Content Areas

Here are some great and different ways to include literacy throughout the different content areas.  

K12 Reader

This website provides resources for reading instructions and strategies. It is more informational and gives an overview of the areas under reading instruction. It also gives lesson plans and worksheets and other resources that parents and teachers can use.

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Build Your Wild Self

This website incorporates science and literacy.  Students can build their own creators through adding different body the when the students are done building their creator a description of each body is listed for the student to read and learn about their new creator.  This site also has a direct link to the New York City Zoos and Aquariums for students to learn more about different animals.  

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TALK - Technology Assisting Literacy Knowledge 

This site has great resources on how to include literacy in Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies and Special Areas.  All of them have a bunch of different and great activities! They are divided up into the different content areas and then divided up further into grade level, software needed, and all content areas involved. 

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Going on a Shape Hunt

Here is a lesson plan for going on a shape hunt - a lesson integrating math and literacy.  For grades K to 2.

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Polar Patterns - Virtual Bookshelf 

Here is a great site with lists of books to use for many different science units. The different units include Day and Night Sky, Seasons, Myths about Seasons, Cause and Effect, Aurora, and Penguins and Polar Bears

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Hands on Science and Literacy Activities

Here is a great site with many great activities which incorporate both science and literacy, focusing around solar energy. 

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Historic Novel Idea

Here is a blog with ideas to connect Social Studies and English.  This site is aimed for secondary level but a lot of the ideas can be changed into younger graders as well.

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Internet for Classrooms

Internet for classrooms provides different ideas, topics, units, and etc. for each grade level.

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Wordstash

This website will help students practice vocabulary and spelling words. The teacher can create quizzes for the students to practice on any content area they are focusing on.

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101science

On this site you can pick almost any topic on science and it will give you facts, websites, and etc. to explore.

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Stop, Drop, & Scroll

This blog is created by Grad Student this year for Pre-K to 6th grade student about fire safety.