| Websites for Teachers & Students |
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| Discovery School |
Discovery School includes lesson plans and teaching tools. |
| Teach-nology |
**Please note: This website cannot be accessed from within the district but works fine from home.**
Teachnology.com offers teachers FREE access to 27,000+ lesson plans, 6,350+ printable worksheets, rubrics, educational games, teaching tips, advice, education news, teacher downloads, web quests, 256,000+ reviewed web sites and teacher tools for creating exciting classroom instruction. |
| School Express |
The free part of School Express allows access to 9000+ worksheets, weekly activity pages, sites for teachers, funtime activities, puzzlemaking, online math, and much more. |
| ABC Teach |
ABC Teach includes 5000+ free printable pages and worksheets. You can also use tools to create word walls, word searches, crossword puzzles, and math worksheets. |
| Kiddy House Teacher's Corner |
In Kiddy House's Teachers Corner, you will find resources, free worksheets, clipart, lesson plans, internet lessons, crafts, teacher tools, online education and more. |
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| Starfall |
Reading/Language Arts: Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. |
| The Literacy Center |
The Literacy Center aims to provide safe learning activities for parents and teachers to share with young children. It follows a modified Montessori approach to teaching reading. As a pre and early reading curriculum, it assumes that each online lesson will be supported by appropriate offline instruction, either at home or in school. |
| BBC |
This site comes from the United Kingdom. There are lots of games to play that are related to phonics. Teachers, just make sure that the sound is the same with our accent! |
| Fun Brain |
Fun Brain has lots of great educational games for kids in math, language arts, science, history, music, geography, art, technology, and physical education. The site is great, but make sure you supervise students because they find their way to arcade games pretty quickly! |
| National Zoo in Washington D.C. |
Learn about animals and even view them live through the web cams at this zoo in our nation's capitol! |
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| Smithsonian Institute for Kids |
This site is filled with fun facts about everything-- from space suits to NASCAR to Kermit the Frog and other real animals. |
| BrainPop |
View entertaining animated movies on topics from many curricular areas. There are also some activities and quizes related to the movie content. (This is a subscription based service.) |
| BrainPop Jr. |
Just like BrainPop, but for younger kids! (This is a subscription based service.) |
| BrainPop Spanish |
Just like BrainPop, but in Spanish! (This is a subscription based service.) |
| Plato Learning Web Software |
This subscription based service is expensive but VERY cool! |
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| Connie Grod's Helpful Websites |
District 205's Connie Grod lists a number of favorite websites. Some sites are for teachers and some are for students. |
| Hubbard's Cupboard |
This website, recommended by a first grade teacher at Welsh, targets early childhood teachers and parents. |
| Carl's Corner |
Find great ideas for teaching from this Reading Recovery trained teacher's site. |
| Teaching Books |
The Rockford Public Schools has a license to this site. Access hundreds of resources, including online book guides, "meet the author" moview, reader's theater scripts, and more. Please email Sue Brock at brocks@rps205.com if you are asked for a password. |
| Internet for Classrooms |
Teachers in Rockford are raving about this website which consists of lots of links to other great sites! It has links for students and teachers.
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| Connie Grod's Helpful Websites |
District 205's Connie Grod lists a number of favorite websites. Some sites are for teachers and some are for students. |
| The World of Brian P. Cleary |
This author's site is so cool! Check out the word of the day, poem of the week, and much, much more! |
| Internet for Classrooms |
Teachers in Rockford are raving about this website which consists of lots of links to other great sites! It has links for students and teachers.
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| PBS: Between the Lions |
The award-winning Between the Lions Web site offers tons of expert-approved games, stories, video clips, and activities—all aimed at reinforcing the literacy mission of the series. |
| PBS: Word Girl |
WordGirl is a new animated series that follows the every day life and superhero adventures of “WordGirl” as she fights crime and enriches vocabulary usage, all in a day’s work. Explore the world of "Wordgirl!" |
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| Scholastic's Teacher Book Wizard |
Use this site to find just the right books. You can level your books and find books at different reading levels. You can also find booktalks, author info, and lesson plans. |
| Tumblebooks |
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. You must subscribe to Tumblebooks to be able to use their site. |
| Reading is Fundamental |
This is a website with lots of resources for teachers and students. |
| CAST UDL Book Builder |
This site has a "Create Your Own Book" and a "Shared Book Library." |
| Ideas & Activities to Build Vocabulary at About.com |
At this webpage, you can find links to online vocabulary activities for kids, printable vocabulary activities, and vocabulary homework." |
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| RIF Reading Planet |
Students will have a lot of reading fun at this website. |
| Storyline Online |
Listen to actors read childrens books online. Get a list of extension activities for each books. |
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| Vocabulary: Ready-Made Activities |
Check out this site to find vocabulary info and ready-made activities. There are also lots of links to other great sites." |
| Read Write Think.org |
If you don't have much time to check out many sites, make sure that you check out THIS one! ReadWriteThink, established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation. NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content. |
| Teacher Tap |
At this site you can explore online reading including interactive stories, articles, and books. Involve readers in writing stories including adding to stories, writing new endings, creating illustrations, and facilitating discussions. |
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