Explore how technology can be a helpful tool that enhances and supports students' performance with their writing. Below you will see technology listed with the suggested grade level posted next to the title. The grade levels are separated in three groups: primary (K-2 grades), intermediate (3-5 grades), and secondary (6-12 grades).
"National PTA® created the guides for grades K-8 and two for grades 9-12 (one for English language arts/literacy and one for mathematics).
The Guide includes:
Key items that children should be learning in English language arts and mathematics in each grade, once the standards are fully implemented.
Activities that parents can do at home to support their child's learning.
Methods for helping parents build stronger relationships with their child's teacher.
Tips for planning for college and career (high school only)."
These guides are available in English & Spanish to help parents understand the transition to the Common Core: what it means for their children and how to help at home.
"iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. iRubric School-Edition empowers schools with an easy-to-use system for monitoring student learning outcomes and aligning with standards.
Click. Click. Done. Scoring rubrics cannot be made any easier. Just pull up a rubric from the gradebook, click, click, and you're done. Rubric scores are automatically adjusted to the coursework grading scale and posted on the gradebook. All you have to do next is to press [save]. Students get a copy of the scored rubric securely... no more paperwork, no more calculations and no more confusion.
Finally, spend more time teaching and less time grading. Only with iRubric.
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"Look directly below this blog post to see my blog roll consisting of fifth-grade focused blogs - all in one place! The list below will update several times a day, so please check back regularly to see all the newest teaching ideas just for you!
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Thousands of educators participated in efforts to refresh the NETS. ISTE thought it would be valuable to tap that enthusiasm, experience, and knowledge again to develop implementation resources for the NETS*S! This page is dedicated to educators who want to develop and share exemplary lesson plans.
ISTE is posting pdfs of the lesson plans that you submit by grade level. Please use the navigation bar to view submitted lesson plans.
NEW! Educators are beginning to submit NETS-aligned lesson plans. They are pdfs in the Grade Level pages. See below for instructions for submitting your own lessons!
"Purpose: The units and related materials linked below are available for any elementary teacher or library media specialist to use, share, or adapt in order to integrate information literacy skills with the instruction of classroom content. As part of the flexibly-scheduled information literacy curriculum at Ephrata Area, integrated units should exhibit the following characteristics.
1. Development of the unit is collaboratively planned by a classroom teacher and a librarian.
2. Instruction is shared by the teacher and librarian.
3. Assessment both of the products and the process of research is shared by the teacher and librarian.
4. Students learn both classroom subject content along with imbedded information literacy skills.
5. Grades become part of the student's grade for the subject area being studied and are recorded by the teacher.
The following units have been submitted by the elementary school library media specialists of the Ephrata Area School District. "
Math, science, world language, and geography test activities for students and teachers of all grade levels. Quizzes and tests can be browsed by topics, need a free account to create.
Easy to read: TTJunior.com offers easy-to-read news stories for 2nd Graders, 3rd Graders and advanced 1st Graders, as well as remediation and ESL for all grades.
Easy to write: Students can post blog comments that teachers review before publication.
Click below to sign up. It's fast, easy and free!
"Letter P.A.L.S. was created specifically to motivate students to practice reading effortlessly and support teachers' efforts of ensuring that every student reads proficiently by 4th Grade. Letter P.A.L.S. is perfect for Block Reading /SSR Time, Before/After School and/or at Home use. "
"This workspace was created for educators to share and categorize livebinders by subject, grade-level, and whatever else makes sense. Please feel free to add binders, pages, and new sections." General topics include: web 2.0, special needs, tutorials, ePortfolios, STEM projects, and more.
Provides free math worksheets, free math games, grammar quizzes and free phonics worksheets and games. Worksheets and games are organized by grades and topics. These printable math and phonics worksheets are auto generated.