6th Grade

Subject Predicate Song

Daily Grammar Website

Grammar Wheel

7th Grade

Verb-Adverb Charade

Proper Noun Gallery Walk Activity

Parts of Speech Tall Tale

What's Happening

8th Grade

The Writing Process

Compare and Contrast Chart Graphic Organizer

Verb Tenses

Dangling Modifiers

Web Cluster Chart

Movie Compare and Contrast

Movie Compare and Contrast2

Library Resources

Activities to Teach Sources of Information

Library Skills: Parts of a Book PowerPoint

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What are the best kids’ books of the past 25 years? Instructor magazine asked teachers and eminent children’s authors to vote for their favorites and announced the top 25 picture books and chapter books in the November/December issue. If your teachers are looking for inspiring titles for the classroom, check out these perennial favorites. Here are the top 10 in both categories.

PICTURE BOOKS
1. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins)
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Penguin)
3. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin)
4. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (HarperCollins)
5. Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, illustrated by
Sheila McGraw (Firefly)
6. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (HarperCollins)
7. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
(Simon & Schuster)
8. Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (Penguin)
9. The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton Mifflin)
10. Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey (Penguin)

CHAPTER BOOKS
1. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (HarperCollins)
2. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (HarperCollins)
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic)
4. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (HarperCollins)
5. Holes by Louis Sachar (FSG).
6. The Giver by Lois Lowry (Random House)
7. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
8. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (Penguin)
9. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (FSG)
10. Frindle by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster)

1. Literature Site
   http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/featuredtitles.html
   A collection of lessons and activities to accompany more than 40 children’s books.
   
   
2. CyberGuides:
   The Schools of California Online Resources for Education CyberGuides are supplementary, teacher-developed untied based on more than 150 core works of literature.
   Grades K-3: http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyk3.html
   Grades 4-5: http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy45.html
   Grades 6-8: http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy68.html
   Grades 9-12: http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy912.html
   
   
3. Fairy Tales from Far Off Lands, 4-6
   http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webunits/fairytales/title.html
   This site features a collection of Internet-based lesson plans for studying fables from around the world.
   
   
4. Learn more about Mark Twain, 6-12
   http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/
   A PBS created site to supplement the Ken Burns’ documentary on Mark Twain.
   
   
5. Mysterynet.com, 6-8
   http://www.mysterynet.com/
   This site provides lesson plans and ideas for using mysteries in the middle school classroom.
   
   
6. National Spelling Bee
   http://spellingbee.com/index.shtml
   Contains vocabulary activities for every day of the year…
   
   
7. Story Arts Online, 1-6
   http://storyarts.org/
   This site provides storytelling lesson plans and activities.
   
   
8. Academy of American Poets
   http://www.poets.org/
   This site includes biographies and photos of more than 400 poets and nearly 1,000 poems.
   
   
9. Bibliomania
   http://bibliomania.com/
   Free online literature with more than 2,000 classic texts.
   
   
10. ClueMaster, 5-12
    http://cluemaster.com/
    A free subscription service offering a collections of hundreds of puzzles.
    
    
11. Fact Monster, PK-12
    http://www.factmonster.com/
    This site contains an enormous amount of fact to use in a variety of subject areas.
    
    
12. FunBrain.com: Word Games, K-8
    http://www.funbrain.com/words.html
    Provides a wide assortment of online language arts games for students.
    
    
13. Index of Shakespeare Plays, 8-12
    http://jjorg.chem.unc.edu/personal/monroe/shakespeare/shakespeare.html
    This site contains summaries of plots for all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays.
    
    
14. Books, K-12
    http://www.scpl.lib.fl.us/kids/kids_booklists.html
    Provides recommended books for K-12 students
    
    
15. Little Explorers Picture Dictionary, PK-6
    http://www.littleexplorers.com/dictionary.html
    Online picture dictionary with more than 1,850 entries and related websites.
    
    
16. Luminarium, 9-12
    http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
    A comprehensive anthology and guide to English literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
    
    
17.  Merriam Webster Online
    http://m-w.com/
    This site allows you to look up the meanings of more than 180,000 words.
    
    
18. Paradigm Online Writing Assistant, 6-12
    http://powa.org/
    An interactive online writing guide and handbook for teachers and students.
    
    
19. Real Mother Goose
    http://trmg.designwest.com/
    This site contains a complete set of the rhymes from The Real Mother Goose.
    
    
20. Wacky Web Tales, 3-8
    http://eduplace.com/tales/
    This site asks students to fill in parts of speech to create wacky tales online.
    
    
21. World Almanac for Kids Online, 1-6
    http://worldalmanacforkids.com/
    This is a companion site for the print version of The World Almanac for Kids.
    
    
22. Your Quotation Center, 6-12
    http://cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/
    This site features a searchable database of more than 43,000 quotes from famous people.