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Content Areas
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Fun Brain
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EdHelper
Printable resources for different grade levels and subject areas
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Interactive Websites
This site offers interactive websites for each subject area for grades K-12 -
Fact Monster
This website has dictionary, encyclopedia, homework helper, and more for different grade levels.
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Arcademic Skill Builders
Educational video games offer an innovative approach to teaching basic academic skills
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Ohio Resource Center
This site offers Ohio content standards-based lessons for reading, science, and math.
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Teachers First
This is a collection of lessons, units, and web resources. It is very easy to navigate and find what you are looking for!
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Seussville University
This early childhood website has teacher resources and student activities based on Dr. Seuss books for reading, math, science, a -
Leveled Books List
Guided reading book titles listed by letter level and grade level. (K-6)
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Thinkfinity
Resources for many content areas
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Read Write Think Interactive
This link within the ReadWriteThink website is completely interactive for students.
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Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
This site includes lists of children's books by grade or content area, and also includes lesson ideas to go with them.
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Ohio's Treasure Chest of Resources
Online collection of websites which are high-quality, teacher-reviewed, interactive, and free. Aligned directly to the Ohio Acad
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Graphic Organizers
All types of graphic organizers to assist students with reading and writing organization -
Web English Teacher
various links for English/LA teachers
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Alphabet Soup
Resources for thematic units and holiday activities.
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Non-Fiction/Content Area Reading
A strategy for reading non-fiction
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carls corner
plethora of primary language activities and resources
Math
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Cool Math
An amusement park of mathematics! Have fun with interactive activities and games from arithmetic to algebra.
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Interactive Math
This website offers links to interactive math resources based on grade level.
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Interactive Math Games
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Math Playground
Online activities for math practice
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Online Math Games
Math games and videos for different concepts
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Math Worksheets
Printable worksheets for math practice
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AAA Math
AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons.
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Math Lessons
Different lessons and units for math
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Multiplication Cafe
Fun, interactive games for kids to play.
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Multiplication Magician
Timed web test to help kids master math facts.
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Math Games and Activities
Cool interactive geometry shape games.
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Fun Games for All Math Topics
Games students can play broken down by the Ohio content standards.
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On-line Math Activities
Links to several online math activities
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Learn Math and Money Skills
Free eduactional games to help kids learn better money management skills for life.
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Kaboose Math Games for Young Kids
Free online math games for kids of all ages
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Quia Math
Over 1,000 online math games and activities
Foreign Language
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Spanish Pronto Learning Tools
This site contains cultural, reading, listening, and vocabulary building strategies and exercises.
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Project Sherezade
Includes stories and audio in Spanish along with reading guides
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Childtopia
Educational Games, Stories, and Handouts in 5 different languages!
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Milcuentos (1,000 stories)
These children's stories in Spanish include an audio track so that students may read and listen to the story.
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Teleformacion
An education site in Spanish including links for art, reading, music, games, and information for parents and teachers.
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Raining Backwards
A wonderful short story in Spanish about immigration. Each page is accompanied by a reading guide and exercise.
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Reading Strategies handout in Spanish
This word document can be used for any reading.
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Pen Pals
write to a pen pal K-12 - great for foreign language teachers/students
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Literacy Center Education Network - Spanish
Basic word identification skills - available in English too.
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Las vocales
Practice with pronunciation of vowel sounds and blends along with pictures.
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Alfabetizacion
Literacy page for adults and children
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The Literacy Project
Booklists, videos, etc., available in English, Spanish, and French
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Literacy Videos
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Magazine Guide for Children
Magazines for children complete with illustrated stories online
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Sight Word Printable Books
In English, French, and Spanish - Also contain pictures for pocket charts for reinforcement
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Spanish / English sight words
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Voice of America
News articles with audio component in English or Spanish
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Free reproducible language and early literacy activities in English and Spanish
Leveled and bilingual suggestions for parents or teachers
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Spanish Language Resources for Literacy
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abc Teach - Reading Comprehension
Readings in Spanish with comprehension questions and key
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Spanish Reading Comprehension Skills
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Beginning Spanish Dialogue, Reading, and Grammar exercises
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fenetiks
the sounds of spoken English, German, and Spanish, including sound clips and examples
Social Studies
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National Geographic XPeditions
Home to thousands of tools, ideas, and interactive adventures
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EdSiteMent
A collection of history and social studies lesson plans
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CIA World Factbook
Information about countries
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US Historical Archive
Contains historical maps and photographs
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Social Studies Activities
Pearson textbook online activities to supplement different lessons. Interactive
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Guardian's Egypt
Travel to ancient Egypt to explore the Great Pyramids.
Science
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EdHeads
Interactive site that can be used for activities from weather to simple machines
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Weather Wiz Kids
Great information on weather, types of severe weather, and fun experiments to do.
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Weather Resources for Teachers and Parents
Great ways to teach weather concepts, including "the weather dude" a singing meteorologist.
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The Atoms Family
Cool science experiments and information related to the monsters from the Addams Family.
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The Magnet Man
Fun experiments to do to teach magnetism.
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Theater of Electricity
Information on electrical concepts and inventors.
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Learning Games for Kids
Selection of games and songsfor priamry students in science.
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Discovery Channel
Wealth of science information
Fluency
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CBM Warehouse
This website includes math and reading fluency assessments. You can also create your own fluency probes!
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Fluency: Instructional Guidelines and Student Activities
Article about strategies to use to help improve reading fluency.
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PBS Kids Stories
Stories read to students that highlights the words as they go along. There are word games to play too.
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Recorded Picture Books
Students can read these short books online, or choose to have the book read to them.
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Fry's Readability
This site lets you enter the number of syllables, words, and sentences to determine the readability age of a text.
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Classic Books Online
Classic books and other documents in full text
Assessment
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Rubistar
Create your own rubric.
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San Diego Word Test
Fluency assessment based on word recognition.
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Fluency Assessments
For grades 3-5; passages to determine fluency level.
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Rubrics for Assessment
Rubrics GALORE for all grades and subjects
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Quia
create eduactional web pages, games, tests for a fee
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Soft Schools
SoftSchools.com provides free math worksheets, free math games, grammar quizzes and free phonics worksheets and games. Worksheet
Writing
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The Writing Fix
Interactive Writing Prompts
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EssayPunch.com
INTERACTIVE website for students to use with their writing
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ParagraphPunch.com
INTERACTIVE web site to assist with writing
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A to Z Teacher Stuff: Handwriting Practice
On this site, you can create handwriting practice worksheets. Perfect for primary grades!
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Writing A-Z
Core writing lesson grouped by genre and text
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6+1 Writing Traits
Provides a universal language for students and teachers to use when teacing writing.
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Diana Hacker Research & Documentation
This website shows you how to research and document all types of writing
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Scott County Digital Story Telling
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realebooks
interactive site for kids for books and kids
Comprehension
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Comic Strip Creator
Students create their own comic strips
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Seven Strategies to Teach Students Comprehension
Article detailing several comprehension strategies and ways to introduce them to your class.
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Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Reading comprehension worksheets for extra practice
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Reading A-Z
Offers thousands of printable teacher materials to teach guided reading, phonemic awareness and reading comprehension
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Raz-Kids
Learning A-Z is dedicated to pitting developmentally appropriate books, lessons and other resources intro the hands of educators
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Starfall: Where kids Learn to Read
Teachers and parents use starfall to help theer students learn to read. There are interactive computer games and worksheets to a
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abcteach
Language arts, math, science, social
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Comprehension Strategies
Lists six comprehension strategies, book lists, lesson ideas, and printables for each strategy
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Interactive Plot Diagram
Trace plot structure using this interactive diagram
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Plot Structure PowerPoint
Teaching plot structure: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution and conflict defined
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Reading Rainbow
Discussion ideas, curriculum, study guides and activities for children based on books showcased on the TV show.
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A Year with Gail Gibbons
This site offers year-round activities that coordinate with Gail Gibbons' nonfiction books.
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Story Sequencing with Arthur
Students arrange the story in order, and then read or have the story read to them.
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Online Stories and Books
Students can read these stories online; no audio.
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Searchlight
Overview of Effective Instruction For Elementary Struggling Readers
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Storyline Online
Celebrities reading picture books aloud. Each book has accompanying activites and lesson plans.
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Into the Book
Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Us
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Reader's Theatre Scripts
Contains some free reader's theatre scripts
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Reading Strategies
Reading Strategies for High School Students and some for elem. and middle school
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Socratic Seminar
improving reading comprehension through Socratic Seminar
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Reading Strategies
ESL
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Colorin Colorado
This bilingual website is for teachers and parents of ESL children. It offers book suggestions, advice for parents and teachers.
Vocabulary
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Vocabulary Builder
Vocabulary games geared towards middle and high school students
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Puzzle Maker
Create your own word puzzles
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Word Girl
Fun vocabulary game from PBS kids
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Vocabulary A-Z
Build hundreds of customized vocabulary lessons
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Word Girl
Fun vocabulary game from PBS kids.
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Spelling City
Use your spelling words to create games for kids to play.
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Vocabulary
links to vocabulary activities, websites
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Connotation and Denotation
lesson plan
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Analogies
Interactive games using analogies
References
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Learning Disabilities Association of America
On this website, there are explanatory and helpful articles about understanding learning disabilities.
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The Teacher's Desk
Grades 5-6 lesson plans and activities for reading & writing
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International Reading Association
Literacy Professionals Website
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What Is A Learning Disability?
Brief overview of what a learning disability is.
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What is ADD?
Brief description of ADD and ways to help at home.
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What is a Developmental Handicap?
Brief description, and links for help.
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Teachers Helping Teachers
A website written by teachers for teaches that includes lesson plans, resources, and more.
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Seeking Help for a Struggling Reader: Seven Steps for Teachers
Reading Rockets article describing steps teachers can take to help their struggling readers
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A to Z Teacher Stuff
Everything from lessons to word search generators to strategies for students with ADHD.
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Books For Guys
A web-based literacy program to help boys find stuff they like to read. Created by the children's author Jon Scieszka.
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Homework Hub
Tips and tools for staying organized from Scholastic
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The Lexile Framework for Reading
This site includes information on lexile measures, and also includes a list of books according to lexile measure and interest.
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Thinkfinity
Search engine that gives access to free, top quality educational resources for parents, teachers, and students.
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Teacher's Net
Lesson plans, blogs, topics, etc.
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Teacher Sites
This website has tons of links to teacher websites.
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Google for Educators
Google has this seperate website geared for teachers to help find different resources.
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Tomie DePaola
This is Tomie DePaola's official website, and offers a lot of resources, as well as a link to a list of every book he has publis
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Reciprocal Teaching
Teaching strategy that gives students and teachers shared responsibility.
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NEA Kids' Top 100 Books
This is a list from the National Education Association of the top 100 books kids like to read based on a survey conducted in 200
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ALA List of Newbery Medal winners
Lists all Newbery Medal winners; also links to Caldecott winners
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TeAchnology
Online teacher resource with lesson plans, printables, and more.
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Reading Lady
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Thinkfinity for Educators
free educational resource for everyone
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Reader's Workshop
Professional Development
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Educator's Reference Desk
Professional articles and resources
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National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
This website has helpful research-based articles, lessons, and journals.
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Outside the Box
Education resources and teaching sites providing articles, research, ideas, curriculum, assessment, and special needs.
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Teacher Tube
A teacher's version of YouTube. You can view videos of teachers teaching lessons, as well as get fun lesson ideas. Wide variety.
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Bridges 4 Kids
Glossary of terminology, laws, legislation, and opportunities for special populations.
Interventions
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Intervention Central
Reading, math, and behavior interventions
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Seeking Help for a Struggling Reader:Seven Steps for Teachers
Reading Rockets article describing steps teachers can take to help their struggling readers
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Suggested Accomodations for Specific Behaviors
A list of 35 different intervention strategies to help students
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Intervention Strategies
Supplies intervention strategies for students who struggle with memorization, attention, sequencing, handwriting, and reading.
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Freeology
Free graphic organizers
Technology
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Word Talk
Free, downloadable. It will speak the text of the Word document and will highlight it as it goes.
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Audacity
Audacity is a free, downloadable piece of software for recording and editing sounds
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Teacher Technology Handbook
Lesson plans/ideas for integrating technology into your K-8 classroom. Corresponds with national standards & Bloom's Taxonomy.
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Digital Storytelling
students use multimedia/technology to tell stories
Pre K- K
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Hubbard's Cupboard
A website for early childhood educators