Teacher Resources
Odds Bodkin Storyteller
Listen to famous storyteller Odds Bodkin read his books!
DTLK Alphabuddies
This is not an alphabetical listing of all the crafts on the site, but instead is a group of crafts designed to help teach children their ABC's.
Phonics
Phonetic Awareness worksheets
Billy Bear
Printable Math sheets
Handwriting Worksheet Maker
Creates worksheets to practice handwriting for the early grades
US Department of Education
Thousands of educators visit this site to stay up-to-the-minute with current changes in education.
The Global Schoolhouse
This site provides the training wheels to get you started! You can share, prepare or compare on this site. It is excellent!
Busy Teacher's Web Site
This site is designed to provide teachers with direct source materials,
lesson plans, and classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking.
Internet Connections
The Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning share the common mission of making a
difference in the quality of education and learning for all through excellence in applied research, product development, and service. This is the place to find resources!
Activities For Computer Applications
A complete curriculum for computer applications is available here to download.
Projects include spreadsheets, database applications, graphics, word processing, desktop publishing,
PowerPoint, career-related research and design, and web page design.
Powerpoint Tutorial
Step-by-step, this online tutorial takes your students through the process of
creating their own PowerPoint presentation. Once the basics are mastered, they can select further instructions on how to add slides, change attributes, etc.
Graphic Organizers
Whatever kind of printable graphic organizer you are looking for, chances are you will find it here.
Idea wheels, fact and opinion charts, clusters, observation charts, planning charts, four column charts... they're all included.
Microsoft Office Activities
Some of the included materials include making fortune tellers (or cootie catchers), mini books,
and fact flippers (in PowerPoint), as well as posters from Excel, and more!
Click on the 'Resources' tab and then scroll down the page to the 'Tutorials for Teacher Tools' section.
Templates for Teachers from Microsoft
There are a lot of great templates for teachers to use on the Microsoft website.
All you do is download the template you want and then you can add information into it.
There are ones for classroom management, parent communication, awards, etc.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Wonderful list of sites for educators.
Shape book patterns
Choose them with or without primary writing lines, choose a treasure chest, a rainbow,
mittens, an apple for fall, or how about a barn? Download and print your own student mini-books here for class writing exercises.
Google Educators
teacher's guide to 12 Google products such as online books, videos, maps...etc.
Classroom Grading Aid
Print out the chart and keep it handy to help grade student assignments.
Assessment Generator
No matter what the class or student project is that you need to assess, you will probably find a
rubric here to fit the assignment. Choices include customized four point matrix rubrics, criteria checklists, discussion checklists, and rating scales.
Spelling Rules Handout
Here is a handy spelling rules handout you can hang up in your classroom!
