Appropriate Web Sites:

Family Education Network This site offers lesson plans, printable literature, themes, assessment ideas and online student acitivities! In addition, you can buy grade level appropriate books from this site. Also, FREE for teachers, they have quizzes, worksheets, newsletters and book samples.

Children's Literature Web Guide This is a wonderful listing of children's authors and illustrators, sectioned alphabetically. The site is particularly cool because it links to the author's home webpage, if they have one.

 

Example Lesson Plans:

The Laws of Life This can be used for both Language Arts and Social Studies. Click here for a grade level appropriate version of this lesson.

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang.html An extensive list of lesson plans for Language Arts, grades 3-5. The list includes great lessons like : Whole Language Experience using Casey and the Bat, Busy as a Bee, (working with similes) and An Irritating Creature (a poetry lesson.)