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Bloomsburg University Sites
Educational Standards' Sites
NCTM Standards' Link: Elementary National Math Standards . Middle School National Math Standards
NCTE Standards' Link: Language Arts Standards (12 standards)
NCTE Site (This website contains practices for reading and writing for both students and teachers.)
IRA Teaching Tools' Link: IRA Teaching Tools (lesson plans, booklists, and parent resources)
United States Department of Education Link: http://www.ed.gov
Berks County Standards and Benchmarks Link: http://www.berksiu.k12.pa.us/
Clearances
FBI Fingerprinting Link: FBI Fingerprinting (This site registers you to be able to be fingerprinted at a location of your choice.)
ACT 34 Link: Online Criminal Background Check Form (This is an online form, and requires a credit card and site registration.)
ACT 151 Link: Child Abuse Clearance Form (The form may be downloaded from the bottom of this link. Also a paper form of the Criminal Background check may be printed from this link.)
Insurance
Student-Pennsylvania State Education Association
(This site provides you with the ability to electronically register for liability insurance which is required for field experiences in all public schools. The cost is approximately, $30.00 per year.)
PRAXIS I and II
PRAXIS ECEE Requirements (Pdf file that shows 2008 - 2009 PRAXIS I and II requirements from PDE.)
Test Registration (You may register for testing on this site. Be sure to read the identification information prior to registering. Your registered name must match your identification.)
Praxis Practice Test Information
PLATO Directions (Helpful information with screen-shots)
PLATO (PRAXIS 1, test preparation and guides. Bloomsburg University has paid for this service, please use and inform Bonnie Burke about your success.)
Teacher Certification
College of Professional Studies Teacher Certification Link
APA Websites
http://library.bloomu.edu/apa/apastyle.pdf (On-campus, APA Web site tutorial)
http://ezproxy.bloomu.edu/login?url=http://library.bloomu.edu/apa/apastyle.pdf (Off-campus, APA Web site tutorial)
Harvard University's APA Tutorial (Auditory tutorial, however, you may turn the spoken words off) Thank you, Dr. D'Angelo!
Subject Matter
Reading Sites 
Early Childhood
Reading Rockets (Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.)
Emergent Readers (This Site would work well for young children, especially emergent readers. It covers mostly language arts skills but it does include a place to click onto shapes and numbers, as well. One feature I really liked was the language choice it gave the user – English, Spanish, German, French.)
The Virtual Vine (This is a superb site for early childhood teachers. Preschool-2nd Grade)
CIERA: The Center for the Improvement of Early Reading
(This site has material for literature and for language arts. This site also allows children who may not have literature at home to read a good piece of literature.)
Links to the 5 Big Ideas in Reading Reference: Wasburn-Moses, L. (2006, September). 25 best Internet sources for teaching reading. The Reading Teacher, 60, 70-75; and from Dr. Davene Heckman's Faculty Web Site.
Phonemic awareness games and activities
www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcompindex1.htm
Phonemic awareness activities
Early literacy screening, tools, and activities
Rhyming word activities
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/patti/k-1/activities/phonemic.html
Word and picture activities
Phonics Skills Chart
The Nonsense Word Test
Phonics assessment
Reading games rooms
Readers Theatre
Peer tutor training manual
Teaching fluency through poetry
Fluency calculator
Vocabulary instruction
Chapter books to read aloud
Vocabulary lists
Online vocabulary development
Children's Literature Web Guide
Reading challenge
Literary lessons
Reading strategies
Comprehension rubric
www.mrsmcgowan.com/reading/rubrics.htm#Comprehension
Literary Genres
Sites for the promotion and investigation of literacy
Florida Center for Reading Research
Primary and Intermediate Readers
Dibels Information
Templates (Thanks to: Shari Galgano from the Caesar Rodney School District, DE)
San Diego Quick (This site has grade-level cards and directions to administer this assessment)
Reading Conferences
Reading Conference PowerPoint (Example of how to conduct reading conferences, thanks, Tiffany!)
Reading Conferences on Audio (Numerous links to actual teacher/student conferences, thanks, Tiffany.)
Reading and Writing Conferences (Links to a wonderfully thorough set of Language Arts unit plans and resources from Saskatchewan Education in Canada.Thanks, Tiffany.)
Reader's Theatre
Reader's Theatre (Aaron Shep's free readers' theatre scripts)
Lois Walker's Site (Reader's Theatre, Riddles, and a Kid-Friendly site) No relation!
Drama Mapping (An interactive site that lets you input information and then print out the graphic organizer of your choice.)
Teaching is a Work of Heart (This site has many Reader's Theater scripts and plays for use in the classroom.)
Literature Circle Black Lines (This is a site that contains many useful handouts that assist the teacher and the student in Literature Circles.)
Teacher Web Reader's Theatre (Free downloadable scripts.) Thank you Alicia!
Teaching Heart Reader's Theatre (Numerous, free downloadable scripts, many with just a few characters.) Again, thanks Alicia for this link.
Writing
Young Authors Workshop (A site for middle school students that takes them step-by-step through the writing process. The steps used on this site are the same as those used in Writer's Workshop. There is also information for teachers on this link.)
Mandy's Tips For Teachers! (Wonderful site for reading and writing workshop information. Most of the information on this site is for 4th grade, however it can be adapted for almost any grade level.)
Story Starters (This Website gives information on starting points and steps for writing and keeping a notebook or journal.)
Creative Writing Prompts (This site will provide you with hundreds of writing prompts. Move the cursor over the numbers to view the prompts.)
National Writing Project Site (Improving Writing and Learning in the Nation's Schools)
WritingFix (Home of Interactive Writing Prompts)
Web English Teacher (This site has a variety of creative writing topics.)
Zwolle Elementary School Writing (This site has many ideas for writing in different content areas.)
Anna Maria Elementary Writing Workshop(This site has informative links for that correspond with writing workshop.)
Jefferson County Schools Write-On Project (This site has a great variety of writing prompts.)
Draw Your World (Drawing and writing lessons, with emphasis on writing practice and handwriting styles.)
Creative Writing Prompts (This site has many exciting creative writing worksheets.)
Can Teach (Creative writing activities plus hundreds of writing prompts.)
Essay Punch (This site is an interactive on-line writing tutorial.)
Brain POP (An animated educational site for kids. This site has information related to Sciene, Social Studies and English.)
First School (This site has handwriting worksheets and printables for Preschool and Kindergarten children.)
Writing DEN (This site has a "tips-o-matic" machine that will answer a writer's questions.)
Universal Publishing (This site contains workbooks in the following subject areas: Handwriting, Vocabulary, Writing Journals, Science and Math.)
Enchanted Learning (This site has a lot of information, activities, and printables, but requires a $20.00/yr. subscribtion fee.)
Flat Stanley (This link leads to Edutopia and an article about the Flat Stanley project.)
Cursive Writing Sites
Hand Writing For Kids (This website has templates of different size lines for small to large print. It also has letter and number tracing guides.)
Kidzone Cursive Writing Worksheets (This site is for third grade and up. It has printable worksheets and gives age ratings for the materials available.)
ABC Teach Directory of Handwriting (This site gives several options for handwriting practice activities.)
Cursive Handwriting Worksheet Maker (Beware that the letters do not connect in the samples you create. This may cause problems for fledgling writers of cursive.)
Pencil Pete's Cursive Writing Worksheets
Language Arts
Hot Lists - Language Arts Web (This site contains many Language Arts activities and information.)
Kim's Korner for Teacher Talk (This is a Language Arts site that is full of information for teachers.)
British Council-Learn English (LearnEnglish is a portal which links to all the British Council's websites for teachers and learners of English.)
Vocabulary, Grammar, and Comprehension (There is a lot of practice in vocabulary, grammar, and reading comprehension. The site seems best for upper elementary.)
Teacher Vision (Language Arts Games. This large collection of online games will help build skills and concepts for grades Pre-K through 12.)
Lesson Plans Page (Language Arts Lesson Plans, Ideas, Activities, Resources)
Primary Games (A vast array of Language Arts Games)
Dositey (This site has Internet based lessons, courses, exercises, worksheets, and other critical thinking activities.)
Language Arts Lesson Plans (This site is full of lesson plans for Language Arts classes.)
Language Arts Website (This website is designed with things for the middle school student. Primarily grades 5-8.)
Interactive Madlibs (Madlibs and Cloze Statements)
Read, Write, Think (This is another useful Site for teachers. There are some great ideas for lessons all focused on one of the Language Arts from kindergarten through grade 12.)
Time For Kids (This Site features Language Arts skills and provides links for specific areas of interest: biographies, journalism and news, spelling and grammar, books and authors, poetry and drama, writing reports, and foreign languages.)
The Best Site for Language Arts (This Site provides numerous topics related to Language Arts, for example, What makes a good short story? By clicking on a topic of your choice, you are taken to a Website that is related to the topic.)
Soft Schools (This site contains free language arts games.)
Busy Teacher's Cafe (This site has free language arts worksheets on topics such as grammar and phonics.)
The Teacher's Desk (Welcome to The Teacher's Desk, a resource designed for teachers of grades five and six. Please feel free to sit down, relax, and take your time browsing through the contents, a collection of lesson plan ideas and classroom activities.)
I Know That (Creative interactive word skill games. Need to download the free version of Adobe Shockwave. This site also asks for personal information, but you do not need to enter it to play.)
Teacher Vision (This site contains handouts, printables, and more.)
The Holiday Zone (Thanksgiving language arts activities.)
Poetry Sites
Poetry Place (A hotlist for poetry sites.)
Diamante Poems (An interactive site for creating and printing diamante poems)
Concrete Poems (Another interactive site for creating concrete poems and printing them, too)
Dr. Seuss Sites
The Lorax (A full-length video version of the beloved tale online and free)
Oh, The Places You'll Go (The complete story text with links to poems, biography, and bibliography)
Seussville Playground (Thanks, Casey. Here is an Early Childhood interactive play site to develop coordination, color and pattern recognition, and to enjoy.)
Grammar and Spelling Conventions
Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling (Brought to you by Purdue University's Writing Lab)
Grammar Games (This Site features grammar through playing games. It’s easy to follow and to use.)
Grammar Tests (Test your students' grammar skills with this interactive, self-correcting site.)
Grammar Gorilla (Beginning and advanced grammar games-this site is recommended by Cheyenne <age 10>, Nichlaus <age 8> and Savannah <age 6>.)
Mad Lib/Cloze Quizzes for Grammar (These Wacky Web Tales are geared for grades 3 and above. Check back monthly for new tales!)
Mindy McAdams' Spelling Test (This site lists the 50 most commonly misspelled words and lets the user perform a self-test on those words.)
Chomp Chomp - Grammar Bytes! (This site has grammar terms, handouts and exercises. Be prepared for the sound effects!)
Graphic Organizers
Tools for Reading, Writing and Thinking
Graphic Organizers at Ed Helper
Bubble Us (Free interactive graphic organizer site. One must make a login/password to save your work.)
English Language Learners (ESL) 
Printable Language Art Resources (Many helpful activities for ESLs)
MES English (This site has many free printables, and is especially good for English Language Learners.)
ESL Printables (This site has English worksheets, lesson plans, and other resources.)
Literacy Center (This site has several language options with a variety of topics for activities in each language. This site is for early childhood, but could be useful in early elementary also.)
Applied Language Solutions (This site allows the user to submit passages written in English that can then be translated into another language.)
ESL Partyland (This site has an area for both teachers and students.)
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (OELA's National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) collects, analyzes, synthesizes and disseminates information about language instruction educational programs for English language learners and related programs. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) under Title III of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001.)
Boggles World (This site has ESL flashcards and cloze activities.)
Multicultural Education (This web site contains links to annotated bibliographies of children's multicultural books appropriate for the elementary grades (kindergarten through grade six). Cultural groups currently listed include: African Americans, Chinese Americans, Latino/Hispanic Americans, Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans, Native Americans, and Korean Americans.Books are categorized by genre: realistic fiction, information (non-fiction), traditional literature, biography, historical fiction, poetry, and fantasy. Each annotation includes an approximate grade level designation, e.g., K-3, 4-6.Each link above contains related links for elementary school teachers. No attempt has been made to evaluate the literary quality of each work nor its appropriateness in terms of cultural content. It is left to teachers to determine each book's appropriateness/relevance to his/her children and curriculum.)
Miss Teacher (A site of numerous links to assist teachers in working with ELL students.)
Listening Skills
Interactive Listening Skills' Site (Flash scenarios to assist students learn to focus their listening skills.) Thanks, Elyse!
Thinking Skills
Bloom
Verb Wheel based on Bloom's Taxonomy
Vygotsky
Vygotsky Psychology (Social Development Theory)
Vygotsky and the Internet (Mathematics Education)
Vygotsky-Theory of Social Development (This site gives examples of how Vygotsky differs from Piaget.)
Bandura’s work tied to Vygotsky
Constructivist Theory: Bruner and Piaget
Bruner's Constructivist Theory
Stages of Intellectual Development (in children and teenagers)
Gardner and the Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner - Multiple Intelligences and Education
Howard Gardner's 8 Intelligences
Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences (On this website you can take a learning style test which will help you to understand how you learn. This will enable you to "develop coping strategies to compensate for your weaknesses and capitalize on your strenghts" (LdPride.net).
Thirteen Ed - Tapping into Multiple Intelligences
Theory of Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A Theory of Flow Community (Indianapolis Public Schools' cite related to the Theory of Flow)
Thinker of the Year, 2000 (A concise summary of Flow with bibiography of the author of this theory.)
Learning and Thinking Article on Flow (What is Flow and how can educators use it to cultivate talent development?)
Classroom Management
Ms. Powell's Management Ideas For Teachers (This is a great site for classroom management and teacher tips!)
Sites For Teachers (This Site is very useful for teachers – veterans and novice teachers alike. It contains information to use in preparing, implementing, assessing, and reflecting on a lesson.)
Generic Sites
Public Broadcasting Station Kids' Site (An interactive site for younger children and their parents)
Holiday Sites Galore (Kathy Schrock's site is filled with holiday history, pictures, and activities. Enjoy!)
Timeless Teacher Stuff (A website for Teachers which includes the following: Readers Theater/Language Arts Activities/sheets/Writing Prompts/High Frequency Word lists and Powerpoints/Math/Music and more)
RubiStar (This site gives you access to rubrics.)
Sites For Teachers (This website is filled with great information for teachers. There are ABC printouts, math worksheets, lesson plans and much more.)
A to Z Teacher Stuff (This site has a little bit of everything from lesson plans and teacher tips to printable worksheets and discussion forums.)
Grade Level Skills (This site has skill help for grades K-8 in all subject areas.)
Sue LeBeau's Tools for Teachers
EdHelper.com (This site contains the following topics: Reading & Writing; PK-3; Language Arts; Special Education; Foreign Languages; Math; Critical Thinking; Social Studies; Science; Art; and More.)
About.com; Education (This site contains a myriad of information related to the following categories: Arts & Literature; History; Languages; School Programs; Science; Students Resources; Teacher Resources; and Tools.)
National Geographic (This site has many topics related to the earth and it's people. There is a children's section that has games, etc.)
Technology Sites
Teacher World (Dr. Pastore's Technology Site, checkout the massive links!)
Map A Course (Dr. Ruffini's Technology Site, investigate his E-CourseMaps for further instructions related to WebQuests and Virtual Field Trips!)
Florida Educators of Technology Conference (This is a highly respected National Technology Convention that is organized by Technology Specialists in Florida.)
The Journal-Technology Horizons in Education (Each issue contains news, trends, and “how-to” features for K-12 technology decision-makers. Featured topics include networking, security, policy and advocacy, telecom, hardware/software, the smart classroom, mobile computing and wireless, eLearning, technology funding, professional development, technology support--all the important issues for administration and teaching.)
Technology & Learning- The Resourse for Education Technology Leaders
My Pod Cast (Free site for creating and posting Pod Casts.)
Scavenger Hunts
On-line Scavenger Hunts-Jennings K-12
Education World Scavenger Hunts - At the bottom a few published artcles related to Scavenger Hunts
About.com-How to make a scavenger hunt - How to and references to online Scavenger Hunts
Spartenburg School District Scavenger Hunts - How to templates and examples of online Scavenger Hunts
Vicki Blackwell's Scavenger Hunts for Kids
Mr. Philip N. Brick's Scavenger Hunts
Variety of Scavenger Hunts - various online resources for Scavenger Hunts
National Educational Programs
National Board of Pressional Teaching Standards
National Association for Gifted Children
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
WalkerWeb Resources 