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Summing Up 2005
The NYLearns.org team would like to thank all of our users for making this our best year yet! Over the last year, we have worked hard to incorporate your ideas and suggestions into our website, professional development and other support services. It is our hope that the increased usage of and activity on NYLearns.org means that we are providing you with the curriculum, instructional resources and tools that meet your professional needs.
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Sample ELA Assessments for Grades 3 - 8 Now Available
Believe
it or not, the English
Language Arts tests
are right around the
corner! The assessments
for Grades 3 - 5 will
be administered during
the week of January
9th, while the assessments
for Grades 6 - 8 will
be given from January
17 - 20. To help you
prepare your students
for these, NYLearns.org
has added sample ELA
tests for Grades 3
- 8 to the Assessment
Builder. Using this
tool, registered users
can create complete
exams, or search for
and compile specific
questions to create
customized worksheets.
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Poetry Archive Recordings Added to NYLearns.org
The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their own poems. Alongside the recordings, you will find a wealth of biographical information about the poets, which will assist in understanding the context for their work.
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New Curriculum Matrix Tool in Development
The NYLearns.org development team is continually working to bring new and improved tools to educators. Currently, they are hard at work on our new Curriculum Matrix tool. With this tool, registered users will have the ability to create curriculum matrices from a pre-approved district template. The matrices can be shared with all district registered users.
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Holiday Scavenger Hunt
In
December the NYLearns.org team
announced a Holiday Scavenger
Hunt. The scavenger hunt involved
locating specific pieces of
content within NYLearns.org,
bookmarking them, and creating
a scavenger hunt page on your
NYLearns.org webpage. The following
educators have won a pizza
party and box full of "goodies" for
their classrooms:
Jennifer Hanis of P.S. 178 Selman Waxman, Bronx, NY
Kathleen Hotaling-Bollinger of Our Lady of Sorrows School, Corona, NY
Nathan Phillips of Amherst Central School District, Amherst, NY
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