For Teachers

WEBSITES OF INTEREST

    General

• Learning A-Z

• Reading Eggs

• Reading Rockets

• PBS: Raising Readers

• Spelling City

• Starfall

• Letter Sounds

• Rhyming 

• Letter Recognition 

• Putting Words Together 

• Create a Flip Book

• Reading Graphic Organizers & Printables

• Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension

• Teacher Book Wizard: Create Book Lists, Leveled Book Searches, & More!

• Teaching That Makes Sense

• ThinkfinityNY and Beyond NYS Alignment Pages

• Lakeshore AWARD MAKER

• Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Reader Teacher Guides

    Especially for Middle/High School ELA Teachers

• Just for the Kids-New York

• Albany Institute for Research in Education

• Center on English Learning & Achievement

• Common Core State Standards Initiative

    SMART Board Activities

• Story Starters

• Great Sites 1-3

    Great Classroom Websites

• Mrs. Bunyi's Class

• Pier 13

• Ms. Jensen's Class Website

• Teaching That Makes Sense

• TEAMWORK Themed Class

DOCUMENTS

    General

• 2010/2011 UPK-6 Reading & Writing Curriculum Planning

• Comprehension Rubric

• Reading Strategies

• Comprehension Strategies That Enhance Literacy

• NYS Common Core Standards for ELA and Literacy

• NYS PreKindergarten Learning Standards

• Fountas & Pinnell General Criteria for Instructional, Independent, & Hard Reading

• Instructional Level Expectations for Reading
• Running Record Conversion Tables

• The State of Writing Instruction in America’s Schools:
  What Existing Data Tell Us
• Uncommonly Successful ELA Programs Share Common Instructional Features (summary)
• Guidelines for Teaching MS & HS Students to Read & Write Well 6 Features of Effective Instruction (full document)
• Effective literature instruction develops thinking skills
• Improving Literary Understanding Through Classroom Conversations
• What Makes Middle Schools Work-Best Practices
• What Is Evidence-Based Reading Instruction?

• Six Traits Primary Poster Set

• Six Traits Intermediate Poster Set

• Individual Six Traits Posters: Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice, & Conventions

• Reading & Writing Poster Pack

• InterActive Six Trait Writing Process Website

• Writer's Workshop & Six Traits