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The First Year

Essays on the author's experiences in her first year of teaching: the mistakes she made, what she learned from them, and how she used them to become a better teacher — and how other first-year teachers can, too.

Format: book (multiple pages)

Sita walks with hermit (Thai Ramayana mural)

Sita walks through the forest with a hermit in this mural detail from the Emerald Buddha Temple. The crowned Sita walks with her right hand bent across her chest. She follows just behind a moutached hermit who carries a walking stick and a palm leaf fan. They...

Format: image/photograph

Reading behaviors

In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.4

A blank sheet of paper or blank running record sheet, a pencil, and a carefully selected text are all the materials needed to capture a student's reading behaviors. The reading behaviors — including the student's physical actions such as eye and hand...

By Jeanne Gunther.

The Raleigh Standard protests conscription

In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 4.2

Newspaper editorial protesting the expansion of conscription by the Confederate government in January 1864. Includes historical commentary and background on conscription in the Civil War.

Format: newspaper

Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.

Templates to help you with paperwork

In The First Year, page 1.2

Templates for a parent contact log, discipline log, multipurpose log, sub plan, in-school-suspension plan, IEP notebook, grade book, and locker log.

By Kristi Johnson Smith.

Resources on the web

Writing poetry with rebus and rhyme

This ReadWriteThink lesson uses Jean Marzollo's book I Love You: A Rebus Poem (Scholastic, 2000) as a model to use rebus writing to create wonderful poetry; however, any of the rebus books included on the accompanying book list would be appropriate... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink