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AMAZING resource!! Perfect resources for my reading kids!

research-based classroom strategies to help build and strengthen literacy skills in the following areas: print awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.

Activities for Students Centers Grades K-5. Activities compiled by the Florida Center for Reading Research include objectives, materials list, and step-by-step instructions.

This comprehensive tutorial gives all the details on using gated blogs safely in the classroom, including explanations of blogging basics, a TeachersFirst Step-by-Step on how to start one, complete charts of the features of several free blogging tools for teachers, and over two dozen ideas for how to use a blog with your students.

Great way to create rubrics for your students!

iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. iRubric School-Edition empowers schools with an easy-to-use system for monitoring student learning outcomes and aligning with standards.

This resource would be great for anyone who has an interactive whiteboard or even computers in their classroom. Brainflips allows you to create flash cards for any content area. After creating the flash cards there are different "modes" that students can use to learn the content. What a great way to practice spelling words, math facts and so much more!

Help students in grades 2-4 stop the summer reading slump by downloading these free books. Audio and comprehension included.

Each ZIP file contains all seven PDF titles in the grade-level series Students who don't read much over the summer show a decline in reading performance from the end of one grade to the start of the next.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. This site is very comprehensive and professional. For anyone interested in doing research.

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This is a great website for teachers to look up lesson plans, games, assessments, glyphs, worksheets, etc., for any subject. Some things can be accessed for free, some cannot. Annual membership is only $20, and allows you unlimited access. Teachers may search by subject, skill, or grade level. The site is very user friendly, and has a lot of great resources!