Christine Tomasino presents on a variety of efriendlylearning topics.
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Electronic Text for Designing Student Learning Activities
Predator and Prey text for explicit marking of text Gather text about volcanoes to create a cloze document.

Changing Faces and article in Scholastic Magazine

Retrieved from EBSCO and adapted as a Windows Journal file 
Thomas Edison for Trash & Treasure Activitiy Text for amphibian cloze exercise “Frankenfoods” or Brave New World? an article about genetically grown bio food
Gene Testing text

Read about the history of  Chocolate

Feeling the Heat of Global Warming
Vaccines informational text

Table in Word to use for a Topic Probe and a sample topic probe about Greece

 Firewalking: Myth vs Physics article for understanding science concepts
Text about Bats

The Ebb of Power article from a kids search engine Ask Jeeves for Kids

Scroll to bottom of article and click Ebb of Power

Gene Testing text for creating cloze documents

A cloze example adapted from the Gene Testing article

Previewing Text

Statues in the Sea text about underwater finds

Windows Journal  template for reading Statues in the Sea

 This Rocks! for uncovering background information about rocks. Find text on page 5.

Summarizing skills with the solar system

Microsoft Word text  adapted from http://www.genesismission.org

 
A PowerPoint file with High Stakes Testing Samples Text about Birds Text about Yellowstone and a PowerPoint file to use for developing questions
A story about fishing for peer editing Text about Heat in science principles Text about Lance Armstrong
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