Teaching Guides/Lesson Plans/Teaching Materials 75 Authors/Illustrators Everyone Should Know Aberystwyth Centre for the Book Academy of American Poets Accelerated Reader Achieve, Inc Achuka Action Alliance for Children Acting It Out Adopt-A-Classroom Grants The Adventures of Herman: Autobiography of Squirmin' Herman the Worm The Afghan Education Alliance Africa Access African American Literature Book Club African American Read-In Chain African American Voting Rights - Literacy's Role African Studies Internet Resources Akhlah: The Jewish Children's Learning Network Alliance for Excellent Education Alliteration in Headline Poems - Michelle Kimbro describes a way for students to apply new information and reinforce writing skills through writing headline poems. America's Literacy Directory America's National Parks enrich place-based learning America's Promise American Association of School Administrators (AASA) American Booksellers Association American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO American Folklore American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) A blog about American Indians in Children's Literature American Library Association American Museum of Science and Energy American Passages American Printing House for the Blind American Youth Policy Forum Ancient Mali Andrew Lost Classroom Club This site includes Teacher Guides and Resources, along with a Featured Experiment Animal Corner!A place to meet the animals of the world! Animal Land Annenberg/CPB Annie E. Casey Foundation Antiquarian Booksellers Association Armed Services YMCA ArtenautasPlay games, do art and learning activities in Spanish. Artists for Literacy Project Assembling a List of Works Cited The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents Association of American Publishers (AAP) Association of American University Presses, Inc. Association of Book Groups Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) Association of Jewish Libraries Australian Education Links Author Interviews Awards & Prizes Online Babe Ruth Baboró - Ireland's first international arts festival especially for children aged between 3 and 12 Backyard Nature Balkin Buddies Barahona Center/Centro Barahona - Find children's books in Spanish The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy The Barr-Harris Children's Grief Center Batter Up Kids: Delicious Desserts BCALA-Wiley Black Books Galore! Contest - Contest for public and school librarians (ends March 31, 2004) Beating the Odds (3rd ed.) - The Council of the Great City Schools Beginning with Books:Center for Early Literacy Best Children's Books Between the Lions Big Chalk Bio-CubeThis site from ReadWriteThink.org is an interactive tool helping stdent from grades 3-12 analyze and retain information from biographies they read. Birth to Six Black Expressions Kids Corner - Discounted books for club members Blue Web'n Book Adventure Book Review BookHive Books For Kids Foundation BOOK IT! BookNotes Teachers Guide Booktalks Booktrust Born LearningAlso available in Spanish Boys and Girls Clubs of America Brain Teasers Bringing the Outside In The Bug Club Bullies to Buddies Bullying Busy Teachers' Website California Learning Resource Network California State University Social Studies Lesson Plans Cancer Support Cancer Support- non profit Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation CanLit For Kids Capitol Choices The Careful Collector Cartoonists Across America And The World Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Center for Aggression Management Center for Applied Linguistics The Center for Children's Books Center for Digital Storytelling Center for Summer Learning Centering Corporation - on-line grief resource center Centre for the book (Monash Univ) Centre for the Book (South Africa) Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne Australia Character Education and Civic Engagement Technical Assistance Center (CETAC) The Chalkboard Charter Schools Chesskids Academy Child Bereavement Trust Children's Africana Book Award Winners Children's Book Council, Inc. Children's Book Guild of Washington, D.C. Children's Books Ireland Children's Book Project Children's Literacy Initiative Children's Literature's Teaching Guides Children's Literature Association Children's Literature Collection (UIUC) The Children's Literature Web Guide Children's Literature WebRing Children's Publisher's The Children’s Rights Alliance Church and Synagogue Library Association CivilWar@Smithsonian Click and Go Authors Learn "Cloudspeak" at The Space Place The Coalition for Community Schools College & University - How does a reader make a poem meaningful? Reader-response theory and the poetry portfolio Combating Censorship Comfort Zone Camp Comic Books for Young Adults Communities in Schools Community Experience Compassion Books The Compassionate Friends Computer Technology:What impact has computer technology had on public education in the US? ConfrontingCyberbullying Cooking Up Reading Cooperative Children's Book Center Corporation for National Service Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) Correctional Education Association Council for Professional Recognition Creative-Journal Crisis, Grief, and Healing CTAP Software Group Purchase Cultural Art Resources for Teachers and Students Curious George Teacher/Librarian Resource Center CyberSurfari The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection Death and Dying Declare Yourself Department of Education - Improving teacher Quality Non-Regulatory Guidance Department of Education: Measures to Close High School Achievement Gap Department of Education Developmental Studies Center The Diamond Bookshelf Dimdima - online children's magazine Dinosphere Directory of Scholarly & Professional E-Conferences Discounted Telecommunications Services for Schools and Libraries (E-Rate) Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems Discovery School - The Teacher Channel Disney Education Station Distance Education Copyright Bill Information Don't Know Much About Doubleday Children's Book Club "Drop Everything and Read!" - This reading program helps students build the habit of lifelong reading for the love of it. DSO KidsDallas Symphony Orchestra website for kids Education Week Educators for Social Responsibility Edu-StationTM (Disney Educational Productions) Edutaining Kids Edutopia Magazine - Free Subscription Eerdmans Books for Young Readers - Free discussion guides for books for young readers Ella the Elephant EPA Environmental Kids Club Equity and Excellence:What circumstances maximize the student's full possibilities? Read Professor Tomlinson's principles for fostering equity and excellence. eSchool News eSchool News School Funding Center A Europe of Tales Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology in Our Schools Everybody Wins Foundation Everybody Wins! DC E-Wally Exploratorium-the Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception FableVision Fact Hound(For use with Capstone Book IDs, lets kids find useful and related Web sites that have been screened for content.) FastWEB - Largest online scholarship search available Favorite Poem Project- Boston University Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) The Federation of Children's Book Groups Federation of State Humanities Councils FindArticles First Amendment First Aid KitA Random House Children's Books project in support of Banned Books Week. First Book - The simple goal: Give poor children their own first new book. Focus on Reading and No Child Left Behind sections of the International Reading Association Foxfire Fund, Inc. The Foundation Center Frank Odasz - Making the Best Use of the Internet to Enhance Student Learning FREE Federal Resources for Educational Excellence is the result of over 30 Federal agencies making hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. Free SpiritBooks on Grief, Feelings, and Behavior Fulbright Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program Fundsnet Online Services Funds for Inspirational K-12 Teachers - Deadline April 30, 2004 GALEX Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) Get Caught Reading Get a Kick Out of Reading Get Ready to ReadAlso available in Spanish GoCityKidsA guide to family-friendly activities in the city Grants Alert Grant Writing Tips GriefNet The Global Education Digest 2004 Global Educator Award and Peace Educator Award Globes GoCityKidsA guide to family-friendly activities in the city Grantionary - A list of grant-realted terms and their definitions. GrantsAlert Website to help nonprofits involved in education Grant Writing Tips Graphic Novel Reviews Green School Project H Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online HarperTeacher.com - A resource for Teachers and Librarians Head Start - National Reporting System on Child Outcomes Head Start - Administration for Children and Families Head Start - Child Outcomes Research and Evaluation Head Start - Annotated Bibliography of Head Start Research Head Start - Spanish version of the Child Outcomes Framework Heads Up Reading - A Distance Learning College Course for the Early Childhood Community Health The Heart of America - Our vision is simple: Focus on the child. Find books that are not being used and take them to where they are needed. Helen Ketteman - Incorporate picture books into various curriculum. Heroes and Hope High/Scope Educational Research Foundation HighlightsKids.com History teachers don't know enough history Houghton Mifflin trade Division Authors (Children's Books) How to Judge the Reliability of the Internet Hurston/Wright Foundation Hyperion Books for Children Download free songs and stories I Want 2 Learn Ideal School Supply iEARN-USA - scholarships for US teachers and schools working online and in face to face events with peers in 19 countries with significant Muslim populations. Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 In2Books Info USA "An authoritative resource for foreign audiences seeking information about American society, political processes, official U.S. policies and culture." InsideADog.com Institute of Museum and Library Services Institute for Responsive Education Institute for Youth, Education, and Families Integrating Literacy and Technology in the Curriculum The International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY) International Children's Digital Library International Reading Association International Society for Technology & Education The Internet Public Library (IPL) Inventive Kids! Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it Invite an Author to Your School! IRA Annual Convention Handouts from presentations ISLMC Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources Itty and Bitty's Mini Stable Jan Brett Activities Japanese Children's Book Resource Jewish Book Publishing News Jireh Publishers Josie's Poetry Yorkshire children's writer Josie Whitehead has posted a collection of 130 new children's poems Judith Rowe Michael's - Dancing with Words invites teachers and students to taste and hear and move to the music of words. Junie B. Jones Classroom Club This site includes Teacher Guides and an Educational Planner KIDSNET Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership KidSpace Kidsreads.com Kingergarten Connection Kulture Kidz An educational website about people of color Language Arts Lesson Plans Language Arts Resources for Teachers Language Arts SCORE LDS Writers - a site for published as well as aspiring Mormon writers. Learning From the Masters - an article from Edutopia by Barnett Berry and John Norton Learn the Net - Help Spanish-speaking teens use the Web. Learning Leaders   (formerly New York City School Volunteer Program) The Left-Handed Page Leiden Centre for the Book     The Lexile National Reading Conference 2006 Downloadable presentations, handouts, and a related news clip about Readability. Libraries for the Future Library of America Library of Congress Center for the Book The Library of Congress Map Collections The Lisa Libraries A foundation started by author Ann M. Martin and friends to provide new, unused children's books to day care centers, shelters, and after-school programs. Literary Agents The Literary Guild- Discounted children's book club Literature as a Catalyst for Social Action: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges Explore the craft of authors and artists and discover the potential of the picture book for presenting complex ideas about the human experience in this 3-5 ReadWriteThink lesson, which uses picture books to challenge students to engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender. LitLine. Illinois Writers Directory Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2000 Lutheran Church Library Association Magic tree House Classroom Club This site includes Teachers Guides, Activity Sheets and Educational Planners MagPortal MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom A Maths Dictionary for Kids An animated, interactive dictionary for students which explains over 500 common mathematical terms in simple language. Mathematics SCORE Maupin House McREL Media Masters Publicity Megaskills Education Center The Memory String - A book about remembering lost loved ones Mermaids! a Norfolktale Midwest Book Review Mike Mulligan Book Activities MindOH! Foundation Molly Moon Stops the World - The bigger-than-life tale offers delightfully dastardly villains, a sympathetic heroine who lives out every child's dream and plenty of fast-paced action." -Publishers Weekly Mosaic: a quarterly report series on projects of interest to the education activists. Mother Goose Programs My Sankofa - 3rd Printing of The Return of the African American Nancy Matson (Teaching Guides) Nancy Polette Nate the Great Teacher's Guides and Activities National Archives & Records Administration Today's Document from the National Archive National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities National Association for the Education of Young Children National Association of Partners in Education National Book Centre (Greece) The National Book Foundation National Book Scholarship Fund NCES Study - The Condition of Education 2001 (key in publication number 2001072) National Center for Children Exposed to Violence National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature National Center for Death Education(NCDE) National Center for ESL Literacy Education National Center for Family Literacy National Center for Grieving Children and Families National Center for Learning Disabilities The National Charter Schools Facility Program - Department of Education National Coalition for Literacy National Council of Social Studies National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) National Council of Teachers of Mathematics - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Announces Four Grants. Application deadline: December 3, 2004 National Education Association - Read Across America National Endowment for the Arts NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education National Endowment for the Humanities National Library of Virtual Manipulatives Natural Teachers: "Natural teachers instinctively work the crowd," Jones writes. "They use proximity as an instrument of management. They know that either you work the crowd, or the crowd works you." NCTE/IRA ReadWriteThink National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial National Federation of Press Women National Gardening Association (NGA) National Geographic National Geographic Educational Support Tools National Institute for Literacy National Literacy trust National Reading Panel National Rural Education Association National Science Foundation - free publication on encouraging girls in math, engineering, and science National Storytelling Network The National Urban Alliance National Youth Council of Ireland National Endowment for the Humanities - NEH encourages scholars, teachers, filmmakers, curators, and librarians to submit grant applications that explore significant events and themes in our nation's history and culture and that advance knowledge of the principles that define America. National Center for Community Education National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) NCTE Reading and Writing on the Web National Museum of the American Indian National Network of Partnership Schools National Science Teachers Association National Writing Project Native American - Art/Education Center Native American - The Explore Park Native American - a Native American village Nepali e-Magazine Netlingo A list of acronyms and text messaging short hand New Readers Press NewspaperARCHIVE.com With a new program called Access NewspaperARCHIVE, students and library patrons will be able to save and print full-page newspapers from 1759-1977. No Child Left Behind - Access the Federal Register notice about the State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grants Program. No Child Left Behind State Guidance No Child Left Behind - Toolkit for Teachers Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Rural Education Program Notable Books for a Global Society Notes from the Windowsill Nutrition and Fitness Filed trips OASIS & Alice for Windows Odyssey Online Office of External Programs (Northern Illinois University) Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA) Value of School Libraries Once Upon a Family - A son's journey of Love, Loss and Hope. Online Education Open Society Institute-Russia Orca Book Publishing Teaching Guides Organizations Concerened About Rural Education Orion Society Owl & Mouse- free educational software The PaperTigers For all those interested in young readers' books from and about the Pacific Rim and Asia Paradigm Online Writing Assistant Partnership Plus Program Ed Resources Paso Partners The Paul Zindel First Novel Award PBS Kids Go! Peace Education Curriculum from the U.N. PEN/Faulkner Foundation Pennsylvania History Philanthropy News Digest - A weekly news service. PIRLS -- Ongoing project of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Place-Based Education Poems-and-Poetry Poetry Society of America Poets House Positive Action Powhatan Indians of Virginia Project Wet ProLiteracy Worldwide Public Education Network Quilting Stories - Putting all the little pieces together Raab Associates Rand McNally Raising a Reader Random House Children's Books - Free Teaching Guides from Random House The Rappin' MathematicianRap songs about math and living a positive life Reach Out and Read - National Center Read Naturally Reading A-Z.com Reading Group Choices Reading In-Depth Reading is Fundamental Reading is Fundamental - Find out what it takes to create the illustrations in children's books Reading Rainbow Reading Rockets Reading, Writing, and Rings ReadWriteThink Ready At Five Partnership Promoting school readiness, also available in Spanish RecordedBooks.com Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic Recursos en español (Spanish Language Resouces) Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus Celebrate Shakespeare's birthday with an exploration of Renaissance Humanism. After reading Hamlet, students use visual and literary tools to identify, analyze, and explain how elements in Botticelli’s painting The Birth of Venus and examples from the play illustrate the philosophy of Renaissance Humanism. Resource Links - Canada's newest national journal devoted to the review and evaluation of Canadian resources for children and young adults. Rewards, not sanctions, help improve school accountability Riverbank Review River of Words Rural Entrepreneurship Through Action Learning Enterprises Rural School and Community trust San Francisco Center for the Book Sankofa - A Journal of African Children's and Young Adult Literature SAS Institute SB&F Online "Scaffolding" technique - to provide support to students as they learn a concept School Development Program Scholastic.com SchoolGrants- K-12 Grant Opportunities! Sci-Try Science NetLinks - Lessons, Resources, and Benchmarks for K-12 Science SCORE The Scoop SCORE Home Page Search Institute Sesame Workshop SIL International Sites for Teachers Small Planet Communications Small Press Center of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen SmartWriters.com Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies Smithsonian Education Snickerdoodle for Kids Social Studies Curriculum Resources Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (Michigan Chapter) Solibros A bilingual website with activities and downloadable resources corresponding to the Solibros books. Starlight Film Project Start Smarter State Animals Step Into Reading - Learning to Read, Step by Step! StoryPage - Web site about storytelling Story Place - Bi-lingual web site for young children StoryPlus - Promoting children's literacy Storycraft Storytelling Foundation, Inc. Students Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE) Studying Poetry - Activities, Resources, and Texts by Brian Moon emphasizes analysis and inquiry activities tied to poems ranging from the fourteenth century to today, by the likes of Shakespeare, Frost, Plath, Levertov, and others. Summer Fun Super Thinkers Sparks children's imagination with fun games and stories Supplemental Educational Services Quality (SESQ) Free Tutoring for Kids Teachnet The TEACH ToolKit - An online resource for understanding copyright and distance education Teacher Net Teacherlink Teachers.net Teachers & Writers Collaborative Teachers Networking Teachers Helping Teachers Teachers Teaching Teachers - Towson University, Maryland Writing Project Teachers@Random This Random House site has teacher guides, author/illustrator biographies, a planning calendar and thematic search Teachers@Retail A Random House project enhancing the relationship between teachers and retailers Teaching Books.net Teaching PreK-8 Teaching the Internet in Libraries Teaching Tolerance TeachingBooks Teddy Bear History Teddy Bear Activities TeenSpace The Internet Public Library for Teens Through the Looking Glass Book Review Tile.net TFK Time for Kids Tips for Funding Technology Needs Top 100 Educational Sites Toronto Centre for the Book Trace Vaughn Zimmer books, teaching guides, and lesson plans Travel with Lewis and Clark Trick-Or-Treat For Unicef Offers New Teaching Resources TumbleBooks Vandergrift's Learning About the Author and Illustrator Pages UNESCO U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) U.S. Department of Education - Office of Vocational and Adult Education US Mint - Includes facts, history, and games as well as free lesson plans. US National Commision on Libraries and Information Science US Board of Books for Young People Using Students as substitute teachers. Eighth grade math teacher Bob Brems has prepped student volunteers to teach his classes for several years. Univ. of Iowa Center for the Book Verizon Literacy University - ProLiteracy Worldwide and the National Center for Family Literacy, with generous support from Verizon Communications, have teamed up to create Verizon Literacy University (VLU) - an online training center providing assistance to a wide range of organizations and individuals working in the literacy field. Vietnam Veterans Homepage The Vietnam War Memorial Virginia Center for Children's Books VisitingAuthors.com - a great resource to plan author visits Wash and Learn - a NY project bringing books and education students into local laundromats for the waiting children. Weaving the Threads: Integrating Poetry Annotation and Web Technology. Invite your students to explore the meanings of specific words and phrases in poems they've read by creating online, linked annotations with this lesson by NCTE's Assembly on Computers in English Chair Nancy Patterson. Choose poems by Shel Silverstein (to celebrate his October 18 birthday) or black poets (to celebrate Black Poetry Day on October 17). Web-traveller's Toolkit: Essential Kid Lit Websites Webquests Websites of Authors and Illustrators Weekly Reader Corporation Weston Woods We the People Bookshelf - New program of the National Endowment for the Humanities Email Mary Haggerty or call (617)300-4299 to find out about WGBH and the free educational materials they offer to teachers and librarians. What Makes a Good Book Wheely Willy and Friends Who are the "profoundly intelligent"? What are some of the characteristics of profoundly intelligent children? Women's National Book Association Women in Literacy Wonder Korner Wordcraft Circle of Native Hunters and Storytellers Wordpool - The children’s book site for parents, teachers and writers. Workman Website World Bank World Kid Magazine Celebrate World Poetry Day and the changing seasons with this 3-5 lesson by Renee Goularte, which reviews basic parts of speech and builds vocabulary as students compose original poems. Worlds Together for kids - Worlds Together is a series of VHS videos for advanced students and adults. It examines vital World cultures, from East Africa to Cuba, from West Africa to Peru. The series now expands to explore these same cultures in the language of young children. Worlds Together for kids is suitable for grades 1-3. Writing Alternative Plots for Robert C. O’Brien's Z for Zachariah Throughout this novel, the narrator, Ann Burden, faces tough decisions as she strives to survive in a post-nuclear holocaust world. In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students apply their knowledge of cause and effect to these tough decisions to create alternative plots. Write Directions - a site for budding authors WriteNet Writing Prompts/Journal Topics Writingfix.com Your Vote Counts! Youth Literature Online Certificate Program Zero to Three Zigby ZOOMing out to Vote!ZOOM's new election guide. Teaching Guides and Lesson Plans