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This is the 2 sisters website - the developers of the daily 5 and cafe. I use this website frequently in my classroom for planning my language arts lesson in 5th grade.

includes/content/subnav.asp NOINDEX "Reading Recovery is the best evidence yet of the direct link between good design and education excellence."- K.G. Wilson and B. Daviss GoalThe goal of Reading Recovery is to dramatically reduce the number of first-grade students who have extreme difficulty learning to read and write and to reduce the cost of these learners to educational systems. What Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one tutoring for low-achieving first graders.

From Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology Kristi Gerig, Jan Perry, and Leanette Spencer The University of Georgia Review of Reading Recovery Eric is a first grade student at Camelot Elementary, a large school that serves a diverse population of 1200 students.

This teacher has some interesting thoughts about our ethics in teaching science. How we can make things more interesting and not concentrate so much on pencil, paper and grades

ideas for use with Reading Street

This page offers all grade levels the opportunity to find worksheets based on their topic of discussion for lanugage arts.

These are apps for the ipad that categorized according to grade level.

I am going to offer a unit on the Civil War and its impact on World History in my World History class (mostly 10th graders) for the first time. They quit teaching about the Civil War in US History that students take as juniors in our district, and I think they need more than what they got in 7th grade. Just saying! I think this blog I added to my RSS will be a great help.

It would also help if I spelled Technology correctly (:

Great resource for ipad apps according to grade level or subject

A resource provided by Discovery Education to guide students and provide Search Engine help to students of all grades.

Interesting idea, not sure how teachers would embrace this

I spend lots of time trialling new web 2.0 tools with my students, for all different learning purposes. My grade and I often have a conversation that goes a little something like this: Me: I have placed the link to -- on our blog for you to open and use.

One of my favorite sites is DisccoveryEducation.com that I use daily in the classroom. Discovery Education provides a wealth of classroom resources for all grade levels on various subject areas. I use this website daily in high school when teaching Reading, Science, and U.S. History classes.

I love all the free, quality resources on the Discovery Education site. Whenever I have time, I browse this site for newly added resources.

Covers lesson plans, tech tips, great websites to integrate technology into your curriculum, current trends in tech ed and technology standards.

Every year, I have 4th grade students compare handwriting speed to keyboarding speed. We run it like an experiment. we discuss the evidence-pros and cons we develop a hypothesis we test the hypothesis (with a series of four tests) we revise if necessary I wanted to test some of the reasons students come up with ...

A good way to incorporate current events and English elements into the social studies classroom

Great current events ideas.

By tying the lessons of history to the issues of the day, Deirdra Grode, a seventh-and eighth-grade social studies and language arts teacher at Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey, is teaching her students to be analytical and socially aware.

Today's topic again focuses on another valuable teacher freebie, and free is in my price range.How about you? Today's post gives each of us a rare professional development opportunity - learning from other teachers who teach the same curriculum as you.Think about it.Wouldn't the idea of having just a first grade teacher conference be phenomenal?How about a drama teacher conference?Or one for middle school English teachers?What sort of conversations would you have?What resources would you share?

Career Aware Download individual leaflets (one per each of 16 career clusters) in Adobe .pdf format* from South Dakota Career Aware (packet of career awareness classroom activities designed for students in grades three through five).