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/state-standards/#p44 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/state-standards/#p44 I'm having some students work on creating book that have Iowa Content standards.  Unfortunately, our state does not number their standards so I'm trying to have the abbreviate the tags.  We are running into an msg saying the standard can not be added.  Any ideas?

]]> Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:05:08 +0000 Evan Millner on book suggestions for ESL student who is illiterate http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/book-suggestions-for-esl-student-who-is-illiterate/#p27 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/book-suggestions-for-esl-student-who-is-illiterate/#p27 Why not just give him the laptop,and open the site,and let him click on books at random. When he finds a book he likes, bookmark it for him.


]]> Thu, 28 May 2009 19:45:17 +0000 scunha on book suggestions for ESL student who is illiterate http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/book-suggestions-for-esl-student-who-is-illiterate/#p21 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/book-suggestions-for-esl-student-who-is-illiterate/#p21 Hi everyone,

I teach English as a Second Language at the high school level.  I have a 16 year old student who has recently completed a special education assessment and was found to have a kindergarten reading level.  He can identify letters by name but has no connection between sounds and letters.  The assessment tests were done in Spanish (his native language) so his status as an ESL student could not explain the test results.


For the rest of this academic year, he will remain in my class.  It was suggested that I find websites to help him with literacy development and have him work on those during class. 


Does anyone have any suggestions for Tar Heel Reader books to use with him?  Books in English would be great but Spanish books would be great too.  It'd be better for him to develop literacy skills in Spanish and later transfer those skills to English.  There are so many books on here that I'm feeling overwhelmed in my efforts to find something interesting and appropriate for him.  So I thought I'd ask for suggestions.


Thanks in advance!

Sandra :)


]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:26:24 +0000 Karen on State Standards http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/state-standards/#p20 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/state-standards/#p20 When you add that for New Hampshire (or any state), can you begin the entire string with the state abbreviation?  In this case, it would be NH:S:PS4:11:3.4


Then, when folks in Florida add tags referring to the Sunshine State Standards they'd write FL:LA.4.1.6.5 when referring to the Language Arts standard (LA) at the 4th grade level (4) in the Reading Process strand (1) and the standard (6.5) which is "The student will relate new vocabulary to familiar words."


Thanks for getting this started NH!

]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:30:02 +0000 Karen on Writing Books getting the level right http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/writing-books-getting-the-level-right/#p19 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/writing-books-getting-the-level-right/#p19 The Dolch list isn't a bad place to go, but there are some other lists that have been updated over time.  I found two lists posted by a school system that resemble the copyrighted, published lists I can't send your way. The schools have divided them by grade level (1st & 2nd grade), but they'll give you a good place to start in your efforts. The link is


http://www.google.com/search?q.....0&sa=2


Thanks for contributing to tarheelreader.org

]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:20:29 +0000 vienna on Your favourite readers ? http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/your-favourite-readers/#p18 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/your-favourite-readers/#p18 Thanks I'll try those.

By the way I'm from the UK - we spelll favourite differently!

]]> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:44:03 +0000 vienna on Writing Books getting the level right http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/writing-books-getting-the-level-right/#p17 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/writing-books-getting-the-level-right/#p17 I want  to right some books that have simple words for my young adults with learning disabilities. . Is there a graded word  list  I should use to make sure I'm doing this right e.g should I be using the first 100 dolch words ?

]]> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:41:15 +0000 allyson on State Standards http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/state-standards/#p16 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/state-standards/#p16 This is exciting news for teachers in NH!Cool There are a few of us that will be going through and tagging books already in your collection-- and we will be using the NH GLE/GSE codes exactly as found in the NH Curriculum Frameworks. For example, the 3rd strand under the Physical Science domain (motion of an object is affected by force), 2nd stem (motion), 1st indicator at grade span 9-11 (Interpret and apply the laws of motion to determine the effects of forces on the motion of objects) will be listed as:  S:PS4:11:3.4

Thanks for the great resource!

]]> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:13:01 +0000 Karen on Your favourite readers ? http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/your-favourite-readers/#p15 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/your-favourite-readers/#p15

vienna said:

Last Friday my adult students with learning difficulties read books on the Tar heel reader site.. There are so many titles to choose from.I'm trying to devlop a list of favourites.What  would you recommend? Two I've picked so far are :

My WeeK

Myley Cyrus


Three of the students enjoyed reading Teletubbies in German ….!

I have a few favorites:


Be Beautiful by katie

Scrabble Rules by pennyR

Meet Violet by penny R

OK >>> anything by Penny RLaugh

No One Wears a Kilt by Reed A Booke


]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:13:52 +0000 vienna on Your favourite readers ? http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/your-favourite-readers/#p14 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/your-favourite-readers/#p14 Last Friday my adult students with learning difficulties read books on the Tar heel reader site.. There are so many titles to choose from.I'm trying to devlop a list of favourites.What  would you recommend? Two I've picked so far are :

My WeeK

Myley Cyrus


Three of the students enjoyed reading Teletubbies in German ....!

]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:05:20 +0000 alltogether on State Standards http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/state-standards/#p10 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/state-standards/#p10 Karen,  This is terrific!  I have been working on this behind the scenes and look forward to sharing.   From,  Sam

]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:42:43 +0000 Karen on State Standards http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/state-standards/#p5 Curriculum Connections http://tarheelreader.org/forum/curriculum-connections/state-standards/#p5 As you add tags to your books, consider adding tags that relate to the state standards in your state.  Let's use a standard approach.  Perhaps use the state abbreviation followed by the grade level and finally, in parentheses, include the alpha-numeric code that relates to the standard you think relates to your book.  For example, when referencing a standard from the 3rd grade Language Arts Standard Course of Study for standard 2.11 in NC, I might add a tag like:  NC3(LA2.11).  When referencing a standard from the First grade Sunshine State Standards (FL) for Language Arts, I might have a tag like: FL1(LA 1.1.1.1).  What do you think?

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