The document lists 20 websites that provide useful resources for teachers. Many of the sites allow teachers to create classroom materials like puzzles, games and worksheets. They also offer lesson plans, rubrics and templates for communicating with parents. Several sites provide resources specifically for teaching language arts, including interactive games for students and examples of lesson plans aligned to standards. Many of the websites give teachers tools for classroom management and creating digital classrooms or websites.

1. Jessica Pickrell
20 Websites
January 25, 2011
1. The Teachers Corner – http://theteacherscorner.net – This site allows
teachers to create and construct fun learning aids like crossword puzzles,
words searches, etc. It allows you to make your own or use one they have
already created. Not only that but it also has worksheets you can use and
other tools as well.
2. Teacher Planet – http://myteachertools.com – Allows you to make puzzles,
mazes, crosswords. It also has resources for teachers like rubrics, worksheets,
gradebooks, and tons more!
3. Education World – http://www.educationworld.com – This website has a
ton of interesting and helpful tools for teachers, but for this section I wanted
to list it because it has amazing templates teachers can use to communicate
with parents. From conference planners to weekly reports, field trip
permission forms, basically any kind of form you would need to send to
parents you can find on this site.
4. Scholastic – http://teacher.scholastic.com/homepagebuilder/index.htm –
Scholastic is obviously a very well known company but I found this site even
more important because it is an awesome and east way to create a classroom
webpage. It is free and you can completely customize it. Basically you design
it, then set up a username and password for parents. They have a form that
you can print with this information to send home to your students. On the site
you can list recommended books, list homework, any special announcements,
basically anything!! Great tool!!
5. Teachers Network - http://www.teachersnetwork.org/ - This is a great
networking site where teacher can visit and get lesson plans, apply for teacher
grants, view teacher blogs, etc. It just has a ton of great information for
teacher.
6. Internet4Classrooms - http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lang_elem.htm
– My area of study is Language arts. This site includes a ton of different ways
of teaching language arts and many tools for children to use. It includes
worksheets and online games to incorporate in the classroom.
7. NC Standard Course of Study -
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/languagearts/elementary/ -
This is obviously the standard course of study for language arts for elementary
schools. I listed this site because this tells me exactly what I need to teach to
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2. my students. I feel this needed to be included in my list of important teaching
websites.
8. ToonUniversity - http://www.toonuniversity.com/aol/aol_language_k2.asp
– Allows students to play interactive learning games in the area of Language
Arts for grades 1 & 2. Teaches young students about opposites,
alphabetizing, inferences, punctuation & capitalization, and abbreviations.
9. LessonPlansPage - http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAK1.htm – This site
has thousands of lesson plans available for teachers to print and use. You can
get an idea for lesson plans and then create one of your own, or use the ones
listed. You can choose the grade level and the subject and find something you
need to help teach.
10. A to Z Teacher Stuff - http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Lesson_Plans/ -
Again this is a site that offers online Language Arts lesson plans. It also offers
tips, articles, and discussions. This site would be useful if you need help
figuring out how to teach a certain topic.
11. TeAchnology - http://www.teach-
nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/computing/web_quests/language/ - This
is a webquest that provides worksheets, lesson plans, rubrics, and teacher
resources on Language Arts.
12. Lesson Plan Central -
http://lessonplancentral.com/lessons/Computers_and_Internet/Webquests/
Language_Arts/Elementary/index.htm – This site offers webquests that deal
with language arts in elementary schools. It lists a ton of different topics to
choose from.
13. Best WebQuests - http://bestwebquests.com/bwq/listarea.asp?
wqcatid=3&edid – This allows you to choose webquests in a variety of topics
for the language arts subjects. It provides detailed description of the webquests
to make it easier to choose one that will work for you.
14. WebQuests Grades 3-4 - http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/34webqu.htm –
This site provides you with webquest collections for grades 3 to 4 dealing with
language arts. It also has specific examples in grades 3 and 4.
15. WebQuest Resourse Page - http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-
ramazani/Links/webquests.htm – Provides you with webquest for a ton of
different topics, covering grades K-12. It also gives you a rubric for evaluating
webquests.
16. TeacherVision – http://www.teachervision.fen.com – This website has a ton
of information and tools for teachers to use. You do need to pay for a
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3. subscription but it would be way worth it for everything on this site. It has
lesson plans, worksheets, games, printables (bulletin boards, awards, parent
letters, etc.)
17. SuperTeacherTools - http://www.superteachertools.com/ - Again site that
provides you with games, tools, fun activities, recommendations, etc. for
teachers. You can create classroom jeopardy, who wants to be a millionaire,
you can create seating charts, etc.
18. Teacher Created Resources - http://www.teachercreated.com/ - This site
provides a ton of things for your classroom. It has a list of books that they
recommend, it also have décor you can print or use ideas for accents, awards,
bulletin boards, charts, teacher aids, etc.
19. Scholastic Book Levels -
http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/homePage.do – This is a great site to
be familiar with how to level books, or create a classroom library that is
specific for your classroom. This is important because we need our students to
want to read.
20. The Teachers Guide to Classroom Management -
http://www.theteachersguide.com/ClassManagement.htm – Classroom
management is probably one of the hardest aspects of teaching. This sites give
so many resources to help with managing your classroom. It includes
discipline strategies, tools for teachers, behavior charts, also breaks it down to
the actual behavior and how to deal with it.
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