TEACHER TOOLS
 
Use free tools to develop classroom materials, lesson plans, and activities.

Anticipation Guides
 
  • Anticipation Guide
    Learn how to create and use an anticipation guide. Greece, NY, Central School District

 
Assessment and Evaluation
 

 
Book Clubs
 
  • Book Clubs Resource
    Guide to book clubs and groups with a collection of valuable links. Book Clubs Resource
  • Café Book
    A list of popular and current YA books to use for a teen book club. Central Rappahannock, VA, Regional Library
  • DearReader.com
    An email book club with a link for teen books. DearReader.com
  • Literary Book Club
    An example of an online book chat organized by a school district. Fayette County, KY, Public Schools
  • Online Book Club for Kids
    A different book is selected each semester and includes weekly questions, summaries, and responses. K. Motsinger (Community Consolidated School District 89. IL)
  • Ready Sit Read!
    A book club with monthly reading lists by age, tips for starting a club, starter discussion questions, and more. Target
  • Starting a Book Club
    Tips for starting a book club, book choice ideas, role of the discussion leader, and sample discussion questions. Seattle Public Library
  • Universal Questions
    A list of questions that can be used with any book. Multnomah County, OR, Public Library

 
Book Making
 
  • Flip Book
    Create a simple flip book online to print.     Read Write Think

 
Book Plates
 
  • Book Plates
    Several hundred book plates in different sizes to print out.  Anne Fine
  • Bookplates
    Illustrations include kids, kittens, and lighthouses.  Activity Village

 
Book Raps
 
  • Book Rap Course
    An online course for using book raps in the classroom.  Cherrol McGhee
  • Book Raps
    Learn how     to conduct a book discussion via electronic mail with individuals or groups of students from across the country or around the world.  RITE Group

 
Book Reports/Reviews
 
  • Biography File Folder Report
    Create a file folder for a famous person. Includes three different report formats: an important book, timeline, and public speaking monologue. Redmond, OR, School District
  • Book Jacket
    Create a book jacket. Redmond, OR, School District

  • Book Report Menu
    Answer questions from the appetizers, main dishes, side dishes, and/or desserts sections of the menu. Teachers Lounge
  • Cereal Box Report
    Use a cereal box format to report on a book. Includes patterns. Redmond, OR, School District
  • Flip Book Report
    Create a flip book for a book report.     Redmond, OR, School District
  • Memory Bag
    Focus on story elements using story-related objects. Redmond, OR, School District
  • Scrapbook Page
    Focus on story elements using a scrapbook pattern. Redmond, OR, School District
  • Windsock
    Focus on story elements using a windsock pattern.     Redmond, OR, School District

 
Book Review Development
 

 

Bookmarks
 
  • Bookmark Collection
    Lots of bookmarks to print out and/or color. Includes a template.  Family Education
  • Bookmark Maker
    Select a slogan and picture and create your own bookmark.  Teach-nology
  • Bookmarks
    Links to numerous bookmarks including holidays and animals.  abcteach
  • Bookmarks
    Create and decorate these bookmarks and use them to write unfamiliar words.      Dositey Corporation
  • Bookmarks
    Bookmarks to color or print out and laminate.  Anne Fine
  • Bookmarks
    Bookmarks to print and color.  Billy Bear 4 Kids
  • Bookmarks
    Nameplates that can be converted to bookmarks.  A to Z Teacher Stuff
  • Bookmarks
    Colorful bookmarks promoting reading.  Alphabet Soup
  • Bookmark
    "Reading Makes the Holidays Bright" Gale
  • Paper Bookmarks
    Instructions for setting up a bookmark template using Word.  Personal Computer Tutor

 
Booktalks
 
  • Booktalk PowerPoint
    Techniques and criteria for developing booktalks. Marinette, WI, School District
  • Booktalk Rubric
    Rubric for rating booktalks including a list of content elements. American Embassy School-New Delhi
  • The BookTalker
    Booktalks of the latest literature for teens.     Dr. Joni Richards Bodart
  • Booktalking Colorado
    Full length booktalks on current and classic titles with a focus on middle school students.
  • Bookwinks
    Video booktalk podcasts on various topics for grades 3-8. Sonja Cole
  • Rah-Rah Reading!
    An article by Ellen Thompson with techniques for preparing a booktalk. Scholastic

 
Bulletin Boards
 

 
Games and Puzzles
 
  • Classroom Game Templates
    Templates for numerous games including Concentration, Jeopardy, Hollywood Squares, Family Feud, Pyramid, Wheel of Fortune, Deal or No Deal, Weakest Link, and more. Murray, GA, Public Schools
  • Fun-n-Games
    Templates for numerous games including Concentration, Jeopardy, Hollywood Squares, Family Feud, and Pyramid. K. Rasmussen

  • Jeopardy Game
    Create and download a Powerpoint game with music.  Hilsborough Township, NJ, School District

  • Personal Educational Press
    Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser.  Personal Educational Press

  • Puzzler Maker
    Create 10 different puzzles from letter tiles to crossword puzzles to mazes. School Discovery

  • Twenty Questions
    Create and download a Powerpoint game.  Hilsborough Township, NJ, School District
  • Undercover
    Create and download a Powerpoint game.  Open Review Games to access. Radford, VA, City Schools
  • The Weakest Link Game
    Create and download a Powerpoint game with music. Hilsborough Township, NJ, School District
  • Word Search Maker
    Create a word search using a larger font and fewer words for younger children.     Teach-nology
  • Word Turtle
    Create a word search puzzle online to print out.  Funbrain

 
General Tools
 

 
Graphic Organizers
 
  • Graphic Organizers
    Printable graphic organizers to use when reading a novel. Oak Park, IL, Elementary School
  • Graphic Organizers
    Printable graphic organizers that support specific thinking skills organized by purpose. Somers Central, NY, School District
  • Graphic Organizers 6-8
    Thirty+ organizers to help older students organize their ideas and notes. Houghton Mifflin
  • Story Elements
    Printable organizers include plot, character analysis, setting, and sequence. Scholastic
  • Venn Diagram
    Create an interactive Venn diagram.     Read Write Think
Literature Circles
 
  • Literary Lessons
    Description and example of ways of conducting a literature circle with handouts, activities, and graphic organizers. Laura Chandler
  • Literature Circles in High School
    Strategies for using literature circles with middle and high school students. Includes handouts, role sheets, and a suggest book list. Cindy Adams

 
Publishing Student Writing on the Web
 Before publishing writing by children on the web, it is imperative that you read information about student privacy on the Federal Trade Commission website

Links to online publishing resources for by young authors.

  • KidPub
    One of the oldest on the web. Requires small one-time fee to publish.

  • KidsBookShelf
    Publishes original poems, and short stories of no more than 1,000 words.

  • KidsWWwrite
    Publishes writing by young authors online in an e-zine 10 times a year.

  • Stone Soup
    Publishes children’s writing to age 13 on the web.

  • Storybook
    Online publishing with several categories for writing.
  • Student Book Publishing Programs
     Studentreasures
    Company binds a class book (free) and individual books (small fee).

 
Puppet and Flannel Board Patterns
 
  • Felt Board Patterns
    Patterns include a chicken, rabbit, elephant, sheep, and fish.     Sunny Hollow Press
  • Felt Story Board
    Instructions for creating a felt story board and includes felt patterns.     Billy Bear

 
Quizzes and Tests
 

  • Easy Test Maker
     Free online test generator creates multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. Easy Test Maker

  • QuizStar
    Create quizzes to take online. University of Kansas

  • Trackstar
     Organize and annotate websites for use in online lessons and activities. Trackstar

 
Reader's Theater
 
  • Reader's Theater
    A wealth of reader's theater resources - from how and why to do it and sample scripts. Busy Teachers Cafe

 
Reading Certificates and Awards
 
  • Certificate Maker
    Create your own certificate from several categories. Certificate Maker
  • Certificates
    Fill in your information on a completed design. River Deep
  • School Express Awards
    Create dozens of different awards and certificates for reading and any subject. School Express

 
Reading Level Tools
 

  • Calculating Reading Levels
    Uses Gunning Fox Index. the Flesch Formula, and the Power Sumner Kearl formula to determine readability levels.     Tameri Guide for Writers

 
Reading Logs
 
  • My Reading Log
    Directions and forms for creating a reading log booklet. Enchanted Learning
  • Reading Log
    A blank form for listing books read. Read Write Think
  • Reading Log
    A blank form for listing books read. Busy Teacher's Cafe
  • Reading Log
    A graphic log documenting minutes read. King County Library System, WA
  • Reading Log Form
    A log for each book read to be completed online. Episcopal School, PA
  • Reading Logs
    A collection of color and black and white forms. Country Clip Art
  • Student Reading Log
    A log documented on an Excel spreadsheet with instructions for use. U46Teachers
  • Themed Reading Logs
    A collection that documents titles read and time read.     ADHD of the Christian Kind

 
Reading Promotion
 

  • Get Caught Reading
    A nationwide campaign to remind people of all ages how much fun it is to read. Site includes downloadable celebrity posters and graphics. American Association of Publishers

 
  • Shelf Talkers
    A collection of shelf talkers promoting authors, titles, and subjects. Ingram

 

 
Trading Card Creators

 
Web Blogs
 

  • Blogger
    Easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts about books and interact with others. Google

 
Worksheet Generators
 

  • Hot Potatoes
    Create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the web. University of Victoria

  • Worksheet Generator
     Create dozens of worksheets: blanks with word bank, blanks with no word bank, fill in the blank, matching, mix up, multiple choice, word scramble, and word chop. Discovery School

 
Linda's Links to Literature assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of materials found at each link. Checking the accuracy and suitability of all materials before using them with students is recommended. 
All links were current at the time posted. There is no guarantee that the materials found at these links will be available at any given time.
Reporting broken links is greatly appreciated.

 
Updated 7/30/08