Language+Arts+Web+Sites

Jason McCoy – One of my goals this year is to collect useful online literacy links to make available for our classroom teachers and students. If you have a good website, please add it to the “useful links” section of this Wiki or email it to me.

Please only consider websites that have little or no advertisements, and are high quality. Let me know if you find something good that could be shared with other Elementary school Language Arts teachers in our school district.


 * Teacher resources **

[] //Online teacher community with blogs, chats, resources and lessons.//

[] //This 501(c)(3) organization was founded to promote literacy in young children, especially children between the ages of 2 through 8, who might not have books at home.//

[] //This online writing workshop resource has lots of free materials. We also purchased a DVD set with their videos for this workshop. This is has authors filmed where they work, discussing how they write. Directions to sign-up can also be found on this Wiki.//

[] //Building a community of learners, a professional development workshop for teachers.//

[] //Free Music Online.// [] //Rigor Relevance and Relationships (Dr. Willard Daggett) – The// //International// //Center// //for Leadership in Education. //



**SMART Board Lessons and Activites **
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 * TEKS Standards – Correlated Lessons for Language Arts**
 * Description: ** //Use the drop down menus to select a grade level and find pre-made Language Arts lesson correlated to the TEKS. You can preview the lesson, and then download to use with your SMART Board or Smart Notebook.//
 * TEKS Standards – Correlated Lessons for Language Arts **
 * Description: ** //Similar to the site above, you use the drop down menus to select a grade level and find pre-made Language Arts lesson correlated to the TEKS. You can preview the lesson, and then download to use with your SMART Board or Smart Notebook.//
 * Elementary Smart Lessons for Language Arts **
 * Description: **// Ready made Language Arts activates that are organized by title, grade and target area. //
 * Instructional Technology “ **** Lee’s Summit **** ” **
 * Description: **// Extensive anthology of Smart Board resource; including interactive websites that work well on the Smart Board, Pre-Made Smart Notebook activities, and training tutorials. This is not Language Arts specific, but very thorough!   //