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Lesson Plans: PreK-2 | 3 - 5 | 6 - 8 | 9 - 12

• General Resources
• Writing Centers
  

General Resources

• Bartlett Quotations
  http://www.bartleby.com/100/
  Over 11,000 quotations, the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905 keeps most of his original work intact.
  
  
• Beacon Learning Center
  http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/
  Beacon Learning Center provided standards based lesson plans. Lesson plans can be located based on specific SSS Benchmarks taught.BLC also provided web space for teachers.
  
  
• Bedtime Stories
  http://the-office.com/bedtime-story/
  Access to many published and unpublished short stories for children ages 6 and up. Young students may need assistance getting to the stories but then they can work independently.
  
  
• Biography.com
  http://www.biography.com/search/index.htmliography
  Biography search includes over 25,000 personalities from the past and present. Search by full, first or last name.
  
  
• Blue Web'N
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
  Access to Blue Web'n is an online library of 1200+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format and has many language arts lessons for all grades.
  
  
• byGosh.com
  http://www.bygosh.com/index.html
  Children's stories online which include illustrated classics, short stories, 101 best loved poems, and more.
  
  
• Carol Hurst.Com
  http://www.carolhurst.com/
  Reviews of great books for kids, ideas for how to use them in the classroom. Collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
  
  
• Children's Literature and Language Arts Resources
  http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.htm
  Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) Children's Literature and Language Arts index page. This page focuses on children's literature in education. Teachers, library media professionals, parents and students will find information on children's literature and associated language arts here.
  
  
• The Children's Literature Web Guide
  http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
  The Children's Literature Web Guide is a categorize collection of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. The web site contains information on authors, discussion boards, web resources and tips for teachers.
  
  
• Children's Storybooks Online
  http://www.magickeys.com/books/links.html
  The links on this page have received Storybooks Award because they have special appeal due to story creativity, specialized content, educational information, fun activities, or are just downright charming.
  
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
  A web site with compiled works of William Shakespeare. The site contains sections on comedy, tragedy, sonnets, and poetry.
  
  
• eThemes
  http://www.emints.org/ethemes/index.shtml
  eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created for educators to use in their classrooms.
  
  
• FCAT 4th Grade Reading
  http://fcit.usf.edu/fcat/default.htm
  FCAT 4th Grade Reading: A Staff Development Tool
  is a program designed to help teachers prepare students
  for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.
  
  
• FCAT 8th Grade Reading
  http://fcit.usf.edu/fcat8r/default.htm
  This program is designed to help teachers prepare students for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This program includes rubric scoring, practice tests, teaching strategies, and related web sites.
  
  
• FCAT 10th Grade Reading
  http://fcit.usf.edu/fcat10r/default.htm
  This program is designed to help teachers prepare students for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This program includes rubric scoring, sample tests, teaching strategies, and related web sites.
  
  
• FCRR - Florida Center for Reading Research
  http://www.fcrr.org/FCRRReports/contents.htm
  The reports are intended to be a source of information about programs that will help teachers, principals, and district personnel in their choice of materials that can be used by skilled teachers to provide effective instruction.
  
  
• Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM): Language Arts
  http://www.thegateway.org/browse/portal_seamarksearch/makesearch?past=subject|http://purl.oclc.org/gem/instance/subject/GEM-S/language_arts|||language%20arts|*
  This site provided by the Department of Education, provides educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial web sites.
  
  
• Gutenburg Project
  http://www.gutenberg.net/
  Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books. Browse by title or author.
  
  
• Humanities Text Initiative
  http://www.hti.umich.edu/
  University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) is an umbrella organization for the creation, delivery, and maintenance of electronic texts, as well as a mechanism for furthering the library community's capabilities in the area of online text.
  
  
• International Children's Digital Library
  http://www.icdlbooks.org/
  The International Children's Digital Library is a place where kids all over the world can find over 260 digital books from many different countries. It's a place where kids can read as much as they want without having to pay a lot of money or travel very far to find the books.
  
  
• Internet Public Library
  http://www.ipl.org/
  The Internet Public Library provides likes to Subject Collections, Reference Section, Search Tools, Youth Resources Special Collections and Reading Room. In the Reading Room you will finds books, magazines and newspapers from every state and around the world.
  
  
• Just Read Now
  http://www.justreadnow.com/
  The real value of reading lies in its use. In Content Area classrooms, a potentially powerful use of reading is to pursue and acquire understanding about the world through the study of texts. Reading to learn is what Content Area Reading is all about. The written word can bring the world into focus for students!
  
  
• Literature.org
  http://www.literature.org/
  Access and read books on-line. Search for copyright free books by author.
  
  
• The Jack London Collection
  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/
  Jack London is best known for his books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf, and a few short stories, such as "To Build a Fire" and "The White Silence." For upper Elementary, Middle School age.
  
  
• Lulu Publishing
  http://www.lulu.com/author/create.php
  A web based resource to publish and sell books. Upload your files, determine the amount of profit per book, and publish. Lulu will print and ship you book.
  
  
• Mac Beth an in depth analysis
  http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/
  site_sum_outside.html?tname=2888&url=2888/
  An in depth analysis of Mac Beth, is one of over 4000 student created entries in our Library.
  
  
• Marcopolo Education
  http://www.marcopolo-education.org/
  MarcoPolo provides quality, standards-based Internet content and lesson plans for K-12 teachers and students.
  
  
• NCITed Reading Matrix
  http://www.nationaltechcenter.org/matrix/default.asp
  To search the matrix database of products and evidence select one of the six purposes of technology that support reading for students with reading disabilities.
  
  
• The Newbery Classroom
  http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mjoseph/newbery.html
  There are many interesting and dynamic Web pages for children's and young adult literature. Organized by educators, librarians, commercial organizations, private organizations students, and others interested in aspects of our work, they supply valuable and sometimes unique access to events of concern to the broad community of children's literature users--including children.
  
  
• Open Court Resources
  http://www.opencourtresources.com
  A collection of free pre-K-6 Open Court Resources available on the internet. The site features literally hundreds of resources including powerpoints, unit opener ideas, chants, lesson plans, independent work time activities, links, sight word teaching systems, picture files, movies, the Open Court Discussion Board, and more.
  
  
• Purdue Online Writing Lab
  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
  Handouts, materials, and resources for students and teachers, including: general writing concerns, English as a second language, grammar, spelling, and punctuation, research documenting sources, and professional writing.
  
  
• Reading Help for Kids
  http://math-and-reading-help-for-kids.org/
  Reading Help for Kids is a comprehensive directory of original articles, tips, and resources to help parents and children make informed decisions about school related topics and issues.
  
  
• ReadPrint
  http://www.readprint.com/
  Website offers free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusias
  
  
• Thinkfinity
  http://www.marcopolo-education.org/
  MarcoPolo provides quality, standards-based Internet content and lesson plans for K-12 teachers and students.
  
• ThinkPort
  http://www.thinkport.org/default.tp
  An independent research firm released data showing that Thinkport's online field trips are helping students read and achieve.
  

• ThinkQuest Library - Books & Literature
  http://www.thinkquest.org/library/cat_show.html?cat_id=2
  Created by Students, the ThinkQuest Library provides innovative learning resources for students of all ages on a wide range of educational topics.
  
  

Writing Centers

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• Brigham Young University Writing Center
  http://english.byu.edu/writingcenter/
  
  
• Florida Gulf Coast University Writing Center
  http://www.fgcu.edu/cas/english/writingcenter/
  
  
• Florida State University Writing Center
  http://writing.fsu.edu/
  
  
• International Writing Center Association
  http://iwca.syr.edu/
  
  
• Purdue Online Writing Lab
  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
  
  
• University Writing Center UCF
  http://www.uwc.ucf.edu/
  
  
• University of Florida Writing Center
  http://www.at.ufl.edu/r&w/
  
  
• Writing Center USF
  http://english.usf.edu/center/index.aspx
  
  

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May 28, 2007

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