Lesson plan resources

Part of Google's foray into education: a massive collection of lesson plans.

Getting lessons online

If you search for lessons online, you might as well try those written by other teachers. This site  (Teachers Pay Teachers) also allows teachers to sell lessons and worksheets to take advantage of capitalistic tendencies. But there are plenty of free offers--so you can take advantage of socialistic tendencies, too!

New ideas for the new year

from the American Library Association via NYTimes Learning Network, the best Web sites for teaching.

Best web sites

More to come as I come across new items.

Happy New Year!

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More Vocabulary resources

[See older posts for other resources]

For lists of topic/genre words:

Merriam-Webster

For synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms:

Wordnik

For Word Clouds:

Wordle

Tagxedo

For fun/learning/charity

Free Rice

Wordless books

Use books without words to allow students to use their imaginations--and their own words--to compose a narrative.

Here are some sources to start with.

Reading A-Z

Amazon.com: (someone's Listmania)

Allen County, IN Public Library

authentic writing

From Edutopia, an article about letting kids write for authentic reasons.

Round robin/oral reading

Good-bye Round Robin: 25 Effective Oral Reading Strategies
Timothy Rasinski & Michael Opitz

20 Grammar Mistakes

Via Lifehacker from Litreactor, 20 common grammar mistakes and some pretty clear explanations for avoiding them.

Links for Differentiation

Some places to look for more resources:
Edutopia's DI resources
Dare to Differentiate

SmartPAL (plastic sleeves)

The Communicator (plastic sleeves)

San Diego Quick Assessment for student reading levels