LESSON PLANS AND TEACHING TOOLS
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Stretch Break for Kids! Computer generated kids doing ergonomic stretches automatically prompting you to follow along every 30 minutes. This helps prevent repetitive motion injuries for students and teachers alike. This is a free download!
School Days Teachers Lounge - find super activities for your classroom, free stuff for your school, children's author sites, lesson plans, and lots more.
The Literacy Web at the University of Connecticut - a super resource for classroom literacy strategies sorted by grade level from Pre-K to Adult Ed, research-based information, professional organizations, recommended professional books, online discussion board, and much more.
www.GuysRead.com - Jon Scieszka's literacy initiative to get boys in touch with books they will want to read. A superb site!
Booklists for Young Adults on the Web - compiled by Maggi Rohde
Ask ERIC - Virtual Lesson Plans Galore!
Reader's Theater, How to Set Up Your Classroom, and more great information for Reading Teachers, compiled by Donna Shaw
Word Lab: Building Word Knowledge through Literature
From the creator, Carla Kessler: "I wrote this program because of my own frustrations in helping "word readers" get past that block. I finished my Masters thesis 4 years ago (on the research of vocabulary acquisition) and have pursued creating a workable curriculum ever since. My husband is a computer programmer, so that made it possible to translate my ideas into reality. It has grown substantially and this year my school district let me have a 1/2 time leave to gather validating research on the effectiveness of the program and to increase the number of book curriculums available, as all the activities are based on vocabulary from literature. In other words, kids read a book while they apply the comprehension/vocabulary activities to chosen vocabulary within the book they are reading."
Spelling.org - a great Web site with special emphasis on dyslexia and other learning disorders, and adult literacy, with lots of spelling/reading tools and lesson plan help, including information for homeschoolers.
Graph Goodies combining reading and math.
Gumbo: Lesson Plans for English Teachers
Learning to Read - tons of great reading research links
Teacher.Net - Lesson plans for nearly every occasion!
Quick and Simple Book Talks by Nancy Keane - this site is quite extensive and is more for librarians but has some really terrific book lists and references for every educator.
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