Helpful+Websites

[|I'm Determined: Student Led IEPs] A very helpful website to help students take ownership of their learning! Also provides teachers resources and lesson plans to help create student led IEPs.

The motherload: one wiki loaded with differentiation ideas. Be sure to peruse all the pages: Dare to Differentiate.

[|Enchanted Learning] This site has great printables for elementary teachers. I love the blank maps that my students can fill in. It is a great way to teach map skills in upper elementary.

[|Bookshare] I just found this website today. It is an organization that helps to ensure that everyone with disabilities has access to print. It is provided free by the US Dept of Education Special Education Office to individuals with disabilities or schools that serve these students. Your school/district can sign up, add sponsors (other teachers who will be downloading material), and add rosters of students. This is ONLY for students with learning, visual, or physical disabilities.

Illinois State Board fo Education (ISBE)

Illinois Interactive Report Card

[] - Language Arts activities, including sentence patterns, from Phyllis Hostmeyer.

I used [|www.vistaprint.com] to print postcards to send home to parents. You can choose the picture you want on the front, put your name on it, and I put "GREAT NEWS" on the back of mine. Best part....they are FREE (except shipping)! One suggestion: don't put a year on it so you can use them year to year.

[|Teaching Heart] This is great resource website for K-3 teachers, with theme ideas and other tips for your classroom.

[|www.60secondrecap.com] They have summaries of classic literature in kid friendly language. They also cover literary elements such as plot, theme, characters, symbolism, etc

[|http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/] Poetry 180 has a poem for each day of the year - designed for HS, but could be adapted Helpful Websites

__ [|Spelling City] __ - Great for students to practice spelling words.

[|Lit2go]-This site will read text to you or your students. (__**BONUS **__: Audio text is considered a Tier 2 intervention for RtI... research-based!)

[] This website provides simulations, activities, and projects for all subjects and grade levels. Many of these resources are hands-on and student led.

[] - rap of the five literary elements

Moveable Feast for Teachers: http://www.thefeast.org/teacherfeast/

Google Forms for the classroom-->some great ideas for gathering the information needed to build those important relationships!


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Google LitTrips: Created by a Google Educator and expanded by teachers, this site takes you and your class on Google Earth tours of settings of lots of books; good tutorials for those who wish to make their own LitTrips as well

I have purchased documents from [|www.teachersclubhouse.com] you can buy whole units for like $4.99 and most documents are only $0.99! (I know it stinks to spend money but the files are really well made and align with the curriculum.

[] This is one of my favorite literacy websites for K-2 students. There are so many themes and resources to use. Embedded are three other websites created by Cherry Carl as well.

[] This is a website that has tons of links to other helpful sites. It says kindergarten worksheets, but it works for all primary grades. It has themes, reading strategy ideas, mini books, etc. There is so much to look at on this site!!!

[] This is a great site for creating new educational technology games like (who wants to be a millionaire or jeopardy, etc.). I love it! When used with smartboard it becomes interactive.So cool and the kids love the games and the competition.

[] I think this website is great for any teacher that uses computers in his or her class. It is especially helpful for projects. Moreover, it is free and you do not need to create an account as long as you have a yahoo e-mail address. Basically, it is a bookmarking tool. You can save any website to it and tag it with the words or phrases commonly associated with the website you saved. It allows students to easily assess your bookmarks and see the websites you have deemed appropriate without them having to take the time to type in the either hyperlink. What a time saver!

__http://www.onlinestoryline.net__ I love this website! It features stories like __The Day I Followed My Dog__ and __A Bad Case of Stripes__ and many others read by celebrities. It's in the format of a video. The kids are captivated by it and I get caught up in their storytelling as well.

@http://www.maiolo.org/2nd_Grade/The_Daily_5.html Anything you needed to know about the Daily 5!

Wordle.net --> This site creates an image of high frequency words in a given text. The larger the word, the more frequent its use in the text. It's a great tool when teaching main idea, as the students can see which words were repeated the most and discuss what the author's main idea could be based on this. There are endless possibilities for this tool.

http://4teachers.org/ This site has all sorts of free tools such as rubistar and pbl checklists! Check it out.