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These elementary assessment plans, developed and taught by teachers, incorporate a wide variety of student-centered assessment strategies.
Take advantage of the experiences of other teachers in eight detailed assessment plans that provide usable assessments, detailed instructional procedures, and scored student work samples.
K-3 resource, you can find free worksheets, lesson plans, classroom management ideas, great links, tips, and more!
Online curriculum and learning resource, combines curriculum topics, standards alignment tools, prescreened Web sites that correspond to key Illinois curriculum area
Copyright: What Should I Know?
Resources for differentiation and technology for teachers presented by Dr. J. Beyersdorfer and Linda Smith, Technology Specialists in District 21.
Ebsco has a wealth of educational journals and professional materials.
Comprehensive database of lesson plans plus education news.
Google is a search engine that searches 85% of the Internet.
Harcourt has a great website with amazing amounts of materials. (weekly tests, prescriptions for re-teaching, student growth profiles, lesson ideas & resources)
iTools provides users with access to a rich collection of on-line resources.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.
Here you will find lesson plans and resources that should prove valuable in the classroom. The site was created by Marty Levine
NoodleTools is a suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with their online research.
The Lexile Framework for Reading take the guesswork out of selecting targeted books and articles that can help to improve reading skills-by matching readers to appropriate texts.
These links are here for you to look at, share, reflect on, and decide if any or all could impact your teaching which will in turn impact student learning.
Equip educators with "Just-In-Time" strategies for the unpredictable challenges or "OOPS" moments of classroom teaching.
These games were created in PowerPoint. Download the templates and modify the games to fit your curriculum needs.
Below are blank templates that you may edit to create your own PowerPoint games.
Create puzzles for your classroom
Here you will find a diamond mine of resources for Story town.
Great site for novel units. Good for all different reading levels.
At this site you can search titles and collections using powerful criteria including reading level, topic, award, and much more!
This data base has a wealth of educational journals and professional materials.
Help students read more ... and enjoy it. Bring authors into your classroom
TrackStar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites for use in lessons.

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