Teacher+Resources

=Book Finding Resources =

CCBC Books to Use with Comprehension Strategies This is a great site for finding children's books to use with comprehension strategies. It is from the Cooperative Children's Book Center of the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

= = NoveList K-8 =This is a great book finding resource from BadgerLink. You can search for excellent book suggestions on a wide variety of topics by age/grade level. = = = = = = Graphic Organizers = = = Houghton Mifflin Printable Graphic Organizers = = This site from Houghton Mifflin offers great graphic organizers with everything from Venn diagrams to story maps. = =

=** Language Arts ** = TeachingBooks.net Great from Badgerlink for integrating multimedia into language arts lessons.

Lexile.com On this site you can enter a book title to determine the lexile.

Reading Fluency Resources This site is from Scholastic and offers a lot of information about teaching children to be fluent readers, including a video of Tim Rasinski!

= ** Lesson Plans ** = Great lesson plans and more from PBS.

=** Write a Learning Target **= This site from Byrdseed.com helps you to write excellent learning targets.

= Image Editing = Picnik Free image editing site with no log in required.

=** Intervention ** = Intervention Central This is a wonderful site for finding assessments and other resources for intervention.

= = = ** MAP Test Resources ** = Curriculum Ladders for RIT Ranges This site from Resources for Idaho teachers provides information about what should be taught next by subject given a RIT score.

= = = = = ** Reference Section ** = == =** Free encyclopedia, dictionary and thesaurus provided by BadgerLink. **= = = =Science = Science NetLinks This site from Science NetLinks contains an abundance of internet based interactive lessons on a wide variety of science topics.

= Smartboard and Mimeo Resources = [|Whiteboardblog] This is a list of 20 great interactive whiteboard resources for teachers to use.

=Sounds = = = = Royalty sounds and music from Badgerlink. Useful for PowerPoint presentations, digital stories and more. =

=** Spelling ** = Spelling City This site provides games and activities for 1, 5, or 10 spelling words of your choice

Kerpoof This is a great site for "spelling" a picture and more.

=** Stephanie Harvey Resources ** =

PRIMARY SEARCH Provided by BadgerLink

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This is a video that walks you through the steps for using Primary Search to find leveled articles for inquiry. To play the video in full size, press the play button, right click on the video with your computer mouse, then go down to "Zoom", and left click on full screen.

= BULLETIN BOARDS: = = Bulletin board ideas to support Stephanie Harvey instruction: = = = = http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3752485 =

= = = SHORT TEXTS: = = Recommended in The Comprehension Toolkit by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis = = Ready-to-use short texts, engaging content and projects, and other valuable resources for kids and teachers are available just for the browsing. =
 * [|www.nationalgeographic.com/kids] || Visit this terrific site to explore geographic, scientific, and historical concepts, issues and events. Extensive bibliographies and links to countless web sites to explore a given topic in depth. ||
 * [|www.timeforkids.com/TFK] || This site offers a variety of opportunities for kids and teachers including an archive link ([]) that allows you to print any or all of the TFK articles in English and Spanish! ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.nwf.org/kids] || The kids' section of the web site of the National Wildlife Foundation. Loaded with information about animal conservation and animals in general. Click on Prowl the Past: Ranger Rick index to find the titles and locate any past articles in the Ranger Rick archives. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.loc.gov] || The official site of the Library of Congress. Click on kids and families to discover the compelling story of America's past as presented by the Library of Congress. Or explore this site endlessly for anything you can imagine. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.nytimes.com/learning] || The New York Times kids' edition. A truly fantastic site with news summaries, science Q&As, who's who and what's what features, as well as an opportunity to explore the NY Times learning network by subject. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.thinkquest.org] || A library created by students for students. The ThinkQuest Library is a free educational resource featuring 5,500 plus websites created by students from around the world. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.howstuffworks.com] || A site that explains how just about everything in the world works! Kids will love this! ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.whyfiles.org] || A site that gives us the science behind the news. Click on The Why Files in Education for an amazing array of information on scientific topics of all kinds. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.nobelprize.org] || This site offers Nobel speeches, history of winners and their prizes, simulations for kids, and more. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.freedomcenter.org] || The web site of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Click on Learn or Educators for historic information, narratives, and lesson plans related to the Underground Railroad. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.ocean.com] || Check this out for great information, photographs, and stories about anything pertaining to the ocean and to marine conservation. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.ecokidsonline.com] || Ecokids is Earth Day Canada's environmental education program for youth who care about the planet. This web site is their interactive environmental web site for children, their families, and educators in Canada and around the world. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.nws.noaa.gov] || The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service provides up-to-date weather forecasts. Click on Education/Outreach, and then NOAA Education Page for general educational information about the weather and a list of weather web sites of interest to kids. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.exploratorium.org] || The site of the San Francisco-based Exploratorium Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception. This is packed with scientific information and interactive possibilities on a wide range of topics. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.learner.org] || The site of the Annenberg Foundation to advance excellent teaching in America's schools. Information on school reform, professional development, teaching and learning, curriculum suggestions, and so on. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.learner.org/students] || The student section of the Learner.org site with interactive exhibits that focus on extensions of a concept or theme that is explored on the site. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.learner.org/biographyofamerica] || The history of America from New World encounters to contemporary history with information, narratives, maps and links to other relevant American history web sites. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.classicsforkids.com] || A web site dedicated to hooking kids on classical music. As they say on their home page, "Classics for kids is here to help you learn about classical music and have fun too." ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.siforkids.com] || Sports Illustrated's web site for kids. Full of sports information, articles, radio programs, survey questions and more. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.kidsdiscover.com] || The web site of Kids Discover magazine. Click on Teach and then click on A Look inside Every Title and you will discover an amazing list of resources that includes a list of web sites, children's books, adult books and community resources related to the title topic. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.si.edu] || The Kids button on this Smithsonian Institution's web site leads you to a selection of arts, science and nature, history and culture, and people and places resources that support both social studies and science curriculums. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[] || The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's education site. Check out the Site Map for an impressive array of space-based resources. The site's designed -for-kids games and activities pique interest in the universe beyond our planet. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.pbs.org/teachersource] || From PBS, an educator's resource that allows you to search for featured lessons and activities by curriculum area. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.mos.org] || The Boston Museum of Science web site contains both student ("Explore and Learn") and teacher ("Educator Tools") resources. The Virtual Exhibits provide great content for a variety of topic studies. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.ushmm.org/education] || With sections for students, teachers and families, as well as for adults and scholars, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum provides in-depth information about one of World War II's most shameful crimes. ||
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.sandiegozoo.org/kids] || In addition to local zoo events, the San Diego Zoo web site offers a wealth of conservation and wildlife information, activities, and projects. ||
 * [] || Cobblestone magazine online resources. You can search by content, time period, etc. ||

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