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another great website for reading resources

Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction. This website has great lesson plans for teaching reading and writing for grades K-12 and strategy guides for teachers.

This is a great website that my methods teacher uses with her class.

This is a great website to get ideas for centers, bulletin board ideas, activities to do with your class etc.

This is a great website to see what other teachers are using in their classes. Mainly activities! (You have to make an account but it is definitely worth it, and search "education" and you will find tons of great stuff!)

This social networking site could be used by educators much the same as Diigo. The one real difference is that Pinterest is a visual space (akin to a pin board) where you can get a sense of the content at a glance and dig deeper based on what you see.

This website has a lot of useful links educators can use to find more information on 21rst Century Skills

This link can be accessed by going to the NH Dept of Ed website. This link provides helpful, comprehensive information regarding the new Smarter Balance test that will be occurring in Spring 2015

another useful rubric creation site

These are some units that these Kansas teachers posted online.

Although, your school or district must set up the service for you, it is free, simply needs an inquiry from an official. I was able to register through my methods district (Pembroke Academy) and believe it's a great tool for teachers to utilize. I can demo the software in class if time, and Bill allows.

The Partnership for Reading offers information about the effective teaching of reading for children, adolescents, and adults, based on the evidence from quality research. The Partnership invites you to explore this site for information on reaseach, principles about reading instruction suggested by the research, and products for parents, teachers, administrators and policy-makers. Thank you Beth Caraccio for her presentation about reading web sites.

This is the site for the standards for The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. To get the full list you have to be a member, but you have access to some materials here. You can also access some of the material for 120 days.

Here you can access via PDF the entire standards jointly written by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Assn.