Resources+for+Teachers

Professional Resources: (Feel free to add any resources to our list!)
[|Videos and Discussions for Professional Development]

[|International Reading Association] Check out the International Reading Association website! This is a great resource for teachers and a wonderful professional organization to join.

[|Mr. Kunz's 3rd Grade Class] What's happening in Mr. Kunz's 3rd Grade Class? Click here and check out our class website!

[|Word Central]

[|Create a Wordle With Your Writing!]

[|The Early Childhood Education Network]

[|Starfall: Teach Young Children How to Read]

Facilitating emergent literacy skills: a literature-based, multiple intelligence approach. I just read and reviewed this journal article for another class. Originally appearing in a 2006 issue of //Journal of Research in Childhood Education// this article is now available online. I added it because I felt the last few "pages" may be helpful. The 8 areas of multiple intelligence are listed and activities are described that the investigator used with the children. These activities are broken down further into four categories: alphabet knowledge, phonics, nonsense words, and fluency. The study was done with kindergarten age students but might give insight for planning activites in literacy that consider varying learning styles through the different ages. -Tori

[|Take My Teacher Home] I am adding this site so I can also look at it further tonight. A school in Boulder, Colarado is experimenting with iPod shuffles as part of differentiated learning instruction.The idea is the student can take their teacher home with them. The page lists lesson plans, overview, video, audio, results of the first year, and accounts from students who participated.