Resources for learners
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Students
How to study
www.howtostudy.com
Tips on how to study.
Links to other study sites as well.
Scholastics
www.scholastic.com
A site that is
filled with books to order online, lesson plans and games.
Create a Graph
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/
This
site allows students and teachers to make and print a graph.
Homework Spot
http://homeworkspot.com/elementary/math/
This
site has fun activities and provides help with math homework. There are also
lessons for teachers.
Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/
This site gives students a world of reference right at their fingertips.
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Teachers
Discipline Help
www.humboldt.edu/~tha1/discip-options.html
Need a help for discipline? This site takes you through the
steps to develop a discipline plan.
Behavior Advisor
www.BehavioralAdvisor.com
Tips for become an
effective and well liked behavior manager.
Discipline Help
www.disciplinehelp.com
Information on
how to deal with a specific behavior at school and home.
Personal
Educational Press
http://www.educationalpress.org
Want some free educational material (ex. flashcards)? This site can be
used to help students study
Kid Info
http://www.kidinfo.com
On this site, students will be provided with a variety of information
for teachers, parents, and students. For example, reference resources,
tutorials, and parenting tips
edHelper
http://www.edhelper.com/
This site offers lesson plans,
activities and worksheets for all subject areas.
TeacherVision
http://www.teachervision.com
This site offers rubrics, graphic
organizers, lesson plans, puzzles and activities.
Elementary Assessment Tools
http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/assess-elem.html
This
site provides assessment rubrics for product, process, and reading/writing
assessments.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html
This
site provides ideas for rubrics for general subjects and links to information on
rubrics.
Houghton Mifflin English
http://eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/graphorg/index.html
This site has free graphic organizers for grades K-5.
Discovery School’s Puzzlemaker
http://puzzlemaker.school
My students love it when I make a
wordsearch, crossword puzzle, etc. from this website using their
spelling list. On this site, simply by plugging in the title, the list
of words, and your puzzle of choice, one is quickly made for you. In
addition, the key is provided
KWL Generator KWL Diagrams
http://www.teach-nology.com
This site instantly creates a KWL chart for you. All you need to do is
type in your name, the subject, and the topic of study. In addition,
free worksheets, lessons on a variety of subjects, and rubrics are
available. Using a KWL chart is a great tool to use to find out prior
knowledge, what is it about the content that the students want to learn,
and, as a conclusion to a unit, what information was learned. As a
result, a KWL chart provides a direction for teaching a subject, as well
as, a motivational tool. This site makes it very easy to make a KWL
chart.
Venn Diagram Worksheet Maker
http://www.teachnology.com
Venn diagrams are a wonderful tool
to use to make connections between topics. This site works great if you
are comparing and contrasting two topics, but is unable to organize
information for three topics. To use this tool, simply add in the two
topics of interest and their similarities. Please note if too much
information is written in the circles, it will off set the diagram.
Overall, this is a good way for you to get organized online.
Rubistar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org
Teachers can create rubric for
writing or projects. A great site to use for
creating rubrics of all kinds. Teachers can create rubrics by subject,
behavior, homework, handwriting, and many more areas. All you need to
do is type in the school name, title, and your name as well as chose a
picture that correlates to the topic.
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Reading Resources
Star Fall
www.starfall.com
Starfall
An interactive website for children to enhance their reading skills.
The Partnership Reading
http://www.nifl.gov/partnership
This site offers information
about the effective teaching of reading for children, adolescents, and
adults, based on the evidence from quality research
http://www.eduplace.com
This site provides interactive games about cloze stories, guessing definitions, the six elements behind geography standards, and more.
Teachers First
http://www.teachersfirst.com/
Both of these sites provide additional activities for a variety of
areas.
Making Books
http://www.makingbooks.com/projects.html
This
has lots of bookmaking ideas to help publish student writings.
Mosaic of Thought List serve
http://www.u46teachers.org/mosaic/tools/tools.htm
This
site gives information and examples for reading comprehension strategies.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html
This
site has virtual manipulatives for the classroom.
Reading
Resources
http://www.ed.gov/parents/read
Links to articles about developing reading skills in your children that
will last them a lifetime.
Reach out and
Read
http://www.reachoutandread.org/
This website is dedicated to making books part of a healthy childhood.
Reading Comprehension
http://www.literacy.uconn.edu
This is a good site for teachers to find ideas about to teach and
troubleshoot comprehension issues for students.
Tooter 4 Kids
http://www.tooter4kids.com/
This site is a resource for educators, children, and parents alike. A
little flashy, it has great links if you have time to sift through the
site. There are free worksheets, literacy articles, online themes, and
other teacher resources including graphic organizers.
Jim Trelease
http://trelease-on-reading.com
This is a good site to find ideas about reading aloud to kids.
The School Bell
http://www.theschoolbell.com/
This website provides resources for teachers, children, and parents.
There are links to themes with lessons provided. The website provides
links organized by theme to safe websites for children, and other sites
that are excellent resources for teachers.
Literacy Center
www.literacycenter.net
This site offers help in alphabet and letter recognition in four
different languages.
Strategies That
Work Resources
http://www.geocities.com
This site contains good resources that can accompany strategies that
work and reading comprehension instruction.
Phonics
http://www.edsanders.com
This site gives a
overview of phonics rules and words for students to look at and refresh
themselves on.
Vocabulary University
http://www.vocabulary.com/
This site is where students can play games while expanding their
vocabularies at the same time.
Reading is Fundamental
http://www.rif.org/
This is the homepage for the national non-profit organization
dedicated to children’s literacy. This organization provides books to
children who are in the greatest need throughout the nation. There are
resources for parents, teachers, and coordinators for the program. The
organization also provides bilingual resources for parents and educators
Reading A-Z
Online Books
http://www.readingaz.com/index
Over
one thousand books and lesson plans to download and assemble.
Reading is
Fundamental
www.rif.org/educators
Excellent resource for teachers dealing with literacy at any age.
Four Blocks
Literacy
http://www.wfu.edu/academics
Information on how to teach literacy using the four blocks method.
Teachers Mentor
http://teachersmentor.com
Great ideas for using poetry to aid in teaching reading.
Guide to Grammar
and Writing
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
This site includes quizzes on all
aspects of grammar and the steps in the writing process.
ProTeacher
http://www.proteacher.com/
This site focuses on elementary
teachers and ideas about lesson plans and classroom management.
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Math
AAA Math
www.aaa.math.com
KidsZone
www.Kidszone.com
Cool Math 4 Kids
http://www.coolmath4kids.com
This page is full of games and activities for all ages. The Lemonade
Stand is a favorite!
Math Baseball
http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html
This website allows students to practice their math
skills related to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
while playing an interactive baseball game.
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Games
Primary Games
http://www.primarygames.com
This site contains many different games.
PBS for Kids
www.pbskids.org
An interactive
website for kids to play games and learn at the same time!!
Kaboose
http://www.funschool.com/games
Want to make learning fun? Visit this site for games that reinforce
school topics.
Funbrain
http://www.funbrain.com
Review games for Math and Language Arts for a variety of concepts.
Prongo
http://www.prongo.com/quiz
Can you study better when you are quizzed? This site offers quiz games
on a variety of topics.
