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Calling on Crowd Wisdom: RSS Feeds for Younger Readers?
Real quick: When I meet with elementary and middle school teachers next week to share Bloglines as the ideal tool for “extensive, free voluntary reading” that we all know is the key to developing literacy, it would be very helpful if I could show them some feeds that are of a suitable readability level for the full range of readers from K-12.
I’m a high school teacher, so I haven’t explored RSS feeds for elementary and middle school students.
So here’s my question: Can anyone offer guidance about how to find age- and content-appropriate feeds for young readers? Are there any tags or search terms for Bloglines feed searches that will lead to good results?
And while I’m here: I’m about to assign a semester-long Bloglines reading/writing routine to my grade 9 learners. If you’re a teacher of 14-16-year-olds, and have them blogging in your classroom, I’d love to talk about connecting my students with yours via RSS and Bloglines. Let’s connect our students, give them international audiences for their blog writings, and new social possibilities. We can assign X number of “flat school” student blog subscriptions and feel our way from there.
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