- 4-Blocks --Guided Reading, Self Selected Reading, Writing and Words--represent four different approaches to teaching children to read. Daily instruction in all Four Blocks provides numerous and varied opportunities for all children to learn to read and write. This web site is published by the creators of the 4-Blocks, Cunningham and Hall.
- 4 Blocks Literacy in Kankakee: The purpose of this web site is: To provide a World Wide Web platform for the continuous sharing of ideas, questions and concerns in implementing the 4 Blocks approach. To provide templates, lesson ideas and plans which would assist in the implementation of 4 Blocks.
- AdLit.org is a site for parents and educators of kids in grades 4-12, about adolescent literacy.
- American Verse Project: This site is an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. Simple searches help locate poetic texts from Bronson Alcott to Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Contains extensive and useful bibliographies. Students should use the "Simple Search" option when looking for poetry on a specific subject or by author. Grades 9-12
- byGosh.com provides on-line complete novels, nonfiction, stories, poems, and kid's classics.
- Can I Have a Word: Inspire your students to become creative writers with the resources and
activities at Can I Have a Word? The site features four projects
including the elements, the human body, the Odyssey, and changing
voices. These four projects cover various areas of creative writing
such as descriptive writing, conversational and narrative prose,
creative character prose, and influential writing.
- Classic Reader.com where you can read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others. The collection currently contains 651 books and 906 short stories by 196 authors. New works are added to the collection on a regular basis.
- CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric.
- Database of Award Winning Children's Literature has over 3,500 records from 49 awards. Entries are indexed by age, format, gender, genre, awards, ethnicity, setting, keyword/author, historical period, languages, multicultural, and publication year.
- Doucette Index: provides access to books and web sites that contain useful K-12 teaching suggestions related to books for children and young adults, and the creators of those books.
- EDSITEment: educational resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities; lesson plans, activities, links for these subject areas: art & culture, literature and language arts, foreign language, history and social studies.
- Everyday Spelling: Workroom: Writing Prompts: The more students write, the better spellers they become. Writing prompts encourage the integration of spelling, proofreading, and writing. Use these writing prompts for additional ideas for writing and spelling practice.
- Free-reading.net: a wiki with early reading lessons, activities, a word generator, audio and video resources, and more; from Scholastic Administrator.
- Fry's Readability Graph: Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators offers directions for use of this tool. Edward Fry, formerly of the Rutgers University Reading Center, created one of the most widely used, and easy-to-use readability graphs for educators.
- HarperChildrens.com: Our printable Teachers' Guides include general discussion questions and suggestions for reaching across the curriculum: math, science, language arts, music, and social studies. The theme and skill connections offered in the guides give students the opportunity to think about issues in some of our finest novels.
- Literacy Center is a great site to use with the little ones. Interactive, children can learn numbers, letters, colors, shapes, writing, words and the keyboard. And it is also quadlingual besides English, you can use the site in French, Spanish or German.
- Literature Learning Ladders: contains Internet resources for award-winning books and other favorites. Learn to build your own book-Internet connections, thematic materials, and literature circles for your classroom.
- LibriVox: free audio recordings of public domain books
- Look, Cover, Spell offers a fun way for kids to practice spelling words. You can use the words from the site or create your own.
- Mighty Book: Pre-K-8, Children can enter the library that corresponds to their age group: 2-4, 4-6, 6-8, 8-10 or pre-teen. Books can be read aloud or the sound can be turned off for independent reading. Students can visit the Videoplex to find edutainment music videos and animations on such topics as animals and great humanitarians.
- On-line Children's Stories: folklore, myths, legends, songs, poetry, classics, Christmas stories, reader's theater, and more
- On-line Poetry Classroom: This web site contains tools designed to help teachers incorporate poetry into high school classrooms. At this web site you can: learn how to teach poetry; find lesson plans; find a poet or a poem; visit the teacher forum for sharing ideas; visit provided links to recommended education, technology, and poetry sites.
- Poetry 180: This site contains text of 180 poems written mostly by contemporary American authors selected with High School students in mind. It suggests ways to present the poem and guidance on how to read aloud the poem.
- ReadingLady.com: 4 Blocks Literacy Model resources, 6 Trait Writing, author studies, discussion groups, poetry, and more.
- Reading Units: Questions and Activities for various literature books grades 5-8
- ReadWriteThink: a site providing access to succesful practices, lesson plans, and resources in reading and language arts instruction
- Sadlier-Oxford Phonic Interactive: Explore phonetics with this extensive education resource stie tha tuses word-match games, memory cards and a host of in-depth activities to teacher students about letter, sounds and words
- Scholastic: standards-based lesson plans, professional resources, interactive projects and activities for grades PreK-8.
- Spaghetti Book Club: The Spaghetti Book Club web site is a place for kids who love to read and talk about books! It is the largest site of book reviews written and illustrated by kids for kids.
- Story Starters: The way a story starts is really important. The first couple of sentences either make you want to read more or just put the book away. The beginning of a story should make the reader want to find out more, and to keep reading, but sometimes it's hard to think of a good way to start a story.
- Teacher Book Wizard on the Scholastic web site. "...which will let you level ANY book according to gradelevel equivalent, lexile framework, guided reading, or DRA! It will find titles for each of those criteria as well to better match students to appropriate text. I have used the e-catalog for a couple of years, but I believe this will be more helpful with our MRI focus," Cindy Brown, 4TEC teacher at South Elementary.
- teachersnet 4Block Center: links to lessons, resources, and chatboards
- TeachingBooks.net: Connect with authors on-line, find teaching guides online, watch videos of authors, subscribe to a customized newsletter
- Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities.
- Web Sites for the Write Way is a site dedicated to writing resources, specifically in the areas of Writer’s Notebook Techniques, Poetry, Graphic Organizers, Paragraphs, and General Writing Links.
- WebTime Stories: an annotated collection of web sites for people who love children's literature. Though there is nothing quite like reading a good book, the Internet combines the printed word with graphics, sounds, interactivity and animation to create rich and memorable reading experiences. Though there are literally hundreds of web sites on Children's Literature, Webtime Stories is not a comprehensive collection. Instead, think of it as a "best of" list, a gathering of sites that are truly worth a look. Some section include: myths, fables, and fairy tales; picture books, young adults, and more.
- Writing Prompts for Journaling
- WordNet is an online lexical reference system. This is a useful tool for teachers as "nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept.
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