This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient strategy for the conducting of literature circles. Downloadable tent cards are provided for the following literature circle member roles: recorder, facilitator, summarizer, and...

This website is an excellent resource for teaching with primary sources. This resource features Holocaust lessons, lesson plan strategies, and podcasts.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides test taking strategies. Students will find strategies to use before, during, and after test taking.

Teach students to summarize nonfiction text with these lesson plans. Includes worksheets and activities that can be downloaded and printed.

This tutorial site for NetPBL (Networked Project-Based Learning) offers guidance for developing collaborative learning.

This is the Arabic language version of a study skills site also available in English and other languages as well. Different sections teach skills in reading and writing, Internet literacy, critical thinking, math, science, dealing with...

Contains plans for one 60-minute lesson that teaches about a reading strategy called Character Perspective Charting. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to...

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free spelling strategy sheets. Students will be able to refer to spelling reference sheets and follow the spelling tips.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a test taking strategy. Students will engage in underlining as they preview directions and texts. Students can continue with this strategy as they read.

Sometimes teaching students about creating definitions is difficult because they do not understand about multiple meanings or depth in meaning. This is a chance to teach students, using the concept map included, how to create definitions...

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides reproducible test preparation pages. The QAR Strategy is articulated.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient learning strategy. Students will learn how to use acronyms as a study tool.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about the importance of cooperation. Students will learn strategies to help students work together as a team.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient learning strategy. Students will learn the importance of using a planner to help track assignments and upcoming tests.

Contains a lesson plan that looks at the relationship between the Corps of Discovery and the Dakota Nation. Includes hyperlinks for supplementary information, links to national standards, and teaching strategies. From PBS.

A great site for a lesson plan looking at the geography of where the Dakota Sioux lived and the impact on their way of life brought about by the Corps of Discovery. Online resources are provided as well as lesson plans, teaching...

Duke University has established the Center for Inquiry-Based Learning. It serves to enhance math and science lessons. Click on Resources for good examples of Inquiry-based lesson plans.

This module provides strategies to use with informational text. Teachers will explicitly teach students about graphic organizers to use before reading informtational texts.

Tips and strategies for helping to remember spelling.

NDT Education stresses the importance of problem solving skills. Problem solving steps and strategies are provided.

This site provides a variety of educational technology evaluation resources focused on helping schools and districts measure the role technology plays in teaching and learning. It has a great collection of relevant information on...

Using the book Farmer Duck, this lesson will take words that are unknown to students and teach students how to determine their meanings. This will help open up the world of reading to students.

This resource explores instructional practices for using think-aloud in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies classes. Think-Aloud examples are provided in both science and math. Download and print a resource...

What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...