Karen Ugarte
Web Bibliography
7-7-09
Bibliography
of Weblinks for K-3 Teachers and Students
For teachers:
This
list contains links to various databases to access printable worksheets,
interactive learning activities, ideas,
lesson
plans, links to educational sites, and more!
For students:
I
have included some of the best games and fun activities I have encountered,
organized into subject area.
Many
of these activities tie in directly with the
JENJOYJ
RESOURCES
FOR TEACHERS
For Collaboration
and Ideas:
This is the online version
of discussing lesson plans in the lunchroom!
This website is a community
page for teachers.
It offers a great collection
of lesson ideas for created by teachers, as well as discussions and blogs.
http://www.proteacher.org date
visited: 7/3/09
This website is a good resource
for teachers.
It includes printable
worksheets, lesson plans, and forums for collaboration.
It is easy to search and
navigate. The downside is that there is an annual fee of $39.95
http://www.teachervision.fen.com date
visited: 7/3/09
For Teaching
Guided 
This is a comprehensive
database of printable books for each level of guided reading.
Follow-up activities are
included. This is a great tool for teachers at schools where the book room is
looking sparse!
This is a membership based site
and there is a fee to join, but it is well-worth it.
http://www.readinga-z.com date visited: 7/3/09
GUIDED
READING LEVEL SEARCH TOOL
Just type in a title, author,
or genre to find the guided reading levels of books in a specific category.
You can also do a reverse
search by level to find books on a specific reading level.
This is a great resource for
teaching guided reading groups!
http://www.solonschools.org/gread/index.asp date
visited: 7/3/09
This is another helpful guided
reading database to search and locate books for specific reading levels.
http://registration.beavton.k12.or.us/lbdb/ date visited: 7/3/09
TEACHER
STRATEGY TOOLS TO DOWNLOAD
This quick resource offers
downloadable, printable resources for reading strategies and comprehension
strategies.
http://ndreadon.utma.com/teachertools.htm date visited: 7/3/09
UCONN LITERACY: READING
COMPREHENSION
This is a wonderful database of
resources to teach reading comprehension.
It focuses on resources to help
teach text comprehension, vocabulary, and comprehension strategies.
It also provides links to
websites students can access for comprehension practice.
http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/compre.htm#websites
date visited: 7/3/09
This website contains lesson
plans, activities, and links to other learning-based websites with a focus on
teaching the five traits of reading:
fluency, comprehension, phonics, phonemic awareness and vocabulary.
http://ndreadon.utma.com/fivetraits.htm date visited: 7/3/09
For Integrating Technology: 
This is a teacher-created database of online activities
and learning resources.
You can be browsed by grade level or topic.
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/teaching.htm date visited: 7/3/09
Tech Integration Tips and Web Links to Increase Your
Teacher Nerdiness Levels
Mrs. Smoke is an amazing
teacher with an amazing blog!
This website gives teachers information
about how to integrate technology into the classroom.
It has lots of comprehensive
“Best of” lists for teachers and free information and tools. My new favorite
website!
http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/3118203 date visited: 7/3/09
For Teaching Math: 
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIRTUAL MANIPULATIVES
This is an amazing math
resource!
Students and teachers can
access a wide variety of virtual math manipulatves and use them to solve math
problems.
Excellent way to get students
engaged in math!
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_1_t_1.html date visited: 7/3/09
FREE WORKSHEETS
FROM MATH CAFE
This website offers free
printable math worksheets for teachers, searchable by grade level or math
skill.
http://www.mathfactcafe.com/ date visited: 7/3/09
LEARNING TOOLS for Teachers and Students
General Databases for All Subjects: 
This is a wonderful database of
educational resources for students.
It also provides activities and
printables for teachers.
Most activities and learning
tools on the site are geared toward early elementary age students.
However, registration is
required at a $20.00 yearly fee.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com date visited: 7/3/09
This is a simple database of learning
activities across subjects.
It is formatted as a table and
categorized by grade level for easy navigation.
http://www.merrybee.info/subj.html date
visited: 7/3/09
This is a fun database of
learning activities amd teacher resources that spans
all subjects.
http://www.apples4theteacher.com date visited: 7/3/09
This is a great tool that has online
resources for printables, lesson plans.
It also has information and
activities for students categorized by grade level.
http://www.kidzone.ws/
date
visited: 7/3/09
This is a
wonderful directory of links to child-friendly websites and learning activities for
teachers and students.
http://www.2learn.ca/kids date visited: 7/3/09
This site includes exciting and
fun games and activities for kids in math and reading.
This website also has a great
tool for teachers and parents called the “standards finder”.
You can use the “standards
finder” to search for a specific learning goal and find a game that helps
students practice it.
http://www.funbrain.com date visited: 7/3/09
This is a comprehensive database of links to online teaching tools,
learning games and tools and kid-friendly websites.
http://www.surfnetkids.com/ date visited: 7/3/09
This is a helpful database for
reading resources provided by the international reading association.
It includes teaching tools,
online resources, and reading and phonics games for kids.
http://readwritethink.org/
date visited: 7/3/09
To Leaen and Practice 
This website is
so fun- kids will love it!
Students begin
by choosing avatars for characters.
Then, they can
plan the story elements by choosing the problem, the setting, the characters
feelings, etc.
Finally, they
will get to watch the animated avatars act out their story!
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/mystorymaker/mystorymaker.swf date visited: 7/3/09
This website
lets students use text organizers to work on various kinds of writing
activities:
Descriptive writing, persuasive writing, narrative writing, etc.
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/writingfun/writingfun.html date
visited: 7/3/09
This is a link to an online activity with various kinds of poems.
Teachers can
print the poem forms or students can fill in poems online.
http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm date visited: 7/3/09
Students
can create and print an acrostic poem.
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/ date visited: 7/3/09
This site helps
teach students about the parts of a letter.
Students can
write a friendly letter or business letter using the forms provided.
They can even
print their letter!
http://readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/ date visited: 7/3/09
This website provides great
fun phonics practice games for kids.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml date visited: 7/3/09
This site let’s
kids create their own word searches and crossword puzzles using their spelling
words!
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/spelling.htm date visited: 7/3/09
This site will
get students’ creative juices flowing with magnetic refrigerator poetry for
kids!
Students simply
drag and drop words to write a poem.
Then they can
post the poem on the wall of fame or email it to their friends and family.
http://www.magneticpoetry.com/kidspoetry/createpoem.cfm?kit=4 date visited: 7/3/09
This cool
website includes online read-alouds of well-known
popular books…
read by well-known popular actors!
http://www.storylineonline.net/
date visited: 7/3/09
To Learn and
Practice Math Skills: 
This site provides students
with an interactive 100s chart.
The activities are geared to
help with skip-counting, patterns and other math skills.
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/math/games/100-number-chart-one.html
date visited: 7/3/09
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
This amazing resource provides teachers and students with various
virtual manipulatives with which to practice math
skills.
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_1_t_1.html date visited: 7/3/09
This site includes math games
and activities for students as well as manipulatives,
links, and worksheets for teachers.
http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html date visited: 7/3/09
To Research Topics
in Social Studies and Science:
This website lets students
learn about community helpers by clicking on photos and listening to soundbites.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/ date visited: 7/3/09
This website provides a cultural and
geographical research tool.
Students are able to “tour”
various countries to learn facts, see photos, etc.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/globaltrek/ date visited: 7/3/09
This site is a children’s guide
to
It provides history, government
facts, and interactive games.
It also includes links to find
out more information about topics presented,
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/index.html date visited: 7/3/09
This website gives students the
opportunity to watch live feed from webcams located in the animals habitats at
the zoo.
There are also animal facts and
activities.
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/WebCams/default.cfm date visited: 7/3/09
Clipart and Photos for
Students and Teachers: 
This is a
directory for teachers with links to free clipart.
http://www.theteachersguide.com/Freebies.html
date visited: 7/3/09
This site provides a large database of free photos and clipart.
http://www.freeimages.com/photos/ date visited: 7/3/09
This site includes tons of free clipart for teachers
and students.
http://classroomclipart.com/ date visited: 7/3/09
More free clipart!
http://www.fundraw.com/clipart/ date visited: 7/3/09
This site has artistic and
interesting public domain photos for use by students and teachers.
http://www.photos8.com/ date visited: 7/3/09
This is a large database of photos
available for use by teachers and students.
You can browse by topic or
search.
http://www.pics4learning.com/ date
visited: 7/3/09
This site provides
science-themed drawings and photos.
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/search.html date
visited: 7/3/09