Great Sites for Teachers

Books Online
International Children's Digital Library - Complete books online for you and your students.

Balanced Literacy

READING LADY - Lots of Great Resources and Information from Reading Lady.com for Charts go to Comprehension link.

RIGBY - For information about what Balanced Literacy is by Rigby, try this link:

www.rigby.com/classroom/balancedlit.htm


For complete lesson plans, try this link:

http://www.rigby.com/teachers/lessons/register.asp
You will need to register, but the lesson plans are really good.

If you would like to explore the whole site, try this link:

www.rigby.com
 

OTHER LANGUAGE ARTS LINKS

Literature Circles Resource Center
http://fac-staff.seattleu.edu/kschlnoe/LitCircles

Introduction to Literature Circles
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/mla/circle/intro.html

In the Archives at http://teachers.net/archive scroll to the Focus
Sessions section for a live session transcript:

Click here: Literature Circles Resource Center

Teacher's First The American Literature collection  
C-Span has created a American Writers site that provides a great collection of biographical and critical information on dozens of American writers from the seventeenth century to the present.  This is a great tool to use for a study of either literature or writing. 

Vandergrift's Special Interest Page - A thought provoking approach to children's lit with links to many interesting sites from Professor Vandergrift of Rutger's University.

Language and Spelling - A great source for word histories is The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day (free e-mail list). TLK also has a Cool Fact of the Day and, soon, Today in History e-mail lists. To Subscribe.

Language Arts Collection Page - Goodies galore!