Resources

Teacher Resources

Beth Newingham's Reading Workshop
The Daily Cafe & The 2 Sisters- from the authors of the Daily 5
Florida Center for Reading Research - extensive site with review of programs and student center activities
Literacy 911
Mandy Gregory's Literacy Site
Leveled Book Database
Booklists for Reading Strategies- lists of books to help you teach reading strategies
Mrs. McGowan's Reading Resources
Into The Book - lessons, downloads, and videos for all strategies
Mosaic of Thought Resources- find blackline masters for all reading strategies (5 Finger Rule bookmarks, posters, reading conference forms, lessons and more!)
Content Reading Strategies that Work - Lots of useful information and ideas here!
Glenwood Intermediate School Teacher Resources – resources listed by reading skill, has book lists too!
Jordan School District’s Balanced Literacy Website - Wonderful tools to use
The Book Seer - Find book to read
What Should I Read Next? - just like The Book Seer, enter the title of the book you are reading or have read and it will help you find other books to read
Getting Boys to Read - my favorite site for ideas on getting boys to read. Follow the author, Mike McQueen, on Twitter too.
Guysread - site by author John Scieszka. Offers teachers, parents and kids different types of titles and ways to get guys reading!
Gamquarium - portal for learning games galore

Printable Stories

Miscellaneous

Character Education Book Lists- authentic literature that helps teach the character traits
Free Reading Comprehension Powerpoints
Forever Quest- online graphic novel
Read Me a Book - listen to stories online, letters and sounds of the day
Lightning Bug - create a story from start to finish
The Lost Lunchbox - a choose your own adventure story/game
Castaway - another choose your own adventure story
Fairy Tales - From We Tell Stories, help to write the choose your own adventure story
Mother Goose Club - online nursery rhymes with audio support

Weboword - Vocabulary Visually
Vocabulary can be Fun!
Free Rice- learn new vocabulary for a cause
Vocabulary.com - resources for students and lessons for teachers.
MyVocabulary.com - Home of Vocabulary University, great site for help with prefixes and roots

Audio Stories and Podcasts

Technology Resources

Museum Box - develop a virtual box of information on people, times, or events in history
Wallwisher - online bulletin board, interactive with lots of possibilities: See 105 Ideas for Wallwisher, Nik's Learning Technology Blog on Using Online Sticky Noticeboards - provides great tutorial on Wallwisher
Google Lit Trips - Use Google Earth to discover where in the world stories take them
Wordle - create word clouds from text you input.
Tagxedo - Word Clouds made into pictures
Skype an Author Network
We Make Stories- make your own stories
Using Google Docs in the Classroom - short presentation with 24 ways to use Google docs in your classroom
Prezi.com- create cool presentations
Kerpoof Studio -create stories and scenes
Storybird - create short stories with friends and family
Voicethread - create and share projects
Bubbl.us - mind mapping online