Aaron
Shepherd's Readers Theatre page
The children's author, Aaron Shepherd, provides a range of
scripts for readers theatre in the classroom, mainly for students
in years 3 to 9. He also provides a brief
run-down of what readers theatre involves. Scripts
can be edited and printed to suit the particular needs of
your students.
Aboriginal
Studies
A particularly useful site with some valuable links including
ones to Yothu Yindi and Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
Biography
Maker
Jamie McKenzie site that takes student through the stages
of writing interesting biographies from Questioning through
to Presentation.
Can
Teach
Canadian teachers’ resource site with lesson plans for
a wide range of curriculum areas. Take the link to English
Language Arts and explore.
The
Center for Critical Thinking
Non-profit site. Teacher resources and suggestions for
re-modelling some traditional types of lessons to encourage
active learning and critical reflection are included.
Classroom
Connect
is valuable for education-related resources, products, information
and support. Their stated mission is to empower teachers to
achieve their goals for students by enhancing the classroom
learning experience. The GRADES section is a huge resource
of carefully selected further links. Very valuable and
should be visited.
Darryl
Cagle's Professional Cartoonists' Index
This site contains cartoons, news, lesson plans, handouts
and an index of American cartoonists. You will find useful
visuals in the Teacher Guide page.
The
Discovery Channel School
Is a large site with some useful activities and links.
Current, interesting and friendly, it is worth a visit.
Full of ideas for teachers, parents and
students
Discovery
School’s Puzzlemaker
Useful for both teachers and students. This site offers a
range of options for making puzzles including crosswords,
cryptograms, letter tiles and word searches.
EdNA
The Educational Network of Australia
This is probably the place to start any search if you
want Australian sites. You will find many links to other
Australian sites including educational organisations and professional
associations. There are sections for students, teachers
and other educational professionals. The navigation
is easy to follow.
Enchanted
Learning
A valuable early childhood site with some interesting craft
activities. Big, colourful writing could make it worthwhile
for instructional texts in early childhood classes.
Internet
Connections: Language Arts.
This worthwhile American site has a long list of links.
A quick scan will find lesson plans, ideas for teaching, proformas
and other useful things. You could spend many hours
exploring the offerings through a site like this using the
organisers of "reading", "writing"
and "reference". The "create characters"
section, for example, could help high school teachers who
want to direct students to information to help narrative writing.
Introducing
New Software to Your Class
Advice for teachers from e-magine's Professional Learning
Website.
More
Ideas Than You’ll Ever Use for Book Reports
A huge list of creative reporting ideas that cover written,
visual and dramatic suggestions.
MyRead
Informed by current literacy research, including Luke and
Freebody's Four Resources Model, MyRead provides teachers
with strategies to support underperforming students in
the middle years of schooling. Highly recommended.
Powerpoint
This will enable you to prepare your own Powerpoint presentations from e-magine's Professional Learning Team.
ReadWriteThink
A comprehensive site for English and literacy educators,
developed by the National Council of Teachers of English
(NCTE) and the International Reading Association (IRA).
SOFWeb
Internet Tutorial
A very useful site full of ideas on how to use the internet
effectively.
Sofweb:
Key Learning Area English
Part of the huge Schools of the Future site with links to
all learning areas. There is a lot of information for
those who can spend the time searching this extensive and
valuable teaching resource.
Story
Arts Online
This site is designed to help teachers and students to explore
the art of storytelling. It includes lots of stories, activities
and readings.
Teachit
- Teaching English Online
Developed in collaboration with NATE, this site has a wide
range of valuable English teaching resources.
Tribes
TLC
Tribes TLC is a cooperative approach to teaching and learning
that can be used within classrooms and school communities.
This site gives a brief explanation of the Tribes approach
and an introduction to the author of the Tribes book,
Jeanne Gibbs. There is also a product catalogue that
includes books, buttons and even t-shirts!
Web English Teacher
A huge award-winning site for English and literacy teachers
K-12.
