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Teaching Resources

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This Shelfari account is a community account shared by teachers who want to recommend great books to each other. Visit http://www.lauracandler.com or http://www.facebook.com/teachingresources for more literacy resources.
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  • Amy H

    Amy H says

    I have always taught elementary school, but am moving to seventh grade this school year. Does anyone have any suggestions for literature circle novels? I am looking to start off with ones that would fall under the theme of isolation. Any suggestions?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Patti G

    Patti G says

    Hi Paige! Congrats on 5th grade - I enjoy the kiddos at that age. My all time favorite is Sign of the Beaver. I used it for shared reading. Then it became a common text that I could refer to all year as we learned different strategies. Everything I wanted the kids to do in book clubs, I could intro or model from that text. It is so rich. Other great books for book clubs: Hatchet (great for reluctant boy readers): Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe; Bridge to Terabithia; and you actually can't go wrong with the Newberys. Here are some great authors for upper grade kids: Sharon Creech, Barbara Park, Gary Paulsen, Lloyd Alexander; Brian Jacques; Betsy Byars, Lois Lowry, Avi, Virginia Hamilton, Cornelia Funke (love all of her books!!!), Jerry Spinelli, Laurence Yep, and Patricia Reilly Giff. For lower reluctant readers in a book club or lit circles, the fantasy series, Deltorra is good. I found lots of kids like fantasy books but their reading level is higher. The Deltorra series turned on 3 nonreaders and they scavenged the whole series and beyond! haha. Read Alouds: Walk Two Moons, A Wrinkle in Time, and for the end of the year as it is more mature - The Giver. Also, my kids really loved The Thief Lord and The Lightening Thief. Lastly, I used a lot of picture books for Read Alouds as so many are actually for older kids. I'm a huge Chris Van Allsburg fan. If you ask your librarian, I'm sure he/she will point you to some great picture books and if I come across any that I used, I'll post them/put them on my shelf. I tried to put a few of the most useful websites below - use or lose. :) Have a great year!

    A couple of good resources for you besides Laura Candler's (she has a huge collection of ideas) are:
    Writing: http://www.writingfun.com/

    3rd gr. teacher w/ good ideas: http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/
    http://quest.carnegiefoundation.org/~dpointer/jennifermyers/workshopapproach.htm
    http://www.powayusd.com/projects/EdTechCentralnew/LanguageArts.htm#High_Frequency_Words_
    Hm reading series: http://www.smbsd.org/page.cfm?p=35

    Powerpoints - a great start even if you modify them:
    http://teach.fcps.net/trt14/Power%20Point%20Games/power_point_games.htm
    http://www.worldofteaching.com/
    http://www.pppst.com/
    http://jc-schools.net/ppts-la.html#Grades%20K-5

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Mr. Stortz's Class

    Mr. Stortz's Class says

    Thanks for making this! I'm looking forward to it.

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  • Waida

    Waida says

    I use Shelfari currently but what a great idea to use it among teachers and or students.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )

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