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Comprehensive K-12 Sites
Book Rap
Visit this outstanding location and join a scheduled discussion about a book your class is reading. Better yet, sign up to coordinate a discussion for a book your class will read, so your students can exchange responses with other students.
Carl’s Corner
A website chock full of resources and materials for classroom teachers, reading and resource specialists, speech therapists, parents, and students in the area of language arts. Lots of ideas and downloads for classroom use.
Educational Web Design
This page was created to provide teachers with tools to help them successfully create dynamic Web pages for their students. There are links to sites where you can obtain free graphics, sound files, and animated gifs.
ICYouSee: T Is for Thinking
The Web is overflowing with information. How do you decide what is credible and what is not? This page gives you criteria to begin discriminating between true resources and opinions on the Internet. The page even provides practice examples to help you start developing your discerning Internet eye.
Literacy & Technology
Developed by the Oswego City School District in NY, here is an excellent location to begin your search for literacy resources on the Internet. The site includes links to resources that support the new literacies of the Internet as well as more traditional literacies.
SCORE Cyberguides
A wonderful site for immediate classroom integration of literature experiences with Internet resources. The genius of this site is that any teacher may contribute an envisionment for books and activities with Internet resources that have worked in his or her classroom.
Elementary Sites
Apple Bytes
Susan Silverman strikes again with a collaborative celebration of fall apples. Perfect for a primary grade classroom and a great model for what all of us can do with the Internet in our classroom.
Benjamin Franklin: A Man of Many Talents
Everything you ever wanted to know about the great writer and inventor can be found at this informative site, which includes quizzes, experiments, and a list of Franklin-related links
Buddy’s Bearded Collie Literacy Notebook
Bunny Readers
This is an excellent example of how to connect and collaborate with classrooms around the country. The student illustrations and stories are a treat.
Mrs. Cassidy’s Grade One and Two Webpage
Charlotte’s Web
This delightful site has quizzes, puzzles, and chapter summaries for E.B. White’s story Charlotte’s Web. The site was developed by Mrs. Taverna’s second grade class at Pocantico Hills Elementary School.
Children’s Encyclopedia of Women
An interesting site featuring profiles of many famous women, written by third- and fourth-grade students.
Cinco de Mayo
Explore Hispanic culture through children’s literature, important historical events, music, cultural traditions, and even a cooking adventure and fiesta at the end of the unit.
Cinderella Around the World
Mrs. Corcoran’s Class Virtual Ocean Museum
Creation Stories and Myths
An outstanding resource for explanatory myths from a wide variety of cultures.
A Dance With the Butterflies
Days at Frog & Toad
Mrs. Degenaar’s Classroom
Mrs. Dingman’s Third Grade
Earth Day Groceries Project
A project to encourage other classrooms to decorate paper grocery bags with environmental messages and distribute these to stores for Earth Day.
Edinger House
A blog by Ms. Monica Edinger, fourth-grade teacher.
Fall Into Autumn Project
Fall Is Here! We Love It!
Inspired by Elaine Good’s autumn book, Fall is Here! I Love It!, this collaborative literacy project provides a forum for students to share signs of autumn in their different communities through writings and illustrations.
Mr. Fontanella’s Kindergarten Class
This site is a wonderful resource model for all kindergarten classes. It contains a useful parent page, class news, permission forms, informational articles for parents, as well as a school calendar.
Frosty Readers 2002
Gander Academy’s Theme-Related Resources on the WWW
Nicely organized curriculum resources used at this school organized by topic or theme.
Grade 2K
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
A remarkable location for the study of this important American.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Mr. Leahy’s Class: Greenway Elementary School
This well organized web site does a great job of showcasing students’ work. The site includes links to forms used in the classroom and award-winning projects from past years.
Mrs. Little’s 2nd Grade Website
Loogootee Elementary West
The home page for this school in Indiana, USA with great support for teachers beginning their Internet journeys.
My Town Is Important!
The North Star Navigators
This exciting location takes your children on a journey to discover their own "North Star." Many exciting activities in this very creative curriculum project. Many children have found their own "North Star" with these experiences.
Oh The Places We’ll Go!
Online Autumn
An interactive site filled with original student poems, stories, and graphic organizers about different aspects of autumn. It shows how many teachers can share their students’ work, providing important resources for all our classrooms. A great model!
Read a Book—Write a Poem
Read a Winter Book—Write a Winter Poem
Mr. Roemer’s Fifth Grade Polar Bears
This Web site is a great example of how Web site can be used to build a sense of school community. The site includes several student activities, projects, and educational resources.
Ms. Ross’s First Grade Class
Mr. Sangiuliano and Mrs. Reinald’s Program B Multiage Class
This site highlights the wonderful books on tape social service project. It is a great social service model for other classrooms.
A Series of Unfortunate Collaborations
Mrs. Silverman’s Second Grade Class
This colorful web site is divided into a number of sections including pages about the teacher, the students, their classroom projects, their school, and their favorite educational links.
Spring Into Life
Mrs. Stewart’s Kindergarten Site
Sunnyside School Primary Class
A wonderful classroom Web site that offers detailed information about class projects, photo journals, and many samples of outstanding student work.
That’s What Happens When It’s Spring
The Three R’s of Our Fight For Freedom
Using the theme of the American Revolution, this site is chock-full of creative games, dioramas, slide shows, poetry and pictures, as well as links to interactive games, puzzles and more.
Tunia’s Travels
Follow along with Tunia, a plush ladybug toy, as she travels the world. This site also offers excellent ladybug-related resources, including information on ladybug books, ladybug habitats, and ladybug food, and an invitation to write to Tunia.
Vietnam
A tremendous resource for students and teachers learning about Vietnam. The site includes picture books, quizzes, photos, and excellent teacher resources with Web links.
Whale Tales
Winter Olympics
Middle School Sites
Mrs. DeCosa’s School Web Page
Created for a seventh-grade English class, this site features classroom curricula such as assignments, topics, resource tools, and student work. Of special interest is a parents’ page, with tips to help parents help their children become better students.
Mathprose
Short, but educational, math stories.
Meet the Candidates Webquest
Ms. Smith’s English Page
This classroom website combines a useful mix of fun and information. Featured student articles and topics change monthly. Teachers interested in starting to use technology in their own classroom will find this Web page a true resource.
High School Sites
Barr’s English Class
Need outstanding examples for high school writing composition and English projects? This is the place. Barr’s English Class has excellent links to numerous assignment-related sites for mythology, Shakespeare, and college essays, as well as examples of students’ writing.
Romeo & Juliet WebQuest
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