K-2 Educator Internet Links

K - 2 Educator Internet Links

General Resources | Lesson Plans

General Resources

K - 2 Interactives
Online games for Language Arts, Math, Fine Arts, Social Studies and more.
The LiteracyCenter.net
The LiteracyCenter is an open and free forum where parents and teachers can find professionally designed educational material to share with their children.
ReadWriteThink
This Thinkfinity partner site provides the highest quality practices and resources in Reading and Language Arts instruction.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Learning and understanding mathematics, at every level, requires student engagement. This library of interactive activities help students understand mathematical concepts.
Learn to Read at Starfall
A free web site to teach children to read. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Contains exciting interactive books and phonics games.
Just for me Stories
To help spark your child's interest in reading, Nick Jr. television and NickJr.com have created Just for Me Stories, online animated books read aloud by Spike Lee, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, and Sandra Bernhard.
List of Storybook Sites
The Internet provides quite a few online stories with illustrations.
Storyplace
You can find stories for preschool and elementary levels in English and Spanish.
Interactive Story Mapping
In this student interactive from ReadWriteThink, a set of graphic organizers is provided to assist teachers and students in prewriting and postreading activities.
Dolch Basic Words List
The Dolch words are the 220 most frequently found words in books that children read. Many of these words cannot be sounded out because they do not follow decoding rules, so they must be learned as sight words. Use this list to make flashcards, bingo games, or matching games to practice the words.
Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
Create a tailored list of quality children's books based on your criteria such as ethnicity, gender, period, location, and others, or view lists of forty-nine (49) children's literature awards and their winners.
Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University
You or your students can search for books by subject, author, or keyword. The results will supply you with the title, author, publisher, and a brief summary of the book.
Graphic Organizer Generators
Instantly create printable worksheets to practice working with timelines, Venn diagrams and more.
Bright Ideas for Writing
Here are some writing prompts that include photos.
The Super3: Working with the Very Youngest
The Super3 contains the same basic elements as the Big6, but makes the language and the concepts a little simpler and easier for younger students to understand.
Four Block® Literacy Program
Pam Cummingham's Four-Blocks® Framework incorporates on a daily basis four different approaches to teaching children to read - Guided Reading, Self-Selected Reading, Writing, and Working with Words.

Lesson Plans

USOE Approved K, 1, 2 Lesson Plans
These lesson plans were created by Utah educators and approved by the Utah State Office of Education.

The Gateway to Educational Materials
Search for plans at GEM, a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

Arthur Activities
You can find hundreds of activities based on ARTHUR episodes. In addition, here is a collection of lesson plans designed to introduce kids to a variety of media literacy themes. (Note: The lesson plans are PDF downloadable files.)

Thinkfinity Search
The Thinkfinity partners offer high quality resources and lesson plans for all grade levels. Don't miss the Build Your Community, and the Begin with Buttons lesson plans.