Links of Interest

• Africanna.com   A division of Huffington Post: The Internet Newspaper. Clicking on Front Page will lead you to the main newspaper.
• ALA/ALSC Great Web Sites for Kids A list of sites selected by the Association for Library Service to Children.
• ALA/ALSC Great Web Sites for Kids Selection Criteria  The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association provides links for children, including a web site of the month.
• Bookwire "Bookwire makes it easier for people to discover, evaluate, order, and experience books. Powered by Bowker's Books in Print® database, Bookwire makes it easy to search and discover over 20 million book titles, including print, e-books, audio books and more." (Book Wire, 2011)
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: "This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics."
• Children's Literature Web Guide, The  Internet Resources Related to Books for Children and Young Adults.
• Common Sense Media: An excellent site for reviewing books and other media.
• CNN News site.
• Education Week  Source for educational trends.
• Filamentality Create electronic HotLists, Treasure Hunts, WebQuests, Multimedia Scrapbooks, or Subject Samplers. Find out what these are here.
• Philly.com Local news from the Inquirer and the Daily News.
• Reading Online This is a free publication of the International Reading Association, focusing on literacy practice and research.
• USA Today News Site
• Weebly.com A website creation software. Stop in to see the librarian who will help get you started!

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Professional Development Resources

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Lesson Plan Help Sites

• PA Department of Education Standards Aligned System The Core Curriculum online.

• Discovery Education

• Education Place

• Education World 

• Franklin Institute

• FreePrintable.net

• HotChalk's Lesson Plans Page 

• Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies

• LessonPlanz.com 

• Math.com
  

• QuizStar 

• RHL School
  

 

• RubiStar Rubrics 

• Social Studies 

• EBSCO Publishing - Teacher Reference Center (TRC) Part of Power Library

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• Teacher's Corner

• Teacher's.Net

• TeAch-nology  

• Zanor-Bloser's Lesson Plan Library

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