Reading and Writing SuperSites

Laura Candler's Teaching Resources: Find great resources, lessons, and ideas in the online "file cabinet" of this veteran teacher.

AuthorChats: Have your class participate in online chatting with authors of children's literature. Enjoy their archive of previous chats with authors!

Big 6 Skills Model™ Information Problem-Solving Approach: Find resources and strategies for teaching students research and technology skills. Includes a free newsletter.

Book Raps: Have your class read and "discuss" books with students around the world via e-mail!

The Four Blocks: Read about integrating Writing, Working with Words, Guided Reading, and Self-Selected Reading to support children's literacy learning!

Literature SuperSites

Doucette Index: Use this index to find great teaching ideas for K-12 children's literature!

Nancy Keane's Booktalks, Quick and Simple: Find over 750 booktalks, booktalking tips, and much more!

PoetryTeachers.com: Find fun strategies for teaching poetry along with activities, contests, poetry theater, and more!

FictionTeachers.com: Find fun strategies to teach fiction, classroom theatre scripts, and much more!

Aaron Shepard Online: Find reader's theatre scripts, hear Aaron Shepard read stories, use resources for young writers, and much more!

The Reading Corner: Find lists of state and national children's literature awards. Learn about recent releases and more!

Planet Esme: Find topically organized lists of children's literature, Storytime Central, information on author studies, and much more!

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site:  Find lists of topically and thematically organized children's literature and much more!  Sign-up for the free newsletter!

Story Arts Online: Find storytelling lesson plans, activities, links, and more!

Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page: Explore children's literature topics, genre,  issues, and much more!

The Children's Literature Web Guide: Peruse this web site to find the lists of award winners, websites of authors, links to lots of children's literature resources, and much more.

Links to Literature: Enrich you reading with links to your favorite authors and links related to children's and young adult literature!

Early Childhood SuperSites

EduPuppy: Gain access to a multitude of excellent early childhood web resources! Create your own class web page and much more!

KinderArt: Find art activities, lessons, and resources to celebrate the holidays and support learning!

KinderKorner: Find a variety of early childhood resources.

Technology Education SuperSites

Nick Nacks Telecollaborate! Participate in a collaborative project or create your own collaborative project! Use their resources to learn how!

Kidlink: Find global class projects, do research, participate in activities, and share with others!

Wigglebits: Building a School Web Site: Learn how to create a web site with/for your students (even if you don't know anything about it now)!

Classroom Connect: Find excellent resources to support student learning through the internet.

ePALS Classroom Exchange:  Find classrooms all over the world for keypals and other collaborative class projects.

Content SuperSites

Blue Web'N: A library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the web.

Get It Straight: The Facts about Drugs online drug prevention book for teachers and parents to use with kids.

Computer Crime: A Lesson Plan for Teacher of Elementary and Middle School Children (published by the Department of Justice).

General Teaching SuperSites

Teachers.net: Find lesson plans, grade level mailrings, live meetings, and much more!

The Staff Room: Find dozens of rubrics, webquests, and much more!

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Find web sites for instruction, lesson plans, professional development, and much more.

Beginning Teachers' Tool Box: Ask a mentor a question, find tips and tools for the beginning teacher, and much more!

Saskatoon Teacher Resources: Use this well-maintained site to access webquests, scavenger hunts, internet projects, and many other resources!

Teachnet.Com: Get great lesson ideas, share and get ideas from the Teacher2Teacher mailring and more.

Education World: Read great articles, search their lesson plan database, and much more.

Teaching Media:Find strategies, lessons, and units for promoting higher level thinking and media literacy!

Snapshots of Classrooms Around the World: See how other teachers do it! Find photos of classrooms, learning centers, and bulletin boards! Add your classroom to this site!

National Network of Partnership Schools: Helps schools develop and maintain programs of school-family-community partnerships. Provides guidelines for interactive homework.

EduHound: The Engine for Everything Education, K-12: Find links to education news, lesson plans, publications, student resources, and much more!

The Project Approach: Find information and resources about implementing the project approach in early childhood and elementary classrooms!

The Idea Box:  Discover crafts, activities, recipes, and more! 

About.com Ideas for Elementary Educators: Includes lesson plans, resources, ideas, and links to help the elementary school teacher.

Loogootee West Elementary School: Use this elementary school web site to find keypals around the world, teaching resource links, tips for designing a school homepage, and rubrics for helping elementary students evaluate web sites.

to foster equity, respect, and understanding in the classroom and beyond.

Collaborative Lesson Archive: Search the web site for lesson plans on specific topics or share a lesson for others to use.

Mrs. Seagraves' QUEST Class.  See how a class web site can show class activities, include online learning fun, market its class printing and design business, explain how the web site was created, and much more!

Professional Organizations

International Reading Association (IRA): Join this organization for reading and language arts professionals, read the descriptions of their publications, peruse their schedule of conferences, or locate other information related to this professional organization.

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE): Join this organization for reading and language arts professionals, read the descriptions of their publications, peruse their schedule of conferences, or locate other information related to this professional organization.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM): Join this organization for mathematics professionals, read the descriptions of their publications, peruse their schedule of conferences, or locate other information related to this professional organization.

National Association for the Education for Young Children (NAEYC): Join this organization for early childhood teaching/childcare professionals, read the descriptions of their publications, peruse their schedule of conferences, or locate other information related to this professional organization.

Council for Exceptional Children (CEC): Join this organization for special education or gifted education professionals, read the descriptions of their publications, peruse their schedule of conferences, or locate other information related to this professional organization.

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL): Join this organization for teachers of students who speak a language other than English as their first language. Read the descriptions of their publications, peruse their schedule of conferences, or locate other information related to this professional organization.

National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE): Join this organization for bilingual educators, read the descriptions of their publications, peruse their schedule of conferences, or locate other information related to this professional organization.

National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC): Join this organization for professionals who teach gifted children, read the descriptions of their publications, peruse their schedule of conference, or locate other information related to this professional organization.

American Library Association (ALA): Join this organization for media, library, reading, and language arts professionals, read the descriptions of their publications, peruse their schedule of conferences, or locate other information related to this professional organization.

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA): Join this organization for science teaching professionals, read the descriptions of their publications, peruse their schedule of conferences, or locate other information related to this professional organization.

Research SuperSites

AskERIC: Ask questions with through their Q & A Service or search the ERIC database for articles, information, and research on education related topics.

ERIC Clearinghouse of Reading, English, and Communication: Search the ERIC database for articles, information, and research on reading and writing related topics. Follow links to other websites related to reading and writing.

Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA): Find research and strategies to support early literacy development.

Reading Online: Read this peer-reviewed e-journal for literacy educators which is published by the International Reading Association.

SEDL--Paso Partners--Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Language: An Instructional Program (Department of Education) Bilingual instructional units for K-3.