Wow! This site just illustrates all that is available for free. Take a little time and plan a lesson around one of these books. But make no mistake you have to limit your resource and try out everything first. But hey, that is true of all good teaching, don't you think?
Links to a number of Conceptual Units, especially Literature and media - a number are in IRA's Read Write Think site which also has links to state standards. A work in progress.
This tool removes all "distractions" from a web page for easier reading - and printing. It's something I would always have available as an option, for a wide range of students and adults.
To get a better selection of books, it's best to add a Lexile measure as well as the Range. You can get a Range by using Current Grade and then clicking on one of the three buttons: difficult, just right, easy. Then pick a number within the range, lower to higher, depending on the student, group, or class
A Site worth looking at for Elementary, Special Education, and ELL students. Some of the tools might be a bit pricey. Look at the Blog and seriously think about an RSS feed. The links to resources are awesome.
Book sharing across the globe with Catholic Schools.
I was thinking of your fantastic, well developed blog when I saw this article. Don't know if you would be interested but it certainly sounds like a great, world sharing project.
May I have a user name and password to your blog. And permission to share what you have done with St. Thomas Aquinas and Sisters Academy. We won't write anything just observe once or twice. Your work is so important!
This site comes through Thinkfinity and this puts a music site out there for the group to check out. Thinkfinity looks like its rich resources will come in handy. When doing a music search on Thinkfinity, I typed in the key words music education and left all other drop down menus read ALL because it yielded better results for the music teacher as such. In a web 2.0 situation where I am working with a group, I can give multiple assignment choices to provoke diversity and interest.
Scholastic.com, the flagship Internet portal for the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, offers content and products for children ages 0-13 and the educators and family members who support their development.