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This is a literacy website for preschoolers. It has resources for online activities, children's literature, technology, webquests and lessons for the young child.

This is a PBS site about media literacy. It has teacher resources and professional development ideas related to media literacy.

This site offers so much. The teacher activity packs allow teachers to upload lessons, links, and activities to their own websites. There is a PD section with online courses for teachers. Lesson ideas are connected to standards and are available for many different grades.

A site full of lessons that can be categorized by grade levels and topics. With each category there is a "professional development" tab with great instruction and ideas.

The Reading Lady is a great resource to all involved in literacy. It offers ideas for comprehension, author studies, poetry, writing, assessment (including rubrics), reader's theater (one of my favorite things, and even a blog. These are very user friendly ideas and lessons.

This site is devoted to literacy education. Their goal is to reach children to share the love of reading and writing. The site includes seminars, webinars, video conferences, blogs, and podcasts. This site would be helpful to any teacher devoted to teaching reading and writing.

This is a professional development site for educators and librarians. There are video collections, technology tools, higher education learning and lots of great development resources. There are 4 main areas: Technology and Learning, Internet Resources, Libraries and Literacy and Technology Tools.

This site is a list of internet resources that help classroom teachers. There are resources on classroom management, curriculum, teacher/parent/student relationships, professional organizations, literacy and much more!

Sites that help classroom teachers. This is a great site with sites that help classroom teachers. The sites are catagrized by best practices, critical thinking and management, discipline and classroom management, free online workshops, parent/teacher relationships, and and video clips of technology use.

aMap is short for 'argument map'. The idea's very simple - to get more people arguing by mapping out complex debates in a simple visual format. At its heart, aMap is about helping people get to grips with complex (or otherwise) issues and get people thinking. aMaps come in two different formats: Printed pocket-sized aMaps, which you can buy on the eMaps website Interactive personalised aMaps, which you can make on the eMaps website The underlying structuring of aMaps is based around "informal logic" - this is the logic people use to argue in everyday life. Informal logic has a four-tiered structure: - Your position (I think . . .) - what you think over all - Propositions (Because . . .) - reasons that support your position - Arguments (As . . .) - supporting arguments that back up each of your propositions - Evidence (Supported by . . .) - supporting evidence to back up your arguments Although aMaps can be used just for fun, to help students improve and/or develop their reasoning and critical thinking in their essay writing and verbal communication.

Quick, easy and effective elementary teacher resources. Teaching tools, materials, podcasts, lesson plans, literacy centers, curriculum and many many more.