Summer Reading Brochure - Elementary (PDF, 937Kb)
This
website contains a variety of resources for the professional
development of teachers in reading and language arts, including
PowerPoints, speakers notes, handouts, brochures and handbooks for
teachers. For example The Reading Teachers Sourcebook.
This website comes
from the National Endowment for the Arts and contains guides and radio
shows to many of the classic books and authors like Edgar Allen Poe or
Ray Bradbury. These guides include information about the authors,
characters and plots of the stories as well as lesson plans and
activities.
This is the language arts page of Education World and has a huge variety of activities and lessons for language arts.Information Literacy Links:
- 21st Century Information Fluency
- Main Idea and Supporting Details - handout
- Organizing Main Ideas and Supporting Details - lesson plan
- Main Idea and Details - handout
- Social Studies: Main Idea and Details
- Text Structures
- Text Structure
- 20 Strategies to Teach Text Structure - word doc.
- Transition Words
- Transition Words and Phrases
- Nonfiction Text Features
- Nonfiction Text Features
- Teach Text Features and Read Nonfiction
- Text Features - pdf
- Lesson Plans for Teaching Text Features and Text Orgaization
- Using Context Clues
Informational Texts:
Time for Kids - Great resources on this website - articles, worksheets, quizzes, graphic organizers Grades K- 6.
National Geographic Explorer - This website has articles from National Georgraphic Magazine for kids.
Scholastic News Online - This website features news articles from Scholastic.Popular Science - This has a number of articles on various technology and science related topics. It also has how does it work articles.
Discover - This website has some really interesting science articles (warning not all of them are appropriate)Social Studies for Kids - this website has a large variety of Social Studies articles. You may need to do some copying and pasting if you want to print an article on one page.
Discovery Kids - This website has some short articles under the Tell Me tab.
The Kids Know It Network
- This website has a collection of different websites with some good
articles. Again you will have to do some cutting and pasting to get a
print version of the article.
This link is a blog from Scholastic which includes some great posters and ideas for teaching non-fiction texts.
This website has a number of printable resources for teaching text structures including printable sorting games.
Information Literacy | Informational Texts | Poetry | Short Stories
An online community of educators devoted to improving literacy with a focus
on middle grades. These are documents the members have agreed to share.
This
website contains hundreds of stories both fictional and non-fiction
along with related media such as photographs or videos. The stories are
grouped into eight main categories - biographies, disaster, trials, flicks, history, inspiration, religion, and sports.
Thinkfinity
is a search engine linked to a number of educational sites such as Read
Write Think, and EDSITEment. You can search by state standards, grade
level and subject for activities and lesson plans.AdLit.org is a multimedia project offering help to the parents and
teachers of
struggling readers. The site contains articles, strategies (like
graphic organizers), and research on adolescent literacy.Author Tube: This website provides interviews with authors talking about their novels and stories.
This website contains a very brief explanation of three level questions.
This is currently my favorite website.
It has a huge variety of resources for novels, Shakespeare, poetry and
other subject areas, such as Civics, US History, Biographies, and
Music. . Each book has an overview, themes, characters, quotes,
pictures, and links to other web based resources.
This
website contains a collection of study guides about literature, essays,
teacher resources, ideas, speeches, writing, and assignments. Very
useful for both teachers and students.
This
website presents links from a wealth of sources - all provided free by
the Federal government. There are links to sources documents,
multimedia - everything you could want and you can search by subject
area. A great site.
On
this website you can sign up for free daily current events articles
along with class discussion lessons to go with them. You can also sign
up for onefree DVD every year.
This website has articles on current events that would be interesting to teens and tweens.Poetry Links
Sample Metaphor PoemsShort Stories
This webpage has links to a large collection of short stories that are easy to print out.American Literature - This site has a huge collection of short stories as well as author profiles that are easily accessible. A great resource.