Library Resources for Teachers

Librarian: Carole Renca  Assistant: Anita Allen

Testing Results (NECAP, VCAT, Measured Progress)

Department of Education NECAP  Assessment: State and National Data

VCAT ~ Burlington Comprehensive Assessment Tool

Measured Progress  measuredprogress.org  

"Measured Progress offers state-of-the-art K-12 assessment and professional development programs that help improve the achievement of schoolchildren nationwide and demonstrate that every child can learn. A not-for-profit organization"

 

    Teenreads.com    http://www.teenreads.com/  

This site contains all kinds of resources that relate to young adult books-reviews, news about awards, recently published books and books that are coming soon, discussion questions for book groups, author information and more.  ~ Bonnie Johnson-Aten

 
EMS Literature Guide for Teachers
This guide includes book titles, respective reading levels, author, related media and genre for students.  All books are available through the library or Special Education resources. The books selected range between a second and fifth grade reading level.

Select Literature Guide for a complete list

Bullying Book List

Middle School Realistic Fiction   Theme: Bullying   

Great Web Sites for Lesson Planning

The Educator's Reference Desk  http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml

Education World    http://www.educationworld.com/ 

Carol Hurst’s Children  Literature Guide  http://www.carolhurst.com/   

Cyberguides: Teacher Guides and Student Activities  S.C.O.R.E. CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature.  http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html 

Kathy Schrocks Guide for Educators  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ 

Scholastic http://teacher.scholastic.com/

 Vandergrift's Children’s Literature Page  http://scils.rutgers.edu/%7Ekvander/   

 

Fry's Readability Graph and Directions 
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/fry/fry.pdf   A printable PDF document for determining readability levels of writing.  Edward Fry, formerly of the Rutgers University Reading Center, created one of the most widely used, and easy-to-use readability graphs for educators. This information was obtained from the Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators web site.

 

Graphic Organizers

Great sites for printable graphic organizers for every subject!

http://region15.org/curriculum/graphicorg.html    Available in both Microsoft word and Acrobat Reader  as well as in English and Spanish.

http://eduplace.com/graphicorganizer    Houghton Mifflin's "Education Place" site 

Writing Contests for Kids  ~ SmartWriters.com
These are great sites for anyone who writes, reads and teaches literature to kids.  Information is included about contests and places to submit student writing.

http://www.smartwriters.com/index.2ts?page=contestsforkids  

http://www.smartwriters.com/index.2ts?page=youngwriters  

The BIG 6  ~ A Research Process outline for Teachers

 The BIG 6

Research Outline

Teacher Research Information 

Hoax Web Sites

Also: http://www.d-b.net/dti/

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

The "Big6" is copyright 1987 Michael B. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz. For more information, visit: www.big6.com

 Created especially for EMS Teachers 2008 ~  Carole Renca ~ Librarian  crenca@bsdvt.org