2013's Top Education Books

The New York Times has identified its top-selling education books of the year. Some have lessons for the classroom; some, for life.

More Differentiation resources

These ideas are courtesy of Edutopia: resources and downloads.

Links for Common Core, questioning, and close reading

As promised:

• The Core Planner for incorporating CCCS in lesson plans
• Achieve the Core for lessons and writing samples
• Inspiration mind-mapping lessons
• Primary source documents from the National Archives
• Lessons for the SMARTBoard
• Common Core Flip Books for math
• Unpacking from North Carolina BOE
• The Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Happy planning!

And, yes, Virginia, there's an app for that!

Connect to all the standards easily from this app.

20 Great Websites for Elementary Educators

From Edudemic, a collection of sites worth clicking on...
And a pretty infographic, too!

Pop-up Books!

Pop-up books are lots of fun to read--and fun to make as well.  Here is a great site to lead you through the process. There are directions for simple pop-ups; the author has more complex ones if you or your students want a challenge.

Resources for math writing

Here are some new resources for teachers who want to incorporate more writing in their math lessons:

Let's Play Math
Bunches of math prompts
Theory and justifying the time for math writing (in case someone needs convincing!).  This site (Read, Write, Think) also has lessons for LAL-based reading and writing.
Standards-based math activities at Mathwire