Blogs we adore!

 

This site is amazing.  It is FREE and you can download leveled nonfiction Text passages and questions.  Lessons can also be filtered to CCSS.  MUST check out, but you will have to create an account to use the site, but it is FREE! 

  

 

Helpful Apps for your tablet, iPad, phone, etc. 

 

 

Elementary Cross-Curricular Thematic Common Core Units 

 

 

Share common core lessons for all grade levels  http://www.sharemylesson.com/ 

 

A common scale for matching reader ability and text difficulty:  www.lexile.com

 

Online reading program:  www.readinga-z.com

 

Guided Reading in Kindergarten:  http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/guided_reading.html

 

 Integrated literacy projects utilizing popular trade books  www.littlegiraffes.com

 

Interactive word games in English, Spanish, Dutch, and French  www.literacycenter.net

 

Free downloadable alphabet and nursery rhyme worksheets  www.literactive.com

 

The BEST site for writing-Writing workshop, mentor texts, journals, RAFTS, and more!  Writing Fix

 

If you don't know about Teacher's Pay Teacher's you MUST click here!  It is a website where teacher's sell or give away all their worksheet and unit creations.  You download and print.

 

Teacher's Notebook is similar to TpT above.  Another great spot, inexpensive and targeted to exactly what you teach.

 

Scholastic is Still a great site for Teachers!

 

Pinterest is a Pinboard site that has enormous potential for teachers.  It is all visual and you can pin ideas, pictures of classrooms, unit ideas, etc. Or use it to search.  You do have to create an account but it is FREE! 

 

Read, Write, Think is a site that offers not only teacher resources, but also student interactives which allow your students to create poems, letters, diagrams, online.

 

A printable list of top websites for kids