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.
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. 
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.