These are some of the sites I use over and over to help me in my teaching endeavors.\u00c2\u00a0 If you know of more online resources, leave a comment and I’ll add them to the list.<\/p>\n
Lesson Plans and Other Teaching Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n The Great Books Foundation<\/a> – Essential website for learning Shared Inquiry Discussion, the best way to get kids talking about books<\/p>\n ReadWriteThink<\/a> – Fantastic database of lesson plans and student tools<\/p>\n ROMAN Reading: 5 Practical Skills for Transforming Your Life Through Literature<\/a> – My ebook about how to read a book Children’s Literature Web Guide<\/a> – Mostly for K-6 teachers, but some valuable resources <\/span><\/p>\n Linda’s Links to Literature<\/a> – General resources for teaching literature<\/p>\n Today in Literature<\/a> – A good place to get literature trivia or to find some interesting tidbit for the beginning of class<\/p>\n Eduhound<\/a> – Resources for teachers in all areas, not just literature<\/p>\n Reading Aloud to Children<\/a> – Some helpful hints and suggestions Quotiki<\/a> – When you need a writing prompt or something inspirational for you bulletin board this is a great resource for finding and saving quotes Professional Development:<\/strong><\/p>\n TeacherClockHours.com<\/a> – Every professional workshop and conference in one location. For teachers in Washington State, soon to expand into other states.<\/p>\n Making Meaning in Literature<\/a> – Don’t miss this free online workshop for 6-8 teachers from Annenberg Media–you won’t believe the quality of these materials.<\/p>\n Conversations in Literature<\/a> – An amazingly produced and developed free video workshop for 6-12 teachers from Annenberg, complete with hour-long video training sessions<\/p>\n Wikiversity: Education<\/a> – Wikimedia’s online learning resources for educators and those interested in teaching<\/p>\n Wikiversity: Language and Literature<\/a> – Wikimedia’s online learning resources for the study of the langage arts<\/p>\n Laura Robb’s Reading Workshop Resources<\/a><\/p>\n Nancy Patterson’s Literature Circle Lessons<\/a><\/p>\n Judy Lightfoot’s Teaching Page<\/a><\/p>\n Online books and poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n Project Gutenberg<\/a> – The king of all online book sites<\/p>\n How to Prepare a Gutenberg text for eReading<\/a> – An easy way to format Gutenberg texts so they can be printed and read more easily<\/p>\n Online Books Page<\/a> – Second only to Project Gutenberg in stature, but a bigger book database<\/p>\n Google Books<\/a> – Searchable, readable books online with links to places you can borrow or buy them<\/p>\n Google Scholar<\/a> – Search scholarly literature; includes full-text books<\/p>\n Wikibooks<\/a> – Open-content textbooks The Poetry Archive<\/a> – Recordings of famous poets reading and discussing their poems Best Places to Get Free Books<\/a> – A nice collection of links<\/p>\n Middleweb<\/a>Cinderella Stories<\/a> – from the Children’s Literature Web Guide<\/p>\n SurLaLune Annotated Fairy Tales<\/a><\/p>\n Book Lists<\/strong><\/p>\n 300+ Recommended Books for Junior High Students<\/a> – The eighth grade reading list for my students is now available in .pdf format<\/p>\n Literary Testosterone: 30 Must-Read Classics for Teenage Boys <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Senger’s Students Teen Book Reviews<\/a> – My junior high students have been writing book recommendations for teens since 1990, and now I have over 400 recommendations on 3×5 cards that I am trying to enter into this database.<\/span><\/p>\n 15 Mammoth Books for Teens<\/a> – A .pdf reading list of long books for teenagers<\/p>\n Recommended Fantasy Author List<\/a> – One of the best resources for fantasy fiction on the Internet for many years<\/p>\n Robert Teeter’s Great Book Lists<\/a> – A comprehensive collection of recommended reading lists<\/p>\n Novel Guides – Lots of good resources for teaching individual books <\/strong>SCORE Cyberguides<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n Glencoe Study Guides<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Penguin Groups Reading Guides<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n ReadingGroupGuides.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Modern Library Reading Group Guides<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Sparknotes Literature Guides<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Litsum<\/a><\/p>\n Course Materials for the Study of Science Fiction<\/a><\/p>\n Instructor Guides from HarperAcademic<\/a><\/p>\n Book Clubs Resource<\/a><\/p>\n Reference Sites<\/strong>Online Etymology Dictionary<\/a><\/p>\n Encyclopedia Mythica<\/a><\/p>\n Cliffs Notes Online<\/a><\/p>\n Online Tools for Students Gradefix<\/a> – Students enter their homework and how much time each assignment will take, and Gradefix automatically calculates when to study and for how long. A great tool for procrastinators and their parents.<\/p>\n Stu.dicio.us<\/a> – For students to keep notes, track grades, organize projects and homework, and collaborate with others<\/p>\n Yahoo Answers<\/a> – Students and teachers can ask and answer questions on any topic Research Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n MyStickies<\/a> – Put sticky notes on web pages to keep track of relevant information<\/p>\n i-Lighter<\/a> – Allows students to highlight and write notes about web pages; great for Internet research Easybib<\/a> – Answer questions about your reference source and Easybib shows you how it should look in the bibliography Ottobib<\/a> – Enter the ISBN of any book and Ottobib gives you the bibliographic information you need for your research paper in MLA, APA, and other styles. Cl1p.net<\/a> – An Internet notepad that can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connectionYourdraft.com<\/a> – Collaborative writing on the web<\/p>\n Thinkature.com<\/a> – Collaborative brainstorming and mapping Collaborative Mind Mapping<\/a> – another collaborative brainstorming site These are some of the sites I use over and over to help me in my teaching endeavors.\u00c2\u00a0 If you know of more online resources, leave a comment and I’ll add them to the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[352],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-lists"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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