Captioned Media Program
Free video lending library funded by U.S. Department of Education and administered by the National Association of the Deaf. Videos are "open-captioned", meaning no special decoder needed. Print and online catalog available with over 4000 videos touching a wide variety of topics. Useful for persons with a hearing loss of all ages. Videos are delivered to school or home and may be kept up to one week before returned (postage prepaid).
Discovery School
From the Education Department of the Discovery Channel, this section especially for teachers, provides lots of information including Lesson Plans for K-6.
Education World
A FREE search engine for educational Web sites only. It acts as an information source on the Web with news from USA Today, monthly site reviews and employment listings to keep educators up to date. Also includes original content such as lesson plans, articles written by education experts, and information on how to make the best use of technology in the classroom, so that educators can find ideas at the click of a mouse.
Houghton Mifflin's Reading/Language Arts Center
Resources that include textbook support, Professional Development, Intervention, Author Spotlight, Wacky Web Tales, and Bilingual Resources.
Learning to Read
Resources for Language Arts and Reading Research (i.e.: lesson plans, professional organizations and publications).
Lesson Plans from the Teacher's Desk
A collection of over 100 lesson ideas for Spelling, Writing, English, Reading, and Vocabulary activities currently being utilized in a fifth- or sixth-grade classroom.
Literacy and Technology
A site created to assist teachers, students, parents and others, with the integration of curriculum and the Internet to promote student literacy.
Parent Send Home Activities
Suggestions from Scholastic for at-home activities for art, music, language arts, science, math and social studies.
Professional Development
Current research articles, expert advice, and teacher resources support professional growth in science, mathematics, reading, and language arts. Provided by Houghton Mifflin.
Read! Write! Now: Suggested Reading List
A list of books organized for children from birth to preschool, preschool to 2nd grade, 3rd to 4th grade and 5th & 6th grade.
The Teacher's Corner
Site offering reading lesson plans, activities, classroom help, a book search, and educational news.
TeacherVision.com
Free resources for teachers, and a forum to exchange ideas with other teachers.
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Electronic Text Center
Includes approximately 45,000 on and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 50,000 related images.
The On-Line Books Page
Over 11,000 listings. Provided by John Mark Ockerbloom, a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Designed for education, by educators, AOL@SCHOOL provides students (K-12), teachers and administrators with specific, age-appropriate
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The Premier Online Community for K-8 Educators. This exciting web site provides curriculum bulletin boards, discussion lists, classroom ideas, lesson plans, and links to thousands of educational resources.
Learningpage.com provides free learning materials for the elementary classroom. Printable books, worksheets, activities and lesson plans for preschool, kindergarten, first, second and third grade.
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