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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.

Printable work sheets for students' to use

A great sight for student worksheets across all content areas!

This website provides news articles written for students in grades 2-8. Articles are about current events in news, entertainment, science technology-environment-animals-health, arts, sports and politics. These articles are great resources for students to read with educators in the classroom and parents at home.

Daily news articles written at multiple levels of complexity in order to provide a text that is accessible to students with ranges of abilities. Just click the appropriate Lexile on the right side of the page. There is an optional quiz for each article, and an ability to assign articles and track activity for groups of students.

Mighty Books contain animated story books, songs, sing a longs and games. There are also activities to help students practice their letters and writing new words. Finally, there are also resources for teachers and parents to access in assisting with comprehension and reading.

This website has various ebooks for students to read and listen to. These ebooks have animation and music to make reading more enjoyable.

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

Sometimes when doing a retell of a narrative or expository text, , a student will make errors. These errors can lend insight to their reading behaviors. This article discusses this.

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.

This site has tons of fun art activities to do with students. I personally love the step by step drawing tutorials/videos.

Documentary Series displaying a variety of social movements involving Mexican-Americans (Chicanos) in a variety of settings such as the farm worker movement and the student walkouts.

Great shared writing activity/ outline for all grade levels within SDC and beyond.

I found this word work print and go activity packet that may be useful for my students during centers.

Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids, aligned with state standards. This is an incredible website for teachers, parents and students alike. I have utilized it numerous times in various capacities. It has lots of great features, but the monthly subscription is also very affordable.

NWP teacher-leaders study and share effective practices that enhance student writing and learning, work collaboratively with other educators, design resources, and take on new roles in effecting positive change.