Literacy is like  tofu… it goes with everything!

Literacy goes with Social, it goes with Science, it goes with Math, it goes with Technology…

The more I look, the more excited I get, as this year my job is to inform the masses of my literacy discoveries.

One book that I finding very helpful is Nonfiction Writing Power by Adrienne Gear.

This book is especially helpful for planning nonfiction writing in Social Studies and Science classrooms.

Currently, I am looking through my own curriculum in grades 1-9 and looking for the natural connections to writing in Social Studies and Science.

What I have found is more than I expected…updates soon…

Do you have a favorite resource for cross-curricular planning? If so, let me know in the comments below.

Until next time…

Tom Hanks made a writing app.

Seriously?!

No…really…he did…

This is a Tom Hanks…

This is a typewriter

This is Hanx Writer.

Cool!

It’s FREE…but…you can purchase upgrades…Hanx 707

For $2.99,  you can add ribbon colors.

OR

For $4.99,…the WRITER”S BLOCK BUNDLE.. you can add ribbon colors, background colors, multiple documents,  text alignment and title page and picture.

I might go for the extras..but the free version does have sharing capabilities ….e-mail, kindle, ibook, Google Chrome etc.

Anyway…

Enjoy!

Until next time….