WEB RESOURCES FOR LITERACY TEACHERS
©2003, Denni Scates, Region 10 Education Service Center
Miscellaneous Teacher Resources
Galileo Internet Resources. Links to many other sources, including ERIC, USDOE, and lesson plans, materials, more. Operated by Univ, System of Ga. Board of Regents.
http://www.usg.edu/galileo/internet/education/education.html
ABC Teach. This colorful and easy-to-browse website is one of my favorites. I recommend it to any educator or parent looking for useful and creative materials and ideas. It offers month-to-month teaching themes, a rain forest unit, printable Dolch lists, literature materials (e.g., Charlotte 's Web), portfolio resources, book report forms, graphic organizers, and many, many more.
School Express. Contains free worksheets, free units, free math online activities, free stories online, award maker, spell maker, funtime, and many other activities.
Public Broadcasting System. Many kid activities related to characters they are familiar with, such as The Big Red Dog, Bert, Ernie etc. There are also many interactive writing activities. Included are links to other PBS sites.
Georgia Learning Connections. A great site for lesson plans, regular and special education information, and teaching strategies across the curriculum.
http://www.georgiastandards.org/
Apple Learning Interchange. A great site for lesson plans, regular and special education information, and teaching strategies across the curriculum.
Preschool by Stormie. Provides preschool teachers with monthly thematic activities. Stormie suggests a shape, colors, number, letters, gross motor focus, fine motor focus, nursery rhyme, water table activity, and mini-geographic/multicultural idea per month.
http://www.preschoolbystormie.com
The Perpetual Preschool. Offers teachers month-by-month ideas for various activities, plus teaching tips (e.g., about behavior management, home visits, etc.), seasonal themes, "Teacher 2 Teacher" (where teachers correspond online), and learning center ideas.
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com
California Reading and Language Arts Resources. Although focused on the needs of California teachers, this site contains many useful links of interest to all literacy educators, including research, resources, standards, and associations.
Enchanted Learning. Offers background information and free printable materials and pictures on a variety of common topics (e.g., butterflies, dinosaurs, states, Antarctica , rainforests).
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/Home.html
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE!). Offers hundreds of educational resources supported by U.S. Federal government agencies in various subjects including the arts, educational technology, foreign languages, health and safety, language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, etc.
Between the Lions. This site is tied to the PBS series of the same name. It features over 200 games and stories based on the series, divided into 30 web sites, one for each episode. Each site follows the same phonics/whole language curriculum as the series.
CyberGuides. These are activities and lesson plans centered around popular children’s literature, grades K-12. Prepared through S.C.O.R.E. (Schools of California Online Resources in Education)
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Kathy Schrock. Kathy Shrock’s Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites on the Internet found useful for enhancing curriculum and teachers' professional growth. A branch of DiscoverySchool.com.
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/index.html
Library in the Sky. Contains over 10,000 links to some of the best educational resources on the Internet, The Library in the Sky guides teachers, students, parents, librarians, and members of the community on their journeys through cyberspace.
The Muppets. Lyrics of Muppet songs, puppetry home page. Also includes a link to Sesame Street Lyrics Archive.
http://lyrics.rare-lyrics.com/M/Muppets.html
Song Lyrics.com. Check out the lyrics to those songs your teens are listening to! (Plus many others.). Linked to Google as a search engine.
http://www.songlyrics.com/songlyrics/
Education World. This site claims a searchable database of 500,000 resources. Links include: Lesson Planning, News/Eye on School, Curriculum, Books in Education, Administrators, Education Site Reviews, Financial Planning. Sponsored by American Fidelity Assurance Company.
http://www.education-world.com/
Classroom Connect. Online form of a publication designed as “the K-12 educators’ practical guide to using the Internet in the classroom.” Loads of resources.
New York Times. Presents a daily article from the New York Times, complete with classroom activities, plus this date in history, a crossword puzzle, and a current events quiz. Also offers online software and e-mail access to reporters.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning
Teaching with Folklore. Resources page for teaching folklore (myths, legends, tales, fables, religious lore). Offers lesson plans, resources, search function, more.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/myth.html
Aaron Shepard’s Home Page. Devoted to reader’s theater. Includes advice on creating classroom scripts from children’s literature and also a number of downloadable scripts ready to use. Also offers contact information and a means of sharing scripts.
KinderKorner. Great site for early childhood teachers, created by Victoria Smith! It is packed with resources, plus she shows pictures of how she gets her classroom ready for the beginning of school. [Contributed by Susan Knell]
Reading Rockets. Gives lots of information for both parents and teachers. Operated by WETA, a PBS station in Maryland . [Contributed by Susan Knell]
Nancy Keane's Booktalks. Good site for ideas and tips about giving booktalks.
TeacherFiles.com. Offers free clip art, plus " innovative lessons and resources for teachers." A creative site operated by Virginia teacher Shayni Tokarczyk.
http://www.teacherfiles.com/index.html
Reading Rainbow. There are two key sites associated with this popular series. Both offer descriptions and suggested activities by title.
http://www.canlearn.com/READINGR/rr-alt.html