Online Resources (for us all):

Reading Strategies

RUBRICS 

TECH HELP

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Other Resources: 

• Catawba County Teacher Resources http://www.catawbaschools.net/Teacher_Resources/ms_english.aspx If it asks for a password, just keep clicking cancel.
• Great Middle School Collection of Projects http://sms.iwcs.k12.va.us/iprojectprojects/iproject.html

Smartboard Applications

•  http://exchange.smarttech.com/index.html
• ReadWriteThink  http://www.readwritethink.org/search/?resource_type=16 Interactive activities
• Annennberg Learner http://www.learner.org/interactives/

Reading Across the Content

• http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/content_area_literacy/ Great strategies including graphic organizers with directions for implementing.
• http://www.awesomestories.com/ As good as SAS in Schools and also free! with no complicated log in. It has interactive cross-curricular stories that are broken down into chapters. Great for students with a set of laptops!
• http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/adlit/ Mainly focuses on Science and Social Stuides resources with a good toolkit of "Key Literacy Strategies."
• Reading Lady  http://www.readinglady.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=2&MMN_position=4:4 Tons of reading strategies
• Reading Rockets  http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/ Literacy strategies for any type of reading.

LITERATURE CIRCLES 

•  http://faculty.rcoe.appstate.edu/smithtw/Literature%20Circles/litcirclerolelist.htm
• http://www.lauracandler.com/strategies/litcirclemodels.php#LitCircleswithRoles Several useful links with role descriptions, templates for worksheets for fiction and nonfiction 

Webquest Resources:

• Thematic Pathfinders http://42explore.com/index.htm
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For Non-fiction

• Cause and Effect Graphics  http://web001.greece.k12.ny.us/files/filesystem/causeandeffect.pdf
• Skyways  http://skyways.lib.ks.us/tricon/2005/handouts/nonfiction_text.pdf
• Stop a Toppling Tower Lesson Plan  http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=232

Research

• Bloom's Taxonomy  http://kathyschrock.net/googleblooms/

Lesson Plans

•  Free Multimedia Resources from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/Education/en-us/teachers/plans/Pages/index.aspx
•  http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
•  http://www.internet4classrooms.com/
•  http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/littech.htm Literacy + Teachnology ideas
•  http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/reading-ms.html Reading Misc
•  http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm You can checkout more great sites here!