This site contains lessons and techniques to use in grades 5-8.  It provides you with ideas how to help students improve reading skills. Although strategies are targets to one content area most of them can be used in several.  This site gives a lot of the same strategies that were given in chapter 5 of our textbook.

This site offers a variety of books to use in science.  It also includes books for math and social studies.  I enjoy using trade books in my classroom for all grades.  My fourth graders love when I read picture story books to them in any subject.  This site is a great way to find books that will fit the needs of concepts you are teaching.

This is a great resource for picture story books that can be integrated into math.  This site primarily lists books for lower el.  There are books that can teach money, counting, graphing, and measurement just to name a few. 

http://www.fcrr.org/

This is a awesome resource for all reading teachers. As far as I know it is primarily for K-5 teachers. If you click "Instructional Materials for Teachers" it gives a plethora of lessons for your students. It provides lessons in fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and phonics. I have used this as a resource and have had great success.

http://www.thedailycafe.com/

I did my book review on The Cafe Book and I believe Elvisa did her's on The Daily 5. This website is a website created by the Two Sisters who wrote both books. There are videos and articles to help implementation. If this is something you are doing in the classroom I highly suggest buying a subscription. It is very helpful in the journey of making The Daily 5 and Cafe successful in your classroom.

I have heard a lot about this book in recent months. The hand selection of books is amazing. I could not imagine doing that for my students. I like a lot of the ideas that you wrote about like the readers notebook and surveys. I am glad I read your review. Now I have more information about it and it sounds pretty inspiring. This will definitly be on my "to read" list! Thank you!

The Café Book is written by The Two Sisters, Joan Moser and Gail Boushey. The book is written in conjunction with The Daily 5, also written by them. The Daily 5 is a management system for a readers workshop style literacy block. The Café Book is the content to go along. Café is centered around the Café Board. Each letter for Café represents a reading strategy, which are also the heading on the board. The four heading are comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanded vocabulary. The idea behind Café is that during the Daily 5 mini lessons the teacher teaches different strategies to go under each heading on the Café board. For example, one of the first Café lessons taught to the students is "Go Back and Reread." This strategy goes under the comprehension heading on the Café Board. This board gives students a reference for all of the different reading strategies that they learn throughout the year. Along with the mini-lessons and Café Board, The Café Book also focuses on strategy groups and reading conferencing. The Two Sisters suggests that rather than meeting with students of the same abilities, meeting with students that are focusing on the same reading strategy. Along with the strategy groups, the teachers meet with individuals during reading conferences. During this time the teacher can ensure that each student is reading just right books and practicing the reading strategy that they are focusing on. I run both The Daily 5 and Café currently in my classroom. I believe both are amazing. Although I have not tried it, I think that Café is most successful when The Daily 5 is also implemented. My students reference the Café board daily. They use the strategies to help them be more successful readers. This year was the first year that I have used The Daily 5 and Café. I have not fully implemented all aspects of Café. I am using the board, but have yet to use strategy groups. I am still grouping my students based on ability

Here is a very helpful link. It talks about all of the ways to teach reading in the elementary classrooms. It describes shared reading, readers theater, and guided reading just to name a few. I found it very helpful and a great resource,

Gill, S.R., & Islam, I. (November 2011) Shared reading goes high-tech. The Reading Teacher 65.3 . Retrieved from Educators Reference Complete.

There is so much emphasis on using technology in the classroom now. It can be overwhelming figuring out how to take what you have been doing in the past and adding a technology aspect to it. This article describes how to best use an interactive white board during shared reading, which is a strategy that is commonly used in the elementary classroom. Shared reading is when a class read a text together, at the same time. They may read a book or a poem in large print, to practice reading. Students may choral read, read in different groupings, or make actions for different parts of the text. Students read the same text multiple times. Through the use of interactive white boards this is now easier than ever. Interactive white boards give education a whole new look. It is easier than ever to display things for the students to see. This article gave multiple examples on how to take shared reading to another level. There are some neat tips in the article.