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Abcteach: Book Units: Vocabulary Enrichment
[Free Registration/Login Required] Help to select units of books for student reading that will work to build student vocabulary. Some authors are Caldecott and Newberry winners from the early 20's until 2007. Also included are some...
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Civil Rights Movement 1955 1965: Mississippi & Freedom Summer
Take a look at Mississippi in the early 1960s to understand why the focus of African American voter registration targeted that state. Read about the organization and implementation of the Mississippi Summer Project in 1964. See also the...
Starfall
Starfall: Folk Tales
Five traditional folk tales for early readers to listen to online. The vocabulary for each story is posted below it.
Axelson Academy
Axelson Academy:types of Texts
This professional resource will help teachers understand the different types of texts that early childhood students need to know.
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Himama: Early Childhood Education Blog: Creative Expression Activities
Being able to communicate social-emotional learning visually or through movement, sound and words is not only an essential developmental skill, but it can also be a lot of fun for preschoolers. These creative expression activities for...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabet Matching
This is a fun educational activity where children must match letter sounds to beginning word sounds. All letters and words are sounded out for children as they play the game.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Teaching Blending
How do you teach your students to develop a blending ability through phonics instruction? This site features information to help get you started in your quest for this goal. According to this article you can begin with rhyming. Come and...
TES Global
Blendspace: Alphabet
A fourteen-part learning module can be used while teaching and reviewing the alphabet. Links include videos, songs, and visuals that will support multiple learning styles of students who are learning the alphabet.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Martha: True Stories
A collection of interactive story activities about topics including the environment, technology, inventions, and measuring. There are four stories about each of the topics. In addition to being able to page through the books, the books...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Choosing the Right Book: Strategies for Beginning Readers
Students make purposeful choices for their reading materials, thinking about their reasons for reading a book and using strategies to match books to their abilities.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Super Why: A L L Rhyming Words Worksheet [Pdf]
Print this worksheet for your students while teaching a rhyming/spelling unit. Student will fill in the beginning sound using picture clues to make a word ending in A-L-L. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Helping Your Child Succeed in School
How can you help your child succeed in school? This article offers some important tips to making success a reality for every student. This is a terrific resource to pass along to parents.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Helping Your Child Succeed in School
How can you help your child succeed in school? This article offers some important tips to making success a reality for every student. This is a terrific resource to pass along to parents.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Assessing Young Children's Progress Appropriately
This article focuses on the critical issue of how to assess your young child's progress appropriately. Students, teachers and parents will benefit from this informative article. The article features contact information to learn more...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Benjamin Franklin: Colonial Printer and Journalist
This lesson looks at the early career of Benjamin Franklin and he contributed to the spread of literacy in America, as well as his public service record at that time. Students will examine and analyze primary source documents to...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Arthur: Supermarket Scavenger Hunt
This page features an alphabet scavenger hunt activity for young learners. Using markers, paper and other materials, students will have an opportunity to work on an alphabetical shopping list.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: United States History Map: Colonists
Use these interactive maps to see and read about the colonization of the New World by several European nations. When you are finished looking at the maps, test your skills with the European Colonies Challenge.
PBS
Pbs: Yellow Journalism and Fake News: Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
Learn about the rise of yellow journalism and the fine if occasionally wavering line between sensationalism and fake news in this series of videos from the American Masters film Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People. Learn about the...
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Univ. Of Wisconsin: Rare Editions of "Canterbury Tales"
The libraries of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, have published reproductions of a variety of early printings of "The Canterbury Tales." See selected pages from an early fifteenth-century illustrated edition, from a rare...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Finding a Great Summer Program: A Checklist for Parents
Early and sustained summer learning opportunities lead to higher graduation rates, better preparation for college, and positive effects on children's self-esteem, confidence, and motivation. High-quality summer programs keep students...
abcteach
Abcteach: Picture Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reproducible worksheets with colorful pictures that help early readers to practice their comprehension by choosing the correct sentence.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: Postcards, African Americans Picking Cotton
Though given the right to vote, African-American men and women faced discrimination and racist practices that often prevented them from voting in the early 20th century. Read about some of these practices, and how, for example, the Texas...
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Storyplace: Children's Digital Learning Library
This site is a real find for teachers working with ELL students and all students who want to read great books! The Bookhive presents 100's of reviews of books recommended by librarians associated with the public libraries in Charlotte,...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Helping Struggling Readers
This resource provides information about how to improve reading instruction, especially for those students who need remediation.
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