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Online educational games and activities
linked to
Houghton Mifflin
publishers of
Legacy of Literature
Education Place
Activity page for Houghton Mifflin reading program.
Education Place: Students -
The student page - activities for the reading series.
Houghton Mifflin Legacy of
Literature Vocabulary Pictures from the Santa Monica SD-Build your students'
understanding and retention of the key vocabulary words from the anthology
selection with pictures
Teacher Tools- Free Resources
Federal Resources for Educational
Excellence this is a gateway to hundreds of resources from the
Federal government, arranged by subject area.
NeoK-12- best selection of free on-line
videos and lessons on the web. Also create and share online quizzes.
Pete's Powerpoint Station - free
PowerPoint resources and interactive activities for kids. You can download and
save the PowerPoints, change them as desired, etc.
Thinkfinity - Offers standards-based
resources and lesson plans in a variety of subjects for grades K-12. search by
subject, grade, and resource type. Has some AMAZING interactive resources.
Teacher Tools - Interactive Utilities
Bingo Card
Generator- Make either a 3 x 3 or 5x 5 card - it
will shuffle the words and you can print them.
Create A Graph- Make
and print Area, Bar, Line, Pie, and XY graphs and charts. Have up to 6
different data groups with 50 items each.
E-Examples-
NCTM Gr. K-2 Interactive exercises include geoboard tasks,
learning measurement concepts, understanding number relationships or getting to
know a calculator.
E-Examples-NCTM Gr.
3-6 Interactive exercises include geometry, data collection,
geometry, and more.
INTERACTIVE
CALENDAR: With this online tool for teachers, you can enter in your
appointments and have them printed on the calendar grid for the month you
choose. Beautiful illustrations for each month are provided by
author/illustrator Jan Brett.
INTERACTIVE CHARACTER CREATOR Choose from several options to create a
character, write a description, and print it.
INTERACTIVE COMIC CREATOR. This is a neat utility. Make a
1-4 panel comic strip with the characters, backgrounds, and speech balloons
provided.
INTERACTIVE LETTER GENERATOR -create and print a letter with this
interactive site.
INTERACTIVE PHONICS AND WORD STUDY
Find interactive phonics and word study activities from Kindergarten
through 5th grade, from letter matching to prefixes and suffixes.
INTERACTIVE
POSTCARD GENERATOR- create and print the text side of a postcard. Then
illustrate or pasted an image on the other side.
INTERACTIVE STORY MAPS an awesome collection of
interactive story maps that students can complete and print!
INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD
RESOURCES - great interactive web sites arranged by age range and subject,
INTERACTIVE
VENN DIAGRAM . You or students can use this on-line Venn diagram, fill in
the labels, and even print it.
PUZZLEMAKER-
Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles from
Discovery School.
Teacher Tools - Certificate and Award Makers
CREATE AN AWARD:
Specialize your rewards with your own message, titles, backgrounds, etc., then
download and print.
EDUCATION
CERTIFICATES-Scroll down this page for a wide variety of printable
certificates and awards, including music, art, sports, and technology.
JAN BRETT'S
CERTIFICATES AND AWARDS-Find beautifully illustrated certificates here by
author/illustrator Jan Brett, for "Smart Cookie", Perfect Attendance,
appreciation, helper, reading achievement, etc.
Teacher Tools -On-Line Reproducibles
ABC Teach
has print-ready practice sheets, printable forms for letters, job charts,
worksheets, over 100 thematic units, just a ton of stuff for teachers. For
access to some parts you need to subscribe.
MATH WORKSHEETS from Lesson
Corner- print free math worksheets in a variety of formats.
Printable
Booklets for Emergent Readers student reading activities- word
families, rhyming words, printable booklets, and more for kindergarten and first
grade students.
Reading Books Reading.com
is a subscription but does let you download and print 30 free books with
worksheets at various reading levels.
The Teacher's Corner -
Lesson plan ides, seasonal units, bulletin board suggestions, and other teacher
resources Key pals and a monthly Thematic unit.
Teacher Tools -
This is a terrific collection of teacher tools with forms and letters for
discipline, parent conferences, and other classroom needs.
PUZZLEMAKER-
Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles from
Discovery School.
VOCABULARY PUZZLES from
Lesson Corner- print free crossword, word scrambles, and searches.
Teacher Tools - Lesson Plans and Web Site
Sources
A to Z teacher Stuff-Find lesson
plans, units, tips, , downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable
worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.
Discovery School- Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for
enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the
best sites for teaching and learning.
Education World-lesson plans,
professional development, articles on school issues, technology integration
tips.
Educators Network- Find lesson plans, work sheets, theme units,
teacher tools, rubrics, etc. all in one place. You can also sign up to get
a weekly newsletter.
I4C(Internet for the
Classroom) - 100s of links and resources for K-12 teachers.
Links for Teachers
Internet for classrooms- hundreds of links in all subject areas plus online
practice modules for things like PowerPoint and Excel.
McREL Lesson Plans-
search K-12 lesson plans from the Mid-Continent Research for Education and
Learning Laboratory.
Professional Organizations- find
links to most professional education organizations.
ReadWriteThink-
From the NCTE.
Search for great lesson plans by standards, strands, or grade levels.
Scholastic Online Learning
Center has links to various activities in science, language arts, and math.
Sites for Teachers- A
directory to over 500 web sites for teachers listed by popularity with
short descriptions of each.
Teacher
Vision - Teacher Vision is a fantastic resource for teachers BUT it is
mostly subscription.
Thinkfinity -Offers standards-based lesson plans in a variety of subjects for grades K-12.
Virtual Field Trips -Take
virtual field trips on a variety of different subjects including dinosaurs,
oceans, the rainforest, and tornados.
Teacher Tools- Reading Instruction
Compact for
Reading and School Home Links 100 printable school to home activities for
grades Kindergarten through Third arranged by skill.
Mother
Hubbard's Cupboard - a website for early childhood educators and parents.
Best part is the literacy section - find rhymes, printable booklets, writing
lesson tips, and more.
Printable
Booklets for Emergent Readers - student reading activities- word
families, rhyming words, printable booklets, and more for kindergarten and first
grade students.
Reading Books
Reading.com is a subscription but does let you download and print 30 free books
with worksheets at various reading levels.
Reading levels
according to Fontas and Pennell of an extensive list of books .
Reading Rockets- Reading 101-
find great tips for teaching reading. Topics include Print Awareness,
Phonemic Awareness, Fluency, Assessment, Spelling, Writing, and Text
Comprehension, and each topic is addressed with both video clips and strategies.
Reader's
Theater resources and links for reader's theater scripts and how to
implement them in the classroom.
Teacher Tools - Rubrics, etc.
Teachnology
Rubric Generator- print rubrics for everything from presentations to
persuasive writing,
Lexicon of Learning A Lexicon of Learning. Use this glossary to find the
definitions of all the educational jargon such as authentic assessment,
restructuring, or heterogeneous grouping,
Rubrics and Evaluation Resources
The Rubric Bank from the Chicago Public Schools offers a great database of
rubrics in every subject area.
Cyberguides
The State of California has posted on line this collection of literature
units with internet links, directions, and scoring rubrics included.
K-12
Writing Rubrics Click for sample writing rubrics for various types of
writing, arranged by grade level.
Spelling and Vocabulary
On-Line Spelling Practice
Choose grade from one to five, then select either of two test choices. Option
"a" offers a listen and spell exercise, while selection "b" gives practice
in a format similar to standardized testing.
Stellar Speller Interactive
1st grade spelling game with a space theme. Other grade levels are supposed to
be added.
Vocabulary University.
Separated into 3 levels of difficulty, these free interactive
vocabulary puzzle and activity sessions use Latin and Greek "roots and cells" to
help decode words.
Spelling City Allows you to enter
your own spelling lists for practice. It will say the words to them, play
games with the words and test them.
Writing
Ace Writing.
A super web site. Learn about the types of writing, grammar, vocabulary- lots of
resources and lesson plans.
Compare and
Contrast Writing Guide - takes you step by step through writing a
compare and contrast piece.
Create A Play On-Line
Choose 2 characters from the squirrels, bunny, raccoon, and deer, and write a
few lines for your chosen characters in this scene maker for early primary.
Essay Map-
Interactive tool that allows students to create and printout an outline map for
an informational essay.
Five
Paragraph Essay Wizard - This site will help your students to become
masters of the five paragraph essay--it is a rich resource for tips and
techniques, troubleshooting, revision, spelling, and more for narrative.
persuasive, and expository essay writing.
K-12
Writing Rubrics Click for sample writing rubrics for various types of
writing, arranged by grade level.
Letter
Generator- create and print a letter with this interactive site.
Paragraph
a Week Prompts from the basis of a yearling writing program designed
to give fifth- and sixth graders practice with writing various types of
paragraphs.
Paragraph Punch :
Find an online writing tool here to help kids master the basics of paragraph
writing.
Each week a new topic is presented.
Writing Process Web Site - Charts, rubrics, and tutorials explore the
process involved in the six step writing process with suggestions for
both students and teachers alike. Click on the "writing pizza" to
explore the concepts through short QuickTime films.
Write Source- Student Models
Scroll down to see grade level examples of various types of
writing.
Other Teacher Web Sites for Communication Arts
Aaron Sheperd's Home Page Author
Aaron Sheperd has a great web site with Readers' Theater scripts, teacher
resources, read aloud stories, storytelling tips, ideas for parents,
and more .
Bank Street's
Guide to Literacy Deigned for Literacy tutors, especially volunteers,
This Website provides reading tutors with a variety of information ranging from
background information on literacy and early reading, sample lesson plans,
activities, and information on other literacy and reading resources
Carol Hurst's Children's
Literature Site Awesome! This is a collection of reviews of great books for
kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and
activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional
topics.
All About Four Blocks Find
out how to work within the different blocks. Frequently asked questions
are also covered. There are also many great handouts.
ReadingLady.com The
Reading Lady has information about Reader' Theater, Author Studies,
Poetry, Six trait writing, among others. The Four Blocks section is
extensive offering everything from rubrics to editing checklists to songs
to teach kids about punctuation,
A Book a Week Almost a full year of instructional activities
to accompany familiar and quality elementary books are included at this site.
Activity cards for each book integrate cross-curricular exercises to focus on
such concepts as letter-sound relationships, exploring different characters,
types of tales, patterning, the months of the year, and more. Titles include
Brown Bear, Brown Bear", "Chicken Soup with Rice", "The Gingerbread Man", and
"The Very Hungry Caterpillar", among several others.
http://www.discoverlearning.com/daybook/search_for_daybook.cfm K-3
WRITING ACTIVITIES: Select Language Arts and then your desired grade level to
yield a wonderful array of teacher-submitted lesson plans. Other subject areas
are also available.
The
English Room 30 DAYS OF POETRY- thirty different lesson plans, each with its
own format for students to experiment with this genre of creative writing. Many
of the formats contain templates,
Cyberguides
The State of California has posted on line this collection of literature
units with internet links, directions, and scoring rubrics included.
Reading Comprehension
Featuring free reading comprehension worksheets for teachers and parents to copy
for their kids. They include original stories, poems, essays, and articles. They
are most appropriate for upper elementary through middle school years
International Reading
Association International Reading Association
STORYLINE: The Screen
Actor's Guild offers these stories online, where students can choose from
different books and/or different actors to download an audio book. There
are also activities.
Other Teacher Web Sites for Mathematics
Aplus Math
Practice math skills at this great site.
Make and use flashcards, play math games, and get homework help. Teachers can
also create custom flashcards and make worksheets to print or have the kids
complete them online.
Arithmetic Fact
Pages MATH WORKSHEETS: Find printable math facts pages to hand out to your
students for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Addition
Worksheets Fully one hundred addition worksheets are available to download
and print at this site, with varying levels of difficulty. Great practice for
upcoming standardized testing.
Math Families: Addition & Subtraction ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION
FACT FAMILIES: Several charts are available here for both addition and
subtraction fact families, from two to nineteen. Also included are related
activities for each fact family.
Multiplication MULTIPLICATION/DIVISION FACT FAMILIES First find
lesson plans on multiplication, then fact harts and fact families with division.
Activities are also included.
Math: Fact Family
Book FACT FAMILY BOOK: This mini-book is generally applicable to
younger grades, for addition and subtraction facts. You could use the same
concept however, to create a multiplication/division fact family booklet.
Test Preparation
Elementary Test Prep Center
ELEMENTARY TEST PREP: Targeted to New York testing standards, these online exams
offer test practice in language arts, math, and social studies.
No
Pain, High Gain
TEST PREP Find strategies to attack reading and math exams, to ease tension for
the testing process, and to understand testing fundamentals. Teaching tips
are also included
Ohio Standardized Test Info SAMPLE
MATH PROFICIENCY EXAMS:
Try these sites to find suitable test prep material for your selected grade and
ability levels, from fourth through twelfth grade. Material is from the Ohio
Proficiency Tests. 4th and 6th sample test in
science, math, and writing
Professional Information
Professional Education Record Management System Get your Act 48 idea number
and Check out your Act 48 credits on-line at this site.
CCAC: Act 48 Academy
This link provides you with information about CCAC's credit program for
Pennsylvania certified teachers to complete their Act 48 continuing professional
education requirements.
PA Professional Education
Through a partnership between the
Pennsylvania Department of Education
and the National Center for the Profession of Teaching, free online Act 48
professional education courses are now available to all Pennsylvania full-time
certified public school educators via the state-funded website.
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