RAC+Sources

 Reading Across the Curriculum Sources:

 Here are some resources I use when teaching reading across the content areas. These are a variety of sources that I use with my students in all the content areas .


 * 1) [|Basic Reading Inventory] by Jerry L. Johns - This a great tool to use to test your students to see what reading level they are on. These tests assess listening and reading comprehension and fluency. There are also strategies to use to improve deficiencies.
 * 2) [|Read, Write, Think] - This website is organized by the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). There are great lesson plans as well student interactive games and lessons. Teachers can search for lesson plans that correlate with state standards.
 * 3) [|Illuminations]- This website is ran by the National Council of Teachers of Math (NCTM). There are great lesson plans and activities for teachers and students to use. The virtual manipulatives are extremely useful and you are able to print manipulatives out. Teachers may also search for trade books to use in their lesson plans. There is an example of a money lesson using the poem Smart by Shel Silverstein. [|Smart Lesson]
 * 4) [|Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators] This website is a great resource for teachers. There is a wealth of lesson plans and resources for every subject area. She also has a bank of links that are full of other additional resources.
 * 5) [|Words Their Way] by Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton, Francine Johnston- This is a great source for beginning readers. I use this book to improve word recognition. By strengthening the students ability to read, they are able to read to learn.
 * 6) __Reading Interest Inventory__- Creating a interest inventory for students allows the teacher to where their interests are; teachers can then form lessons and activities based on the students' interests. [[file:ReadingInterestSurvey.doc]]
 * 7) [|Starfall]- This is a website that my students love to use. There are activities that teach about particular reading skills as well as themed activities. This is a completely interactive website.
 * 8) [|United Streaming] - This is great resource that has lesson plans as well as videos to show that deal with every content area. I use this website quite frequently for social studies when we learn about historical figures.
 * 9) [|Scholastic]- This is a great website for teachers, students, and parents. There are lesson plans, activities, and games. I find the book lists extremely useful when looking for trade books.
 * 10) [|Pete's Power Point Station]- This website has a wealth of power point presentations that you can use for any subject. Some links even have pre-made Jeopardy games.
 * 11) [|Mr. Donn's]- This website has great social studies activities and powerpoints. I use this page often to incorporate multicultural education concepts.
 * 12) [|Me on the Map] by Joan Sweeney and Annette Cable- I use this book when I am introducing map skills to my class. It breaks down the different levels of maps from a bedroom to the continents.
 * 13) [|The Greedy Triangle] by Marilyn Burns- This book is an excellent book for teaching shapes. The triangle wants to change shapes and learns about how many sides and corners other shapes have.
 * 14) [|Johnny Appleseed] by Steven Kellogg - This trade book is particularly handy in our folktale unit. Our text book does not include a lot of information about Johnny Appleseed. We use this story every year to learn about his life.
 * 15) [|Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky]by Faith Ringgold- I use this tradebook when we are talking about Harriet Tubman. We read a variety of biographies about her during our unit so we use this one to compare and contrast to other books on Harriet Tubman.
 * 16) [|The Grouchy Ladybug] by Eric Carle - This is one of my favorite books to use for math. I use this book during the time unit. As I read the story, students will move their mini Judy clocks to show the time.
 * 17) [|Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday] by Judith Viorst - This is a book I use when we are working with money. The students count out how much money Alexander has as we are reading the story.
 * 18) [|Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs] by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett - This is fun book to read during our weather unit. Students compare and contrast the weather occurring in the story to real weather.
 * 19) [|Puncuation Takes a Vacation] by Robin Pulver and Lynn Rowe Reed - This is a book a use to review punctuation. The students love to hear the story read without the punctuation. We focus on the importance of using proper punctuation.
 * 20) [|From Seed to Plant] by Gail Gibbons - This a great book to use when teaching about plants. This a non-fiction book that uses illustrations rather than pictures. Gail Gibbons is great author to use for non-fiction, illustrated stories.