14 Power Strategies
to Boost Reading & Writing Achievement on Standardized Tests
SECRET SITE
Prepare for a variety of passages
1. Juggle multiple texts
Broaden students’ exposure to a variety of text types
Access videos and visuals for each content area
English / Language Arts
VIDEOS
- Compare Book to Movie Version/Excerpts (Video/article)
- Compare Book to Movie Version Handout
- The Paperman Animated Short and Sara Wiley’s handout of screen shots
- Defective Detective Animated Short and Sara Wiley’s handout of screen shots
- French Roast Animated Short and Sara Wiley’s handout of screen shots
PHOTOS
ILLUSTRATIONS
- Character scrapbook page
- Idiom costumes
- TV Commercials–includes charts/graphs to denote effectiveness
- Picture Book Illustration blog
- 10 Best graphic novels–in pictures
- Clipart Gallery (B&W literature clipart)
INFOGRAPHICS
- Literary Timelines
- Compare-Contrast Writers’ Habits
History / Social Studies
VIDEOS
PHOTOS
- Virtual Tours
- Interactive Sites
ILLUSTRATIONS
INFOGRAPHICS
The Sciences
VIDEOS
PHOTOS
- The Atlantic
- Scientific American
- Science
- Mind in Pictures
- No Two Snowflakes Alike
ILLUSTRATIONS
- Visible Body–some parts of site require subscription
- Visible Body–Skeleton
- Mystery Net
- Science Spot–Mystery images with clues
- Crime & Puzzlement
INFOGRAPHICS
- Live Science–provides embed code to add infographics
Technical Subjects: Math
VIDEOS
PHOTOS
ILLUSTRATIONS
- Morph the Data–different ways to show a math fact
- Create charts with Google/
- Create a graph
- Make charts
- Use pictures to teach multiplication
- Use Google Earth to show real-world math functions
INFOGRAPHICS
Technical Subjects: Music
VIDEOS
PHOTOS
- Music in images–composes a song based on an image
ILLUSTRATIONS
INFOGRAPHICS
- Top 10 music infographics
- Archived music infographics
- Chart of the Day
Technical Subjects: Art
VIDEOS
- Teacher Tube collection of fine arts instructional videos
- Ted Ed arts videos
PHOTOS
- Math imagery
- Met Museum collection
- Art in the picture
- Interactive image of restored painting shows before and after
- Magazine Covers