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Reading, Writing and Research: Integrating Literacy across the Curriculum
Turn your students into savvy consumers of information. Explore reading and writing instruction and information literacy concepts, and learn to effectively integrate these literacy skills into your teaching, regardless of the subject or grade level.
Take this course: Begins May 4.

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character web
Organizing tool in which students identify primary traits of characters in books and plays in a visual or graphic format.

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Scannability: organizing for the web
In Writing for the Web, page 5
How you organize and format your writing can go a long way toward making it readable.
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By David Walbert.
Finding, not searching
You can work smarter, not harder, by determining your searching style, learning more about what your searches return and why, and learning to look in the right place first.
By Melissa Thibault.
Privacy policy
LEARN NC recognizes that your privacy is important and that, as a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we have a responsibility to protect your private information. This policy applies to all websites and services provided by LEARN NC.
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Tour the United States via HyperStudio Stacks
Students will combine classroom, library time, and computer lab time to research and construct knowledge about 49 U.S. states. (Students will not research their home state.) Students will use their new research knowledge and the resources provided to construct a HyperStudio stack on their assigned state.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
By Karl Schaefer.
Best practices in school library website design
You're a librarian, not a web designer, but you can have a school library website that meets the needs of students and teachers if you keep it simple, don't take on more than you can manage, and focus on what you know.
Format: article
By David Walbert.
Confirming and visualizing Lewis dot structures
With this activity, students can calculate and visualize the atomic and molecular structures of bonds and lone pairs in the molecule methanol (methyl alcohol, CH3OH).
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
By Bob Gotwals.
Teaching about slavery through newspaper advertisements
In this lesson for grades 8 and 11, students will analyze a selection of advertisements related to slavery from an 1837 newspaper in order to enhance their understanding of antebellum North Carolina, U.S. history, and the history of American slavery.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11 Social Studies)
By Kathryn Walbert.