Professional Online Community

The online organization that I enjoy being a part of is Scholastic.com. As a language arts teacher I often order books for my students. I like to have my own book sets in the classroom even though it is often expensive. Scholastic has the most affordable deals out there, and if you set up a teacher account you can receive bonus points and end up getting free books eventually. All you have to do is go to the website and sign up. They ask for the name of your school and can mail you books there. The website also has student activities and teaching resources so it is a good site for teachers, students, and parents.

Scholastic.com

Dr. Kathie Nunley

Dr. Nunley is one of the main figures behind the idea of having a layered curriculum. A layered curriculum is where you give different criteria for different levels of students. Therefore, to get an A you must do A work, to get a B you must do B work and to get a C you must do C work. She develops lesson plans that have different tiers to match the needs of different learners. I think her ideas are brilliant but please check them out for yourselves.

Dr. Kathie Nunley's website

Outta Ray's Head

Ray Saitz set up a great website where teachers can post their lesson plans as a resource for others. When I started teaching in 2003 I found a lot of good language arts lessons on this site. It is a great site for browsing for language arts lesson plans. There is a lot of fun material that you can adapt to your own classroom.

Outta Ray's Head

Read write think.org

This is a great website that provides quality language arts lesson plans. You can search by grade level and subject area. It is a great site for browsing for lesson ideas. It has lesson plans as well as a whole list of student materials.

readwritethink.org