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Classroom Tips, Tricks, and Resources | |||
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AAC Intervention |
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Caroline Musselwhite, Ph.D., CCC-SLP and Julie Maro, M.S., CCC-SLP present monthly tips regarding Augmentative and Alternative communication intervention in addition to resources specific to the field of assistive technology.
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abcteach: Shape Books |
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Free printable patterns and coloring pages including animals, nature, shapes, sports, traffic signs, and much more. FREE ready-made skill books, poem forms, or make your own worksheets, word wall words, and report covers. Members section offers more options.
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Afterschool.Gov |
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A collection of websites for kids and teens, intended to provide information, educational activities, and support in a variety of subjects and topics.
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Alphabet Soup |
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Thematic and holiday units, games, teacher and therapist resources, crafts.
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Amanda's Mnemonics Page |
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Mnemonics that are grouped by categories (including spelling and grammar categories). Helps older students retain newly learned skills.
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Animation Factory |
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Free 3D Clipart, animations and PowerPoint templates, easy to use, fun and educational.
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A-Z Clip Art Topics |
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Alphabetical list of graphics and clipart.
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A to Z Kid Stuff |
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Offers free lessons and special days and events activities for toddlers, preschoolers, and school-aged children. Downloadable therapy/teacher materials, ebooks, themes, eworksheets, calendars, recipes and more.
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A to Z Teacher Stuff |
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200 original lesson plans, 50+ teaching themes, resources for building thematic units & finding seasonal activities, teacher tips, discussion boards, articles, educational sites, printables, and more.
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Beyond Play |
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Focus on early intervention products for preschool and the cognitively young for occupational therapists, physical therapists, developmental specialists, and speech-language pathologists. Products include active and adaptive play, bubble toys, cause and effect, children's books, dramatic play, early exploration, fine motor, furniture, language, musical toys, oral motor, positioning, puzzles, rattles and teethers, sensory. sorting and stacking, and other professional resources. |
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Bloom's Taxonomy |
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Chart arranges Bloom\\\'s levels of cognitive activity in a grid from simple to complex, and it lists a number of verbs describing the activities for each mode of thinking. Can by used to vary the level difficulty when creating activities/assignments.
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Books That Touch |
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Site provides experiential books from parents and others who live, first hand, the challeges of working with children on the autism spectrum.
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Brainpop |
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Features Math, English, Science, Social Studies, Health, and Technology topics for grades K - 8. Developed according to national standards (NCTM, NSES, & NCTE), BrainPOP's hundreds of topics present students with an engaging, enlightening, and entertaining view of a given subject. Each topic combines a 2-4 minute animated movie, along with various features such as interactive quizzes, experiments, timelines, how-to segments, comic strips, and printable activity pages to help present the subject.
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Calico Cookie Kindergarten |
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Teacher's webpage contains ideas for parents and teacher's. In the teacher's section at the bottom is a link to PowerPoint Collection which includes activites appropriate for grades P-1 or for the cognitively young.
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Can Teach |
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Lesson plans, elementary resources (ELL, songs and poems, games, recipes, classroom management, subject domains and personal planning), related links and discussion lists.
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Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site |
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Collection of reviews of children's books, ideas for how to use them in the classroom, and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
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Children's Storybooks Online |
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A collection of stories for young children, older children, and young adults some with animation and activities.
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Classroom Clipart |
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Collection of classroom clipart by category.
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Clipart Connection |
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Free clipart & animations:clothes, construction, food, kids, money, music, objects, space, travel, animals, and holidays.
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Communipack |
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The Communipack is a multipurpose communications system from Adaptive Creations, that can be used with Velcro-backed photographs, picture communication symbols of written words. Can be used for visual scheduling, conversations, remnants, grocery shopping ,ordering from restaurants, etc. giving the individual some choice in their activities of daily living. (Symbols not included) |
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Creative Communicating (Patti King-DeBaun) |
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Creative Communicating promotes products and services for special educators, therapists, parents, children and students. Products include teacher resource manuals, videos, puppets, software programs, adaptive equipment, engineering materials, workshops and on-line courses.
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Dinosaur Resources for K-12 |
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Dinosaur and other prehistoric animal resources for grades K-12. Alphabetical extensive listing of curriculum related materials.
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Discovery Channel School Clipart Gallery |
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Free clipart and animated graphics for home or school: art, awards, food, fun & games, health & safety, language arts, letters & numbers, logos & mascots, math, music, science, seasons & holidays, social studies, special events, sports, students, teachers, and technology.
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DLTK's Educational Activities |
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Printable mini-books. Plus printable resources for ABC's, 123's, shapes, colors, sentence sequencing, scissor skills and story sequencing.
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DLTK's Printable Crafts for Kids |
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Features a variety of printable children's crafts, coloring pages, and projects for holidays, educational themes, and children's favorite cartoon characters.
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Do 2 Learn (autism and learning disability child education) |
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Activities to promote independence in individuals with special learning needs. Downloadable games, therapy materials (including AT and AAC), and informational resources.
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Dr. Jean: Songs and Activities for Young Children |
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Classroom monthly activities and materials available for download appropriate for preschool through grade 2 and for the cognitively young.
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Early Childhood and Kindergarten |
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Alphabetical listing of themes on any topic related to early childhood, preschool, and primary education. Also appropriate for those children with disabilities who are older but cognitively young.
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Early Childhood Thematic Units |
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Downloadable early childhood thematic units that incorporate technology throughout the curriculum.
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edHelper.com |
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This site is designed for teachers and therapists. Free worksheets, over 10,000 searchable lesson plans, webquests educational programs, and more. Spelling and vocabulary tools.
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eThemes |
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eThemes resources alphabetically listed by topic. Extensive lists some including video and animated sources. Also, link to eThemes resources by grade level.
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First - School |
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Features free preschool lesson plans, educational early childhood activities, printable crafts, worksheets, calendar of events and other resources appropriate for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten level (ages 2 to 6). Also appropriate for ELL learners and the cognitively young.
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Game Goo |
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Game Goo: interactive kid games. There a couple of really cute games for antonym identification, phonemic awareness, spelling, grammar. Games are leveled beginner/intermediate/advanced; however, most of these are very low-level games for K-2.
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Ghost Forest |
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A lot of free educational games, screen savers, desktop wallpapers, coloring books, jigsaw puzzles, comics and cartoons. Plus a children's fantasy novel .
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Google Images |
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Looking for a drawing, photo, or other image? Try this gallery of images. Make sure you put the Safe Search on. Recommeded by TEAM Ed staff. |
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Grade One Central |
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Free lesson plans, teaching ideas and resources for the Grade One Curriculum. |
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Handwriting Without Tears |
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Handwriting program which is developmental based and uses a multisensory approach. Available in readiness, printing, and cursive. Site also offers tips for teachers, helpful hints for therapists, home program, and tips for administrators.
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Holidays Around the World for K-12 |
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Comprehensive list of holiday activities for teachers, therapists, librarians, parents and students. Also links to comprehensive list of holiday music.
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Inspiration Sites |
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Consultant Meg Ormiston of Tech Teachers compiled this library of sites sharing Inspiration templates.
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Integrations |
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Features products for children with learning and sensory issues. Site also provides discussion groups, "bright ideas" articles, and special needs links. |
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Internet4Classroom |
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| A free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials. | ||||
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Intervention Central |
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Intervention strategies for general academics, motivation, reading fluency, reading comprehension, writing, math, developmental disabilities, classroom management, behavioral intervention, bully prevention, making rewards work.
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Jan Brett's Home Page - A Great Place for Ideas |
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Alphabetical listing of classroom activities available for download: art, literacy, math, phonograms, sight words, holiday, and many more.
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Judy and David's On-Line Songbook |
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Alphabetical listing of children's songs. Music and movement can be used for teaching basic concepts.
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Kinder Hive |
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Parent and teacher resources appropriate for preschool through grade 1. Units and themes, classroom pictures, technology ideas, projects, instructional games, bulletin boards and more.
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Kinder Korner |
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Thematics units, products, and mailing list for preschool through grade 2 teachers. Share ideas, ask questions, get support from others interested in working with young children.
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Kinder Pond |
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Information and resources for preschool through grade 1 including themes, units, center ideas, discovery packs, homework ideas, and links.
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Learning Magic Inc. |
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Specializes in the development of supplemental core curriculum activities and templates. Products are rich in content and provide a wide range of subject matter and accessibility alternatives for a wide range of students.
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Learning Page |
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Provides a huge collection of instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and more. Start by checking out the free samples. Recommended by TEAM Ed staff. |
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Linda Burkhart |
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Linda Burkhart has designed a website focusing on integrating technology into various classroom levels. Numerous tips, resources and links designed to effectively use technology.
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LinguaSystems |
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Assessment and therapy materials on a variety of topics, including but not limited to, apraxia, articulation & phonology, autism & PDD, Concepts, dysarthria, dysphagia, fluency, grammar & syntax, language & thinking, listening & auditory processing, math language, memory, nonverbal learning intelligence, oral-motor, phonological awareness, reading, resources & reference materials, sequencing, social & pragmatic skills, spelling, study & test taking, syndromes, tests and profiles, vocabulary and semantics, voice, and writing and punctuation. |
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Literacy Center |
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Free interactive literacy lessons for early childhood development offered in English, Spanish, German, and French.
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Math Goodies |
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| Math Goodies is a math help site featuring interactive. activities for students, teachers and parents with lessons, homework help, worksheets and forums. | ||||
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Mayer-Johnson: Ready Made Downloads |
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Activities, templates, and ready-made boardmaker file downloads.
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Mrs. Alphabet - Anne Lynch |
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Children's books, certificates, learning tools, and educational materials to assist children with early learning and progress in alphabet recognition, phonics, beginning reading math and more. |
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Mrs. Anderson's Kindergarten |
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Kindergarten thematic units and early childhood resources, themes, lesson plans, calendar ideas, literacy ideas, learning centers, music, and special needs links.
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Neurodiversity.com |
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Collection of various state department of education documents on autism. Excellent resource for in depth articles on best practices from evaluation to program development. |
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News-2-You |
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A weekly on-line newspaper for beginning readers and individuals with special needs.
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Open Court Resources |
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Free chants, picture files, lesson plans, discussion board and unit related links by grade level.
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OT Exchange |
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Consists of documents submitted by Occupational Therapists, message boards, and useful links. Also includes chatrooms to discuss topics affecting pediatric OT.
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Patti's Electronic Classroom |
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Activities to extend phonemic awareness concepts and skills: rhyming words, syllable segmentation, beginning sound substitution, sound isolation, and phonemic segmentation.
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Perpetual Preschool |
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Age appropriate early childhood themes, lesson plans, and classroom ideas, discussion boards, games, and more.
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Pics4Learning |
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Free image library for teachers and students with lesson plans and ideas for using digital images in the curriculum..
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Pocket Full of Therapy |
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Provides occupational therapy products. ask the therapists, and an idea exchange. Site created and maintained by two occupational therapists.
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PowerPoint Collection (Jefferson County Schools) |
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Extensive list of teacher created downloadable PowerPoint activities appropriate for preschool through grade 12.
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Preschool by Stormie |
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Information and ideas for early childhood educators, therapists, and parents include monthly themes, lesson plan forms and tips, activities, and a section on teacher preparation which includes many useful tips, especially the section on behavior management written by a special educator.
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Preschool Printables |
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Preschool printable activites include lesson plans, file folder activities, calendars, games, bulletin boards, center signs, felt board stories, finger puppets, sticker charts, and awards. Some are free; other on CD for purchase.
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ProEd On-Line |
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Publisher of standardized tests, resource and reference texts, curricular and therapy materials, and professional journals covering: speech, language and hearing; psychology and counseling; special education; early childhood intervention; and occupational and physical therapy. |
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Proteacher |
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Information and resources appropriate for preschool through grade 6 including networking and support, teaching practices, classroom management, child development, special needs, reading and language arts, humanities, social studies, mathematics, science and technology.
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Puzzle Maker |
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Create your own printable puzzles using the drop-down menu! You can use your own vocabulary to make word finds, crosswords, and more. Great for working on vocab, antonyms/synonyms, categorization,.....etc.
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Reading and Technology |
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Interactive website allows students to explore, hear, and amnipulate phonemes as they construct meaning about how language works.
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Reading A-Z |
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Offers printable teacher materials to teach guided reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, alphabet, and vocabulary. The teaching resources include professionally developed downloadable leveled books, lesson plans, worksheets, and reading assessments. Children's books and lessons are appropriate for K-6, ESL/ELL, special education, and remedial reading. Can download 30 free sample books. Annual fee per classroom is $49.95.
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Read Write Think |
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This interactive site provides useful tools to be used to develop literacy skills. Offers a collection of online student materials, lesson plans and supports for K-12. Recommended by TEAM Ed staff. |
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Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic |
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Library contains 104,000 titles in a broad variety of subjects, from literature and history to math and the sciences, at all academic levels, kindergarten through post-graduate and professional. Anyone with a documented disability, including a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability is eligible to use RFB&D. Need to become a member. Two types of membership: individual and institutional. Students may join as individual members or become a member through their school. |
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RHL School |
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| Ready to use materials for reading comprehension, math, English, and research skills. Answer keys are supplied free by e-mail. | ||||
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SPD Network (Sensory Processing Disorder) |
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Resources for therapists, teachers, physicians, researchers, parents and caregivers who work with children, adolescents, and adults with Sensory Processing Disorder. Site features general information, an SPD resource directory, scientific research, conferences and workshops, and therapeutic equipment and other therapy resources. |
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States and Capitals |
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| Maps, Worksheets, Flashcards, and more. Teaching and homework help resource for state report assignments. State flags, songs, symbols. This site is a resource of state information for students, teachers, and their parents. | ||||
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Stock.Xchng |
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Contains over 100,000 free quality photos. Recommended by TEAM Ed staff. |
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SymbolWorld |
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"SymbolWorld is a non-commercial website, providing safe, fun and easy to use on-line resources for symbol users. The ideas on the site have come from people with learning difficulties, their teachers and carers."
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TeacherNet |
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Lesson plans, therapist/teacher resources, grants, virtual field trips, Idea a Day activities, classroom webpages, Teacher's Pit (comic), and bulletin boards.
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Teaching Vocabulary with Kidspiration |
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Kidspiration is an easy-to-use program that helps students K-5 see, organize, and develop their ideas. Here is a collection of basic Kidspiration Templates for the early learner. Click on each link to download a folder of activities.
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The Educators Network |
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| Worksheets, lesson pans, thematic units, rubrics, and interactive tools for the classroom. | ||||
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The Kcrew |
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Four kindergarten teachers developed the original ideas on this site (now two K-teachrs). Ideas use the balanced literacy approach along with phonics instruction. Contains thematic units, centers resources, parent involvement, projects, and a newsletter.
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The Speech Bin |
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Resource for books, computer software, tests, and materials for children of all levels with special needs iin the area of speech, language, hearing and listening, voice, autism, sensory-motor, cleft palate, aphasia, and swallowing.
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The Teacher Files: Clipart |
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Educational clipart by category.
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The Virtual Vine |
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Resource for early childhood teachers and therapists, preschool through second grade, and the cognitively young. Ideas and activities, themes and units, displays, literacy and math connections, tips, benchmarks, and links. |
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Tin Snips |
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Tin Snips : This is a web site provides special ed info, cool links, and various activities (songs, communication boards, worksheets, recipes with symbols, etc.,) for teachers and parents. The focus is autism spectrum disorders, but many of the ideas on this site can be used with SLI and young LD students as well.
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Virginia Educators Share Activities |
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Teachers at Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools created these great Inspiration and Kidspiration templates on topics ranging from the branches of government to the elements of a story.
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Wikki Stix |
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Creative, hands-on waxed yarn used by educators, therapists, and others who want to provide tactile learning for preschool through high school students who need kinesthetic feedback to assist with learning skills.
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Yahoo Images |
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Looking for a drawing, photo, or other image? Try this gallery of images. Make sure you put the Safe Search on. Recommended by TEAM Ed staff. |
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Community Resources | |||
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Disabilities | |||
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Federal Government | |||
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Professional Resources | |||
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Special Education Law | |||
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