This web-site is dedicated to helping students, teachers, parent-teacher, and shool systems with teaching spelling and vocabulary. This is a great site for students to learn their spelling and vocabualry words in a fun way.
Lesson plan for expanding students' use of different verbs. Includes instructional plan to be covered in four sessions, print outs, and ideas for individual and group practice. Meets several national standards for the teaching of Language Arts. Promotes use of technology, dictionaries, and thesauri.
Quizlet is the largest flash cards and study games website with over 9 million free sets of flashcards covering every possible subject. It's the best place to play educational games, memorize vocabulary and study online.
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 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.
Make a crossword or word search to help students learn vocabulary. Puzzles are printable, and many can also be played on line and linked to your class webpage. Draw from the puzzles already included. You don't have to recreate the wheel.
Concepts of Comprehension Lesson Plans
Standards Alignment with Lessons and Curriculum
Many different lesson plans with lists of materials needed and ideas for think check, guided practice and independent practice.
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.