Elementary School

• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
  http://www.carolhurst.com
  This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
  
  
• Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA)
  http://www.ciera.org/index.html
  CIERA’S mission is to improve the reading achievement of America’s youth by generating and disseminating theoretical, empirical, and practical solutions to the learning and teaching of beginning reading.
  
  
• Children's Book Council, Authors
  http://www.cbcbooks.org/html/aboutauthors.html
  Listing of web sites and related resources about authors.
  
  
• Children's Literature Web Guide, Authors
  http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html
  A listing of children's book authors' pages.
  
  
• Fiction Teachers.com
  http://www.fictionteachers.com/
  Lesson plans, activities for teaching fiction, including classroom theater versions of stories.
  
  
• National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement, The
  http://cela.albany.edu
  CELA's research seeks to learn what elements of curriculum, instruction, and
  assessment are essential to developing high literacy and how schools can best help students achieve success.
  
  
• PBS TeacherSource
  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
  Lesson plans and activites, including local PBS schedules and teacher workshops.
  
  
• PBS Kids
  http://pbskids.org/grownups/
  Episode guides, at-home activites, and links to PBS kids programs.
  
  
• Poetry Teachers.com
  http://www.poetryteachers.com/
  Ideas and activities for teaching poetry.
  
  
• Scholastic
  http://www.scholastic.com/
  Teacher lesson plans and classroom activites.
  
  
• U.S. Department of Education
  http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp
  
  
• Writing Process, The
  http://www.psesd.wednet.edu/write_process/write_PC/writepr.htm
  In this on-line self tutorial, teachers and students alike are guided through the writing process with the analogy of creating a "Magnifique" pizza.
  
  
  

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