Instructional Resources on the Internet
It’s always a challenge to create valuable learning experiences for your kids, especially ones they can use for independent practice while you teach small groups. Here are a few resources.
**Special thanks to those who contributed links, especially Jeannie Anderson.

fcrr.org Centers
Here is a huge collection of center activities developed by the Florida Reading First Technical Assistance Center. They are categorized by reading component, and you may also look in the crosswalk section to find them sorted according to DIBELS subtest.

Kindergarten and 1st grades http://www.fcrr.org/activities/

Grades 2 and 3 http://www.fcrr.org/Curriculum/studentCenterActivities23.htm

http://readwritethink.org/
ReadWriteThink, established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.

Helping Teachers Use the Internet Effectively
http://teachers.santee.k12.ca.us/carl/word_way.htm
On this page you will find many reproducible activities, picture and word cards for sorting, and word family activity sheets.

http://desktoppub.about.com/od/fonts/p/schoolfree.htm
Free handwriting fonts for teachers mimic lettering used to teach print and cursive handwriting skills, several of these print in dashed letters for tracing.

http://www.kinderkorner.com/centers.html This website includes a simple list of Kindergarten Centers, many applicable to first grade.

http://www.smbsd.org/page.cfm?p=35
This is Santa Maria Bonita School District Reading website from California. The district uses Houghton Mifflin and has a lot of organizational resources online related to this core series, but many of the resources are helpful no matter what series you use.

http://www.theteacherspot.com/readers_theatre.html Many resources available for Readers’ Theatre.

Here is one teacher’s collection of links, including webquests and interactive sites for kids. http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com/showall.asp?folder=882839

http://www.texasreading.org/utcrla/materials/ There are lots of suggestions for activities to use with struggling readers. Go down to the Primary Booklets section. Several of these are large downloads.

http://www.techteachconcepts.com/ideas.htm A general list of educational websites from an educator who provides technology related workshops.


http://classroom.jc-schools.net/read/ This webpage is hosted by a district which uses DIBELS, Scott Foresman, and other resources. Check out the links down the right hand side, particularly Literacy Lane, and the large collection of Powerpoint Presentations.
http://www.thevirtualvine.com/workstations.html Kindergarten workstation site.

SONGS
http://teachersfirst.com/getsource.cfm?id=6283
Songs to teach Phonics etc.

Great Places to find Pictures and Clip Art from the internet:
http://www.jigzone.com/
http://school.discovery.com/clipart/
http://www.kidsdomain.com/clip/

Technology/Smart boards sites:
http://www.4teachers.org/
http://www.nwnet.org.uk/pages/ Note this is from the UK.
http://www.smarttech.com/ TONS of pre-made SMART activities
http://www.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/SB/templates.htm Many templates for Interactive White Boards, SMART
http://www.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/SB/collections.htm Many Collections of clip art
http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm#LanguageArts Lessons in all areas of the curriculum.

Spelling Practice with your own words. http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/Flash%20Studio/cfslit/Spellings/spellings.html You input your own spelling words for practice activities; including, Look and say, Cover and Check, Print Flash Cards, Review and assess.

http://www.theteacherspot.com/firstyears/1st_grade_reading_strategies2.htm A site that has many ideas about teaching all subject areas. Good ideas for teaching Reading and Centers.
http://mrs.norris.net/Language/wordchunks.index.html Practice chunking words with word families.
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/ Online and printable flash cards. Create, Study, Print and Download Flash Cards.
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html Graphic organizers!

Internet 4 Classrooms http://www.internet4classrooms.com/

Rubrics
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.

Author Websites
http://208.183.128.3/ce/literarylinks.htm Several authors here.
http://robertmunsch.com/ The author personally reads all his books!