Finding Free Kids Books Online Connect with us on Facebook or Twitter for all our latest finds!! We're heading out for summer vacation soon and I asked my daughter what she wants to bring in her suitcase - her 'very important items' include a swimsuit, blankie & 32 books! So, as a parent, here's where I jump up and down saying 'Yea! She loves to read!" but the practical side of me says there's no way we can pack that many books. Not to mention, she's a voracious reader (finishes a book off faster than an ice cream cone!) So, I did some research on where we can find some online books & reading material for vacation and I thought I would share. Hope you find something to keep the kids happy and engaged too! One of the original places to find books online, Project Gutenberg takes books whose US copyright has expired and places them on the web in a digital copy. Many of the books found here are text only, available as html or in Kindle format (easily read on your laptop). 20 Summer Scavenger Hunts {free printables!}
Teachers Hub @ Harpercollins We have a wide range of resources available to support our titles in the classroom. To browse our teachers’ notes, author profiles, reading lists and more on the HarperCollins Website, please click here. You can directly download our 2014 Education Catalogue here. Michael Morpurgo also has his own dedicated teachers resources located here. Like this: Like Loading... 50 Incredibly Useful Links For Learning & Teaching The English Language - Teaching a new language to non-native speakers may be one of the most challenging educational jobs out there, so ELL teachers can use all of the help they can get! Thankfully, many excellent resources for ELL and ESL exist online, from full-service websites to reference tools and communities, all designed to make the task of educating ELL students just a little bit easier and more effective. We’ve scoured the Internet to share 50 of the best of these resources, and we hope you’ll find lots of valuable content and tools through these incredibly useful links for ELL educators. Websites Resource tools, printables, and other great stuff for ELL educators are all available on these sites. Articles & Advice Check out resource lists, journal articles, and ideas for best practices in ELL on these links. Organizations Take advantage of the great opportunities and resources available from these organizations that benefit ELL teachers. Learning Resources Teaching Resources Reference Communities & Blogs
Picture Book Teaching Ideas Alphabetical List of Books: We have free teaching ideas and resources for hundreds of popular children's books. Browse the alphabetical list below by clicking on a letter and then choose a book cover! Return to the main Teaching Ideas Library contents here. Flipagram Makes Instagram Slideshows Effortless I feel like I use Instagram in ways that the creators never intended. Sure I share what I’m doing across my social networks, and occasionally throw a vintage filter on there, but more than anything, I use it to send my photos to family back home. Sharing to Facebook is perfect for this, because most of my family uses the site. Best of all, I never have to explain what Instagram is to show them what’s up. In cases like these, I could manually download all of my photos, link to them individually, or make some sort of slideshow. Created as a side project by Josh Feldman and Raffi Baghoomian from HUGE‘s LA team, Flipagram lets you select photos from your Instagram library, sort them, add a title or a soundtrack and then share them via email, Facebook or YouTube. Check out the app via the link below and let us know what you think! ➤ Flipagram, $0.99 via the App Store
Learning Center Activities During 2004-2007, a team of teachers at FCRR collected ideas and created Student Center Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide and Professional Development DVD that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the student center materials. Frequently Asked Questions about Student Center Activities Grades K-1 Student Center Activities (2005) Grades K-1 Student Center Activities (Revised, 2008) Grades 2-3 Student Center Activities (2006) Grades 4-5 Student Center Activities (2007) Student Center Activities and Instructional Routines Search Tool The K-5 Student Center Activities (SCA) and K-3 Instructional Routines search tool provides teacher's access to the 522 individual SCA and the instructional routines from Empowering Teachers.
Teaching Websites Dreamreader PowerPoint Import | Prezi Import your PowerPoint slides into Prezi in just a few clicks. Your slides will import as images that you can resize, rotate, and easily incorporate into your prezi. Check out the video to learn how. How to insert PowerPoint slides In Edit Mode, click Insert from the top menu and then select PowerPoint.... Choose the PPT or PPTX file you want to import. Once you’ve chosen the slides you want to use, click the “X” in the PPT Import pop-out. Note: When you import from PowerPoint, your slides will be imported as SWF image files. Did you know? You can add video and sound to your prezi? If you’re an Enjoy, Edu Enjoy, Pro, and Edu Pro license holder, you can add your own logo to your prezi. Back to top
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds For anyone who has been afraid to express themselves - from a child in art class to an adult whose fear has shut down a long-held dream, Peter H. Reynolds' book The Dot (Candlewick Press) is there to remind us all to "Make your mark, and see where it takes you." We’ve lost count of how many editions The Dot has had - and the number of translations into foreign languages seems to change every few months. Suffice to say, The Dot has "made its mark" around the world - and continues to do so. It's also an animated film by Scholastic/Weston Woods and FableVision. The Dot’s sequel is called Ish and is also a wonderful film. Explore activities, reviews, testimonials and frequently asked questions about The Dot, the first in a trilogy that explores creative expression and human potential...
50 QR code resources for the classroom As mobile learning and technology is more readily integrated within classroom settings, QR codes can be used as an interesting method to capture a student's attention and make lesson material more interactive. Quick response codes, also known as 'QR' codes, are simple, scannable images that are a form of barcode. By scanning a QR code image through a mobile device, information can be accessed including text, links, bookmarks and email addresses. In the classroom, QR codes can be used in a variety of ways -- from conducting treasure hunts to creating modern CVs. Below is a number of articles, tutorials and lesson plans designed to help educators. Articles and tips 1.) 2.) 40 interesting ways to use QR codes in the classroom. 3.) 5 uses of QR codes in the classroom. 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 46 interesting ways to use QR Codes in the classroom. 8.) 75 Teched Out ways to say good job. 9.) 10.) Resources, software and lesson help 11.) 12.) 13.) 14.) 15.) 16.) 17.) 18.) 19.) 20.) 21.) 22.) 23.) 24.) 25.)
The Red Tree, by Shaun Tan ~ A Unit of Study (Yr 4 upwards) This lesson plan sequence provides students with the opportunity to develop their literal and inferential comprehension skills with the use of a fictional text. This unit of study includes predicting, discussing and viewing before assessing students’ comprehension abilities. Arts Ideas can also be incorporated into this unit. This unit also links to health as it incorporates resilience, self-esteem and depression topics. The joy in this lesson is the students predictions, impressions and descriptions are so varied it provides evidence to the students how we all interpret differently. Year 4 English: Year 5 English: Introduction/Warm up: LESSON 1. Body: LESSON 2.Read the text to students – just READ! Discuss impressions they had / messages the illustrations convey / students feelings – record on whiteboard or paper, ask them what they think the book is about. Suggestions about what to talk about LESSON 3. LESSON 4. Show You Tube Clips: Conclusion: Literal (Right There) (worth 1 marks)
Using Technology to Organize Your Lessons and Resources Technology is a wonderful thing. I've been lucky in that my father, a chemist, and my mother, an elementary teacher, both realized that my siblings and I should be exposed to technology early on. I was using a TRS-80 computer in 7th grade (1986-87) and my parents bought us a Radio Shack Color Computer that same year. I took BASIC in high school, using Apple IIe's and then went off to college and majored in Engineering and was an Engineer for 10 years before becoming an educator. I used technology all the time. I rarely carry anything home from school because of these tech tools. I use a few different tech tools to organize my lessons and resources for school and use a variety of tech tools on a daily basis. 1. 2. 3. Google for Educators - Resources for using Google in school 4. These are just some ways to organize your lesson plans and resources. Other tech tools to organize lessons: Learnboost-online gradebook and lesson planner - announces lesson plan sharing Related Articles:
KS2 Book Topic: The Arrival If you’re looking for a book to inspire creative writing and artwork with upper KS2 children, then why not try The Arrivalby Australian illustrator, Shaun Tan? This wordless picture book invites readers to explore a strange new world in the company of a migrant who must leave his family and everything he’s ever known to make the long and difficult journey to another land. Here, everything is different: language, buildings, customs, food – even the pets seem alien. The Arrival deals with some pretty big questions and is far from being a childish story. 1 Share the book Prepare your children for the experience to come by exploring a strange old suitcase full of intriguing objects. Once you’re ready to share the book, consider projecting the pages onto a big screen so that everyone can see each image clearly. The Arrival can be approached on an image-by-image basis, or you can read and enjoy the story before going back and taking a more leisurely stroll through all the detail.