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Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts Indiana Academic Standards Resources for English/Language Arts This Web site contains online tools for teachers to use in aligning classroom instruction and assessment to Indiana’s Academic Standards.

Indiana Reading Lists

Taken from the Indiana Academic Standards website for English/Language Arts

Children’s Book Awards

The most comprehensive guide to English-language children's book awards on the Internet

ReadWriteThink
...a site providing access to succesful practices, lesson plans, and resources in reading and language arts instruction

Literature Circles

NCTE The National Council of Teachers of English is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education Supporting Critical Conversations in the Classroom Critical conversations are important because they highlight diversity and difference while calling attention to the nature and role of literacy in our society. Paper written by -Editor: Jerome C. Harste, Satellite Group Members: Vivian Vasquez, Mitzi Lewison, Amy Breau, Christine Leland, Anne Ociepka Read to Feed – a program of Heifer International A reading motivation/service learning program. Children are inspired to read more books for pleasure, while raising money, through sponsored reading, to help end world hunger and improve the environment.

Language Arts Cyberguides
...supplementary units based on works of literature, designed for students to use with the Web

Booktalks : Quick and Simple
a database of over 300 short booktalks for introducing items to students

BookAdventure: Book Finder
an easy way to help students develop a list of reading suggestions from this database of over 6000 titles Children's Literature Web Guide
a guide to resources for teachers, parents, authors & storytellers

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
rated reviews, curriculum integration, and themes of how to use children's lit in the classroom

Children's Picture Book Database
a keyword-searchable database of over 4000 picture books; includes abstracts, subject classification, and Web links Houghton Mifflin Education Place : Reading/Language Arts Center
...links to activities, children's books, literacy information, and professional resources Readers' Theater or Readers' Theatre
...a well-done set of links to scripts, ideas, and resources for this type of reading activity

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