If you want to survive in an NCLB world, you probably won't do workshop. You'll do daily test prep and drill-and-kill, and you'll be a Bad...
You can find links to a wide range of lesson plan resources related to specific novels at http://www.LessonIndex.com/
Poetry Lesson Here's a page with links to hundreds of lesson-plan resources related to poetry: http://www.lessonindex.com/beta/Poetry.htm Most...
Lots of links to "Main Idea" teaching resources at: http://www.lessonindex.com/beta/Main_Idea.htm
A "book report" is a meaningless exercise, in my opinion. Give the students a PURPOSE and an AUDIENCE. The most obvious would be for students to...
Apparently, someone is telling you to assign this work; that's the person who should explain what they meant. I assume (!) that this is part of a...
Interesting results when "Scholastic Teachers" asked (on Facebook) for suggestions for first-day read-alouds (for 5th grade): Books receiving...
You can find links to dozens of lesson-plan resources for this book at: http://www.lessonindex.com/Bud,_Not_Buddy_by_Christopher_Paul_Curtis.htm...
BookCloseouts.com -- they have an annual children's book sale where many books are 99 cents. I bought about 300 books through this sale my first...
Try exploring some of the US History links at http://lessonindex.com/beta/ -- it's a hodge-podge but there might be some useful links in there.
Lots of links to grammar resources at http://lessonindex.com/beta/
I'm not sure how creative these are, but there are 180 links to resources about literature circles, at...
Lesson Plans for Mythology You can find a collection of links to several hundred "Mythology" lesson plans & teaching guides, at...
This was my approach, too, but I think there's probably a difference between my secondary classroom and a primary classroom, where there's more...
There are really just two index pages: a "short" version (the site's home page) and the "big" (complete) version. If you're viewing the "big"...
I've made some major updates to LessonIndex.com this month, adding tens of thousands of new links to literature lesson plan resources. I invite...
Roger Ebert wrote a heartfelt attack on an abridged edition of The Great Gatsby (http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/07/_did_it_seem_to.html)....
My perspective (which lists out many of my concerns about becoming a teacher):...
There are lots of articles, blog posts, and discussions about this, but the very first place to ask is your district office: they may have...
First, does your school already use (or require) a particular solution that could meet your needs? If so, then it's probably the best solution...
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