This site offers tons of activitives concerning all areas of curriculum. Songs, games, and books offer great resources for teachers.
I love the printable Letter Vests under "activities" and the "My Word! A WORD Cookbook" looks interesting.
Printable "office" you can make for students. Includes charts of items students may need help with (alphabet chart, colors, money, etc.) that you make into a book for students.
Includes links to printable booklets for shared and guided reading. Offers materials to expand teacher shared reading (lessons, printables, games, etc.)
I love these because students can make silly sentences (The monster kissed the dinosaur.) Cards include nouns, adjectives, helpers, punctuation, etc. I have printed the cards in color and laminated them so that they will hopefully last. They have other links on this site for me cards in a farm theme.
Cybraryman has a list of 70 Diigo social bookmark sites created by educators for educators. You could probably spend a lifetime here, but you'd learn a lot more than randomly search the internet or googling.
Have you thought about using Twitter in your classroom, with your students, to interest them in writing, communicating, the world? Why not? Check out these many resources to better understand Twitter and its education and communication potential.
Book Adventure was created and is maintained by Sylvan Learning. This is a great resource for reading motivation for kids in grades k-8. Kids can create their own book lists from over 7000 titles and can take quizzes on the books they have read.
This a a great resource! Reading A-Z offers thousands of printable teacher materials to teach leveled reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, alphabet, and vocabulary. The material on the website does have a cost; however, it does offer free samples to look at.
This resource deals with storytelling in the classroom and gives examples of why storytelling is good for the classroom. It also includes lesson plans and activities to help guide you through storytelling in the classroom.
Great resource for book reviews and has a section for author spotlights which gives information about a certain author. Many to choose from. This website also has e-books to purchase and view.
This website not only offers a large collection of stories online, but users can also download the audio version for free and burn them to a CD. Choices include a huge assortment of fairy tales, classics and original stories. Although this is a wonderful service, children are unable to interact with the stories since it is strictly a reading site.
This site has read aloud stories, songs, and other activities. There is a subscription fee for this website, but there are many resources for nonsubscription users.