A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature (K-2)-This lesson plan has students listen to a story, start to read the story, and then create their own stories.
America's Story-the Library of Congress provides information on the fifty states, amazing Americans, American history, and more.
Biographies: Creating a Timeline of a Life (3-5)-This lesson has students pick a person of interest and then they must create a time line of that person's life.
Houghton Mifflin Current Events-provides a news article, quiz, word game, and a place for students to share their feelings on news topics.
CyberGuides-CyberGuides are web based units developed around literature.
Dino-Mania-this site has web based book activities to study dinosaurs.
Dynamic Duo Text Talk: Examining the Content of Internet Sites (6-8)-This lesson plan has students reach and examine several internet sties, make evaluations, and share results.
Expository Escapade-Detective's Handbook-The lesson uses a variety of detective materials to create expository analysis materials.
The First Thanksgiving-provides reading materials and activities related to the First Thanksgiving.
Immigration - reading materials and activities about immigration and Ellis Island
Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research (6-8)-students use technology and the Internet to create biographies of each other.
Language Arts WebQuests - WebQuests are Internet activities that promote critical thinking in students as they solve real world tasks in an inquiry based learning environment using reading, comprehension and problem solving skills. Look under language arts and click the appropriate grade level. Literature-based WebQuests-More WebQuests
New York Times Learning Network - provides students in grades 3-12 with news summaries, daily news quiz, word of the day, test prep question of the day, daily lesson plans, news snapshot, and more.
Research Starters - allows students to read information to get ideas for starting research on a variety of topics.
Scholastic Explorers - students read and interact with information about explorers such as Native American cultures, ocean life, endangered environments, and more.
Scholastic Online Activities-students participate in a variety of online activities. Be sure to check out the More Projects section.
Surfing for ABC's Published Project-a K-1 class developed this site to help students learn to search the Internet.
Teaching Science Through Picture Books: A Rainforest Lesson (3-5)-students use a variety of reading material to examine the Rainforest.
Treasures@Sea: Exploring the Ocean through Literature-This site uses 7 different books to study the ocean.
Weaving the Threads: Integrating Poetry Annotation and Web Technology (6-8)-students analyze a poem in depth and then create a web page.
Using a Word Journal to Create a Personal Dictionary (6-8)-students keep a journal of unknown words and then create a PowerPoint presentation illustrating a number of the words.
Literacy Circles: Getting Started (3-5)-a lesson plan illustrating how to use Literature Circles in the classroom.