Tools for Teachers
Enhance your classroom and lessons with these Web tools.
A free web application that enables users to create interactive
web-based study flash cards and share them with others. Flash
cards can be printed, or saved and used online.
Flashcard Machine
The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic
strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and
postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).
Comic Creator
This tool allows students to create their own character cards,
which they can then print off, illustrate, and trade or keep. It
can be used with characters in a book students are reading or as
a prewriting exercise
Character Trading Cards
Students can select shapes from four different themes: Nature,
School, Sports, and Celebrations and create a shape poem.
Shape Poem
Create your own customized motivational posters. Upload your own
photo and turn it into an inspirational message for your class.
Motivational Posters
Create "word clouds" turning words into art.
Wordle
Extensive Teacher's Guides are now available for many Sleeping
Bear Press books. They have guides for most of their Alphabet
Book Series (ex: A is For America) as well as many of their
other books.
Sleeping Bear Press
Thousands of lessons are available at this site provided by the
International Reading Association and the National Council of
Teachers of English.
Read Write Think
Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards—and
to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that
bring them to life.
National Geographic Xpeditions
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