Reading Web Links

Access K-12 Scaffold of the Common Core State Standards
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Knowing the Common Core skills for your grade level isn't enough. Looking at the skills as they develop over the grades is essential. The IDOE posted a link to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction site. They developed a skill scaffold for the Common Core State Standards. [read more...]

Picture Book Website
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

A great site that identifies teachers’ favorite picture books for working with the 6 Traits. Each set of titles is not only sorted by trait but also identifies those better for primary or the intermediate/secondary grades. [read more...]

Utilize the Internet for Free Audio Books
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

For the classroom teacher who doesn’t have books on CD readily available, check out these two favorite websites that include authors and actors reading aloud popular children’s literature includes numerous poems written and then [read more...]

Picture Book of the Day
Friday, September 12, 2008

Would you like to have a chance to hear about a different picture book every day? Anastasia Suen provides a daily blog with just that--a new picture book every day! And she provides a 6-Traits connection for every book. [read more...]

Websites with Mini-Lessons and Strategies for Reading
Friday, September 12, 2008

Need some extra reading mini-lesson ideas? Here are three websites that offer a multitude of mini-lesson and teaching strategy ideas for reading and so much more. Check out the first website for tons of free literacy resources.[read more...]

Seek Magazines with Short Nonfiction Passages
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Students face multiple reading passages on the state assessment. Not only are there multiple choice and open-ended questions that follow the reading selections, but students must also write to an extended-response prompt. This requires [read more...]