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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.
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 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
POSTCARD GENERATOR- create and print the text side of a postcard. Then
illustrate or pasted an image on the other side.
INTERACTIVE VENN DIAGRAM . You or students can use this
on-line Venn diagram, fill in the labels, and even print it.
INTERACTIVE STORY MAPS an awesome collection of interactive story maps that
students can complete and print!
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.
INTO 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.
Busy Teachers Cafe- Free worksheets, reproducibles,
and web sites for grades K-6.
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.
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.
Marco Polo
-Offers standards-based lesson plans in a variety of subjects for grades K-12.
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.
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.
Phonics and Word Study
Find interactive phonics and word study activities from Kindergarten
through 5th grade, from letter matching to prefixes and suffixes.
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.
Reading Workshop
Activities for Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Word Study,
Vocabulary, and Comprehension.
Eventually each standard
and benchmark for the state of Florida will be linked to online examples,
practice and tutorials which you can access from home. At present, the
Interactive Reading Standards and Benchmarks are ready for use. Many
of them match closely with PA.
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.
AAA Math Second Grade Math Find a great resource
of second grade math lessons
here, with background explanations, examples, and on-line exercises. Topics
cover most grade two math curriculum, including Roman Numerals, place value,
addition, subtraction, time, and patterns and sequences..
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.
Spring-Themed Math Pages Choose your grade level,
from one to five, and find
a wide array of grade-level math worksheets to print out, all with a spring
theme.
National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives Awesome web site - use every type of
math manipulative online.
Illuminations
INTERACTIVE GEOMETRY DICTIONARY: Each geometric definition here--lines, rays,
segments, medians- comes with its own interactive tool to explore the properties
defined.
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.
Educational Research
Web Site Links
CARET Center for Applied research in Educational Technology
Educator's Reference
Desk ERIC is the
Educational Resources Information Center
(ERIC), a federally-funded national information system that provides, through
its
16 subject-specific clearinghouses,
associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, a variety
of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.
Education World Education World is a clearing house offering
educators the ability to search over 500,000 research articles, research
studies, web links, etc,
Educator's
Guide to Schoolwide Reform
American Association of School Administrators- information on school wide reform
programs. There is also a current issues and ideas section
Educational Research
Newsletter The Educational Resource Network is a newsletter that gives
information about change in education. Search the archives or the Ed links to
find web sites that relate to various keyword topics.
Laboratory for Student
Success Temple University’s Center for Research in Human Development
and Education.
Library Spot a virtual library resource center for educators and
students
Mid-continent Research
for Education and Learning McREL or the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
Midwest
Regional Educational
Laboratory Midwest Regional Education Laboratory
Milken Family
Foundation Publications The web site of the Milken Foundation
has numerous links to research especially in the areas of teacher preparation,
accountability, and educational technology.
NCLB Blue Ribbon
Schools Blue
Ribbon Schools Link. Search the case studies for schools that have won the Blue
Ribbon for best practices.
Northwest Regional
Educational Laboratory Northwest Regional Ed Laboratory
Pennsylvania
Department of Education Pennsylvania Department of Education
Sites for Teachers Compilation of hundreds of web sites for
educators
Teachers.net Gazette a multimedia web magazine highlighting education
news and articles
US Department of
Education: Search This links you to the search
form for the US Department of Education web site.
US Department of
Education: Teacher's Guide This is a table of contents guide
to the many areas available on the Dept of Education web site. |
