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California Language Arts Contents Standards
The California Language Arts Content Standards represent a strong consensus on the skills, knowledge, and abilities all students should be able to master at specific grade levels during the school thirteen-year career.
California Standards for the Teaching Profession
This standards guideline was developed to help teachers define and develop their professional roles.
Content Standards for California Public Schools, K- 12
Content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education are available in electronic PDF or HTML versions.
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards works to strengthen the teaching profession and to improve student learning in America's schools.
National Council for the Social Studies National Standards
The Council provides a Standards and Position Statement and an abbreviated version of Expectations of Excellence. The standards are available for purchase through this site.
NCTE/IRA Standards for English Language Arts
The list of 12 standards that offer guidance for the opportunities and resources students should have in order to to develop the language skills they need.
TEAMS provides links to standards and assessments, testing and instruction, and test-taking strategies.
State Standard Resources from TEAMS
Click on your state to find the standard resources you need.
Click on the map to find the educational content standards for any one of the United States.
The American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island
Search passenger lists from ships bringing over 22 million immigrants to the U.S. between 1892 and 1924. Look at family scrapbooks or research the immigrant experience.
Manuscripts from 1936- 1940 Federal Writer's Project.
Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. Learn about America's past and immigrants' ancestors through games and activities.
This is the companion site to a PBS series on family history and genealogy. The site includes resources for beginning research along with printable family tree charts to fill out.
Author Resources for Karen Hesse
A number of links about award-winning author, Karen Hesse.
Free reading motivation program for K-8 students. Students select their interests and the site will generate a personalized booklist at their reading level. Also included are over 5,400 multiple choice quizzes to check for student comprehension.
California Museum of Photography: Ellis Island Photographs: 1900-1920
A wonderful collection of photographs from Ellis Island are available at this site.
TEAMS has compiled resources of poetry for children.
Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures
Find essays, collaborative bibliographies, teaching materials, educational issues, and Web resources in this collection compiled and maintained by the Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS) at Georgetown University's American Studies Program.
This electronic field trip teaches about the patterns and historical forces behind immigration. Five unit lessons support the use of the Internet and library resources. Other resources include a list of fiction and nonfiction books and examples of student projects.
Lesson plans designed for a 5th grade unit in which students create a 4-generation family tree, keep a journal, create a family crest, and write a short autobiography.
Glossary of Terms related to Judaism
Helpful glossary of terms related to Judaism.
How Do I Become a Storyteller?
Suggestions of ways to get started from Dr. Flora Joy.
Here's a list of interview questions you can use to help you write your own story or someone else's life history.
Follow an immigrant's journey across the sea to America through each checkpoint at Ellis Island, as presented by Liberty State Park.
Immigration History Research Center
The materials in the center collections are largely the products of the immigrants and their descendants.
Immigration, the Living Mosaic
A look at the many different groups of people entering the United States from the late 1500's to the present. A timeline is included with links to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.
An Interactive Tour of Ellis Island
An immigrant goes through each step of the process in passing through Ellis Island to America, brought to you by Scholastic.
WebQuest by Donna Kowker helps students appreciate what it was like to leave their homeland and set out on an adventure to a new life in America.
Numerous resources to understand more about Judaism.
Learning About Immigration Through Oral History
This site was developed to give students the experience of oral history and to appreciate the process of historiography. Also included is information on the importance of oral history and guidelines for putting together an oral history project.
Map resources from National Geographic.
Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, CA
This Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum has provided many resources for the classroom.
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
This large map collection includes historical maps.
This non-denominational, informational web site provides historical background and readable access to established laws that protect this right.
Tips for Researching Ancestors Who Immigrated
Ideas to help you find out more about your ancestors and when they immigrated.
Using Oral History: Lesson Overview
This unit provides resources to teach history through oral histories and includes teacher materials, student lesson and primary source sets.
Find information on current and upcoming exhibits, see the online exhibitions and explore the Holocaust Learning Center.
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California Language Arts SCORE Project
Resources, such as lesson plans, literature collections, assessment, portfolios, standards, and more, for language arts instruction based on the California framework.
California Reading Association
California teachers' professional reading association.
Search with the Web Weasel through this incredible wealth of resources by subject or grade level. You will find educational resources and more at this site sponsored by CollegeView.
Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literature
Resources to help you teach American Literature including essays, teaching material, and bibliographies.
General Language Arts Resources
Helpful resources from TEAMS.
International Reading Association
Language Arts teachers from around the world hold membership in this association. Publishes a monthly journal at each grade level which includes recommended books in all categories as well as professional articles.
National Council for the Social Studies
Professional resources and information for those who teach history/ social studies.
National Council of Teachers of English
Professional organization of English/Language Arts teachers. Publishes monthly journals including Language Arts for PreK-5, Voices from the Middle for 6-8, and the English Journal for 9-15. Each magazine contains professional articles and recommended books.
Professional Development Resources
A collection of professional organizations and conferences relevant to language arts educators.
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A bimonthly magazine pubished by the American Library Association. It is designed for teachers and other adults interested in connecting children with books. A valuable resource!
Booklists and Book Awards from TEAMS
TEAMS provides access to numerous booklists of award-winning titles and recommended reading.
Sponsored by the National Council for the Social Studies these books are honored for their treatment of topics related to ethnic minorities and race relations sensitively and accurately.
The history of the awards and information on the award winning books and their authors.
Children’s Literature Publications
These links refer you to publishers, booklists, and more from McGraw Hill Companies.
The History of the Newbery Awards
The history of the awards and information on the award winning books and their authors.
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Return to topAleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin (1799- 1837)
A biographical essay from the Author's Calendar.
A Collection of Poems by Aleksandr Pushkin
Translated from Russian and presented by Edward Bonver's Poetry Lover's Page.
Biographical information is contained here.
Here you will find a short biography and the text of some of Pushkin's works in Russian and translations in English.
Short Poems by Alexander Pushkin
Translated poems in English indexed by year and alphabetically by title and first lines.
Return to topArticles on Portfolios and Assessment
This list of available resources is from the Campus Writing Program library at Indiana University.
A well-worded explanation of the purposes and types of portfolios from Temple University.
New Mexico Regional Technology Assistance Program provides these benchmark rubrics to help score student portfolios.
ERIC presents a look at computer-based electronic portfolios.
Portfolios for Assessment and Instruction
Power Point presentation by Roger Farr with helpful information.
Portfolios for Assessment and Instruction
This article from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) discusses the purposes and uses of portfolios.
Ways to help students organize their own notebooks into portfolios.
Letters from Rifka Index
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