Helpful Backup Resources

Helpful Resources for your Teacher Tool-belt

            As educators we also need resources we can reach out when in need of ideas! I've gathered some of my favorite resources, some provide free sources, others require a subscription. 

Teachers pay Teachers is exactly what it claims to be - an open marketplace for educators. If you are struggling to find passages for a standard, or need forms for your teacher binder, or even if you need vocabulary posters for your classroom, you can find it at TPT. You must create an account, but the account set up is free. However, not all the resources are free. Either this is a great resource, and it can be trusted because the documents truly come from educators doing the same thing as you! Best of all, if you are good at creating centers or documents, you can upload your ideas for sale!

Turtle Diary is another great website. The account set up is free, however if you don't want you don't have to use an account to get the resources. Turtle Diary provides various videos for ELA, Math, and science. Along with videos it provides worksheets and interactive games for students. I've used this website mainly for the videos, it has great videos on life cycles, carrying with grouping, vowels, and much more. I've provided an example of one their videos. The videos are great for an introduction to a lesson. 

One last resource I'd like to share is Super Teacher Worksheets, as you can tell by the name super teacher is a collection of worksheets. Although for access to all of the worksheets you must pay a subscription fee. There are many free worksheets for different skills though. I personally use super teacher to get an idea of worksheets, I have created many worksheets myself based on the layout and content of the super teacher worksheets. I have also used some of the worksheets for homework or small group work. 

Other General Resources

Read Works: http://www.readworks.org/ 

Tumble Books: https://www.tumblebooks.com/ 

Story Line online: http://www.storylineonline.net/ 

Reading A-Z:https://www.readinga-z.com/ 

History for kids: http://www.historyforkids.net/

Science Kids: http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/

Discovery Education: http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/