Teacher Resources

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

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 suppor

Teacher Literacy 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
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