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Resources for gifted students in all subjects

Welcome to the Nieman Enhanced Learning Center Blog. Students will have the opportunity to use their blog to write stories and respond to reflection questions. Parents and teachers, be sure to check in often to see how your students are progressing in their writing.

SupportBlogging! has been set up to provide an opportunity for students, teachers, administrators, parents, and others to help promote an understanding of the benefits of educational blogging.

list of free video and audio podcasts from National Geographic

Fifth grade project using Sketchup and Google Earth

The Lexile Framework for Reading is a scientific approach to reading measurement that matches readers to text. The Lexile Framework measures both reader ability and text difficulty on the same scale, called the Lexile scale. This approach allows educators to manage reading comprehension and encourage reader progress using Lexile measures and a broad range of Lexile products, tools and services. Lots of online tools

Search for lesson plans by grade cluster, literacy strand, and literacy engagement. Lessons include student worksheets, online interactive tools, and links to web resources.

Book titles by writing trait: voice, ideas, organization,word choice, sentency fluency, conventions, presentation.

Thirty-three page pdf guide of various writing prompts organized by grade clusters to help students on state writing assesments.

6 1 Trait® Writing (Dimensions fo Writing) The best prompts are the ones that spark a personal connection between the writer and their ideas. Provided here are some generic writing prompts to get you started, but you will also find some tips on how to write your own prompts. These self-written prompts will offer better starting blocks for your students than the generic prompts because they spring from the immediacy of their lives. Includes prompts for narrative, expository, and persuasive.

NWREL has compiled this vast array of lesson plans that any teacher for any grade level will find useful. Organized around the 6 +traits of writing (similar to the Dimensions of Writing). Search by trait and and grade level.

This project is meant to take a bit of the mystery out of mystery writing. Classes who register are invited to submit short "Two-Minute Mysteries" similar to the ones authored by Donald Sobol. They will challenge others to exert their sleuthing skills to solve them. MUST REGISTER by Nov-Dec 2006 . Work beging week of January 8th. Lasts 2 weeks

Firth grade class blog for all subjects

4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.

New site with downloadable resources for differentiation.

Welcome to educators everywhere. This is the first UK directory and the best website to find podcasts for educational use from 300 podcast channels - ideal for activities with children, young people and educational professionals.

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Interactive and engaging portal for K-12. Choose your school level and browse the available activities for differentiation.

From the Read Write Think Lesson collection, a list of different types of book reports across grade levels appropriate for differentiation.

Blue Web'n is an online library of 2035 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can also browse by broad subject area (Content Areas) or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). See "About this Site" for a scoring rubric and answers to other burning questions!

A resource for teachers, literacy organisations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning.

Learn about web-based collaboration through a variety of web-based tools in this presentation. Although aimed at administrators, teachers will benefit from this information and how they can use these tools in various contexts.

Yotophoto is the first internet search engine for finding free-to-use photographs and images. you can even search by color scheme. Now indexing well over a quarter million Creative Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and various other 'copyleft' images.