Literary and historical topics. "Shmoop will make a handy starting point for developing background knowledge, for topic, question, and thesis development, and for test prep. Some teachers will appreciate its value for preparing lessons."
This site provides resources for authors including videos, study guides, lesson plans, and links. Search easily by title, author name, grade level, or subject area.
A website with book reviews, author biographies, quizzes and polls to engage kids in reading. Unfortunately, no search engine, so you need to explore a bit to know if there are resources specific to the book you are teaching.
Provides character analysis, historical background, themes, famous quotes, pictures, FAQs, modern connections, essays, bibliography, and further readings on hundreds of books. Although you must pay to have access to all the support materials, you can see useful excerpts. You can choose to buy the support materials for a single book, or have a site-wide subscription.
A vocabulary quiz with a global conscience. Words get harder or easier depending on whether you get the answer right or wrong. For each correct answer, freerice.com donates 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program. Kids can have words read to them. Teachers should definitely check out the options page to make the best use of this site with kids.
This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
These short booktalks are intended to be used primarily by school library media specialists and teachers to hook students on books. There are also links to a blog, podcasts, and audio excerpts of books K-12.
Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts - Literature Book Notes, Author Biographies, Book Summaries and Reference Books - Study Guides to the most read books and Help for Teachers.
This searchable website has been created by a long-time language arts teacher to provide resources and materials for classroom teachers, reading and resource specialists, speech therapists, parents and students in the area of language arts. Lots of downloadable materials focusing on the alphabet, blends, word families, sight words, homophones and much more. Find the teddy bear that says "search" to search the resources.
Free book reviews by children for children. For a membership fee, your school can join the club. Teachers receive online lessons and kids become part of the online reading community.
Links to interactive online language arts activities. Categories are Alphabet, Grammar, Fables, Languages, Learn How to Read, Poems and Rhymes, Spelling, Stories, Tall Tales and Folk Tales, and Writing.
Starfall is a creative website designed to teach children to read. The interactive books available here have sound - so please turn your speakers on. Teacher may request free writing journals for classroom use that reinforce the sequential phonics lessons of each interactive book. Grades Pre-K-1.
A collection of pre-formatted graphic organizers that can be integrated into activities and lesson plans or use by themselves. Three different formats for your convenience: HTML, Word, and PDF
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