Pinterest is one of my favorite sites. I have come across so many great ideas for lessons and activities! I am about to look up reading fluency games for Teaching Reading and Integrated Language Arts.
I used this website when I was doing enrichment activities with a 5th grade student. He really loved some of the activities that we did. I found some fun too!
These are a ton of one page activities from Bill Nye the Science Guy's website that really provide accurate visuals as a foundation for elementary school students. I actually remember doing a few in my second grade class.
This website has many many pages of interactive activities and lessons. Students can study story elements, idioms, pronunciations, reading, spelling, play games, all sorts of things. When you have a day with a CoW, or a day in a lab, you can have the students pick a lesson from a list, or you can print out a page and use it as a sponge activity.
I found this website very helpful in my teaching science class. This site incorporates ways to get students out side and learn from the outdoors. It lists different learning activities students can do at home, or with friends to extend the learning of science into home life as well.
I like this site because I am attempting to learn the common core standards and this site does a good job of showing me how to relate standards to activities.
This article was excerpted from Easy Ways to Reach & Teach English Language Learners by Valerie Schiffer Danoff. These strategies are part good thinking and part best practices. They work for ELLs and EO students because they activate prior knowledge, encourage students to work together, and provide sensible foundations for teaching and learning in a classroom setting.
