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For Common Core resources, teacher videos, strategies and lesson plans, go to Teaching Channel. Find great ideas and strategies in classroom teaching videos covering Math, Science, English, History and more.

A great site for teachers and parents that provides information on teaching. It even has a themed reading list (a technique we read about). Take a look around, it has some great resources and information!

how to use the Socratic method in teaching children

Pathways to the Common Core: Videos from Inside Classrooms features almost 40 clips of Common-Core aligned teaching and learning. Captured scenes of classroom teaching in an effort to help you imagine methods of teaching that can support students in moving towards the ambitious standards set by the Common Core.

Has literacy resources for educators such as videos, classroom strategies, helping struggling readers, reading topics, learning about common core standards. Great site for teachers.

The English Spelling Society explains reasons for spelling irregularities and offers suggestions for teaching spelling.

A great organization and site for workshops around the Bay Area.

Great go to chart for teaching fluency in the classroom. Includes links to other sources.

Students don't come to us as blank slates. Our job as teachers is to anticipate when faulty mental models are likely to be in play when a student is having trouble and to help them correct the misconceptions they have built in their minds around academic concepts.

Website with ideas about the Daily 5 and how to teach them.

Dolphin Baby teaches students about the make-up of dolphins especially how they are mammals because they give live birth to their babies

Chpt. 12: Global and Multicultural literature for Young Adults : This chapter concerns young adult literature that involves or allows for a focus on the experience of social and cultural difference and diversity, locally, nationally, and most importantly globally. In the past we might have called this multicultural literature, or possibly international or world literature, but we prefer the more inclusive and comprehensive term global literature.

This article talks about mentoring programs where adults bring animals into the classroom and the student reads to the animal. Animals are comforting and non-judgemental and reading to an animal can improve fluency and reading ability by taking the focus of the child and putting focus on reading to and teaching the animal.

This is a great step by step guide to teaching the daily 5. I really like how it shows what to do with students and how to introduce new subjects.

List of ten tools and classroom strategies to improve fluency from a teacher and resource author.