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Find short articles for professional learning communities, Socratic Seminars, professional development, staff, vertical-teaming and grade-level meetings. Many offer free Webinars with famous authors. Click on the name of the site to learn more. I recommend joining these FREE Web sites and/or email services: **[|LikeToRead.com]** My site: explanation of each proficient reader strategy and over 130 lessons.. Also, a book list is available for further study. **[|LikeToWrite.com]** - My Site: FREE writing lesson plans and units in PDF format. Interactive notebooks (daybooks ) and reflection activities. **[|LikeToWrite Facebook]** Karen posts one idea to use in school or to think about every day. The site brings authors and teachers together.
 * 1) FREE [|Units] for any subject any grade level match the common core from Kentucky. Check this out!
 * 2) FREE [|INFORMATIONAL TEXT LESSON PLANS]: Common Core Teaching and Learning Strategies: **Informational Standards K-5**, draft from Illinois. Just the graphic organizers in the back are worth the peek.
 * 3) FREE [|READING LITERATURE LESSON PLANS] Common Core Teaching and Learning Strategies: **Literature Standards** **K-5**, draft from Illinois.
 * 4) Free [|PLANBOOK online] - with Common Core Standards - PlanbookEdu. Added 4/10/13.
 * 5) [|FREE CLIPART] FOR SCHOOL!
 * 6) [|ASCD SmartBrief] Short bits emailed weekly keeping you up to date on education issues in the news.
 * 7) [|The Book Whisperer] Blog about books and classroom issues.
 * 8) [|Choice Literacy]Fabulous site to learn about teaching strategies. Go to the site and get plenty of things free. Or - join for $99 a year and get videos of Aimee Buckner, Debbie Miller, Janet Allen, The Sisters and more, featured articles, book recommendations and more to use in PD or PLCs.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Choice Literacy Big Fresh] Brenda Powers emails a column and featured suggestions to you every Saturday.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Education Week] Keep up to date with weekly summaries and links for further reading emailed to you.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Education Week Teacher] Teacher trends emailed to you weekly in a short, linked format.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|fear.less] Weekly newspaper and monthly magazine emailed to you. Brief, thoughtful blog helps readers face their fears and move beyond the roadblocks.
 * 13) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Literacy Head] - Reading and writing using visual arts. Free membership and pay for membership.
 * 14) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Get Something For Nothing] Free resources for teachers, which will be especially helpful with tight budgets next year.
 * 15) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Reading Next:]Although the report is for middle and high school readers, I quote data from this source to support "best-practice" reading instruction. Take a look at the statistics on the teaching that matters. PDF format you can download.
 * 16) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Stenhouse]- blog, one page is devoted to listing authors and their websites.
 * 17) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="gmw_">[|Edinformatics] Education Directories from lessons to Internet Resources to Parent Pages to...you name it!
 * 18) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|What Ed Said] Weekly blog, often in a top-10 format: 10 reflective writing ideas or 10 ways to collaborate. Short, easy reads right on the money and perfect for PD or PLCs.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Links work as of 5/27/13