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This sites has materials for Professional Development. The free resources include VoD's to enhance the instruction in all disciplines: Arts, Foreign Language, Literature/Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science. Materials also available for purchase.

This was a lesson plan that I found. It's for Language Arts and its about poetry. Seemed to have a good idea of cooperative learning in the classroom.

Site offers: 100 templates; preview before publishing; unlimited pages; quiz creation, photo gallery, and other interactive modules. It also offers a variety of topics from English, Math, and Science to Business, Foreign Languages, Technology and more.

This is an Interactive website for Reading and Language Arts. This site is more focused on the 3rd and 4th graders. It has lots of practice for students to do, but it also has lots of things for parents and teachers to get extra help on teaching their students.

This a video describing a really neat language arts cooperative activity. Using cards they go through a set of rules and help each other as well as silently classifying the cards. I find this a really interesting lesson to try with students.

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This site is dedicated to Language Arts. This site is for kindergarten to 2nd/ 3rd grade. It offers flashcards, worksheets, coloring pages, and a lot more.

This site contains a variety of software programs that are free downloads for registered schools and classrooms. It also offers a KidsCorner with a wide selection of games, and a number of content specific games. Click on a tab for Preschool, USA, world, animals, vocabulary, languag arts, health, science or math to access the games.

This website offers a wide range of material and lesson plans for grades Pre-K thru 12th grade. It provides a wide variety of subjects including reading, language arts, math, science, special education, technology, and many more. And it is user friendly.

Online games for students grades K-5. This website offers a great support for interaction learning on the subject matter being presented. It offers language arts and math.

This website is based on Ohio State Standards but offers great resources in Math, Science, English/Language Arts, and Social Studies. It gives options of instructional, content, professional and assessment resources.

This gives learning objectives for math and language arts for the first grade. This site also gives lesson plan ideas as well.

Standards for K-12 English and Language Arts curricula as well as lesson plans.

This site has multiple games not only for math but also language arts.

In this site you can access model curriculum supporting the state standards. You can select quarterly units or individual topics. These models provide sample that offer description, time frame, sample ideas, sample questions, vocabulary, resources. Individual models show the standards that will be mastered, gives instructional strategies, samples of instructional resources/materials that can be used, and even lists some common misconceptions related to the lesson. Unfortunately, it only provides for Language Arts and Mathematics but it could be a great base for creating your own plans in other subjects.

This kindergarten curriculum website has different subjects (language arts, math, writing, social studies, science) as well as different types of activities for kindergarten students.

Outdoor time Spending time outdoors is more than just a free-play recess, but can teach kids about teamwork, sharing and how to interact with each other. Some Head Start lesson plans for outdoor time can include playing a sport, such as kickball or soccer, organizing a marching band or running through an obstacle course on the playground. Other outdoor activities can include identifying trees, plants, animals and insects that are located on the school's property. This sight offers everything for the Head Start Teacher with lesson plans for language, cognition, motor development and social and emotional development .

I absoluetly love this website. You have to visit it if you have young children or neices and nephews. Looking for a game to match your school's curriculum? Use our Curriculum Guide to find the right game or activity to meet your classroom or child's needs. The guide is broken up into four areas: Math, Language Arts, Science and Social Studies. I actually did this with my 7 year old grandson. We did the detective search to see how "Cole" was eating and helped him pick out nutricious food in the lunch line at school. We were also able to print out a worksheet that shows how many teaspoons of sugar are in your soda drink. We will be doing the test this week. Children will have fun doing the investigation while learning about science adnd healthy snacks.

This article has several ideas for small group activities that build skills and promote teamwork. It focuses on building learning strategies with diverse learners. I really like this website and will be using it it the future for teaching Reading and helping those that are struggling with this subject. ABCs of Teaching Reading classroom strategies helping struggling readers, reading topics from a-z Cooperative Learning has been proven to be effective for all types of students, including academically gifted, mainstream students and English language learners (ELLs) because it promotes learning and fosters respect and friendships among diverse groups of students. In fact, the more diversity in a team, the higher the benefits for each student. Peers learn to depend on each other in a positive way for a variety of learning tasks. Students typically work in teams of four. This way, they can break into pairs for some activities, and then get back together in teams very quickly for others. It is important, however, to establish classroom norms and protocols that guide students to: Contribute Stay on task Help each other Encourage each other Share Solve problems Give and accept feedback from peers

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