English

Reading A-Z: Language Art Activities and Lesson Plans

Best Language Site for Grades 1-2 and even 3

• Carl's Corner This may be all you need for English lessons! Amazing!

Elementary English Site (K-6) 

• TheTeachersCorner

• TimelessTeacherStuff (mostly 4th - 6th grade) great Reader's Theater scripts.

• A Rhyme A Week - Teach phonological awareness with a rhyme a week.

Language Arts for All Grades

• Joanne's Links Very complete collection of English Activities.

• BiblioCat Collections of lesson, units, activities for books for K-12

• Awesome Library Awesome! Truly Awesome!

Story Sources and Reader's Theater Sites

• Story-Lovers World Scroll down through every subject that you can imagine

• Children's Storybooks Online Stories for children of all ages.

•   Tale spinners for children   Audio Tales of favorite stories. Great for handwriting seatwork or quiet time. Connect books, reader's theater, and audio tales for thematic unit.

• PBSkids Reader's Theater Scripts PLUS Shadow Puppet Play.

• Reader's Theater Editions  Scripts/books: Enchanted Storks of Baghdad is fun!

• ScriptsForSchools Some free scripts, some cost money.

• PBSkids video stories.

Literature

Looking for a good book to use during your lesson? Here are some great sites to help you find titles that work for different concepts. Start your search with one of these searchable databases of children's books. Enter a keyword and see what comes up. (Be careful entering keywords in the first database, as you are limited to 10 characters!)

Children's Picture Book Database

• Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

Database of Award Winning Children's Literature

• Click here to go to the database website 

Recommended by Dr. Eman Zaki:

For Sight boards, Sight phrases, Sight words, Sight work worksheets, Sight Word Lists

• Dolch Sight Words

Web Sites for Phonological Awareness and Reading Books

• Kizclub

• Starfall Store (Poetry readings and much more)

• TimelessTeacherStuff   (mostly 4th - 6th grade) great Reader's Theater scripts

• A Rhyme A Week - Teach phonological awareness with a rhyme a week.

 Rhyming Dictionaries

• WriteExpress - Online Rhyming Dictionary

• Sadlier-Oxford

• Fractured Texas Tales!

• Substitute an Arabic-English book such as We're Going on a Bear Hunt,

• ESL Nature lesson.

• Sharing ideas & Journals 3-5 lesson.

• Science & Poetry 3-5 level lesson.

For higher level thinking

• Lesson Plans
  
• Free Interactive Whiteboard Resources

Recommended by Dr. Gary Moorman

• AmericanReadingForum

Literature Circle Resource from the SEC Website  

Literature Circles...A strategy Worth Trying

A Literature Circle is e level. Each member of a circle is assigned a role which helps guide the group in a discussion of the title they are all reading. Literature Circles provide an opportunity for students to control their own learning; to share thoughts, concerns and their understanding of the events of the novel. These Web sites explain literature circles, identify the role of each member of the group and guide the teacher in how to implement the technique in the

Literature Circles.com

Welcome to LiteratureCircles.com, a web resource for educators using or interested in student-led book discussion groups. Our goal is to support conversation and idea-sharing among people who are exploring this important "best practice" strategy.

Literature Circles Resource Center

The Literature Circles Resource Center is designed to support teachers as they plan and use literature circles in their elementary and middle school

Discussion Groups and Literature Circles

What is a discussion group or literature circle?
During literature circles, students meet in small groups to discuss, respond, and reflect on their reading. The teacher or students facilitate the discussion, and as students progress through the primary grades, they 

The Alphabet is Historic

• EDSITEment THREE lesson introduction to a Alphabet Unit

Improve your English and Maths

• Skillswise

Phonics Forest

Learn to read phonics "Youtube"