IRA Effective Literacy Website #3:The Teacher's Corner
The Teacher's Corner is not exclusively
a literacy website. However, I feel that its features focus on literary
resources. The website offers printable worksheets, lesson plans, seasonal
items, bulletin board items, thematic units and other teacher resources. The
more I explored the website, the more I knew I wanted to share it with others.
Not only do I want to share the website as a resource to all teachers but the
story behind the website is an inspiring one that needs sharing.
The website promotes literacy in many ways. The
website offers a “maker” features for making crossword puzzles, word searches,
word scrambles, CLOZE passages, and other kinds of word puzzle worksheets.
There are also writing prompts organized by month and grade level which can be
used daily, monthly, as an “after you’re done” activity, for substitute
teachers, or any time. There are so many Reading and Language Arts lesson plans
available. There is so much great material on this website that it will take
weeks to thoroughly look through it and any teacher from any grade and any
content can pull lessons and activities from it throughout the entire school
year.
The Teacher’s Corner is run by a husband and
wife team who turned a hobby site into a full-time job. Jennifer Jensen is an
elementary teacher and started the website to provide links to other teacher resources.
Eventually her husband, Chad, jumped on board when they decided to start creating
their own resources for teachers. Their story is inspiring because they understand
the plight of teachers wanting to provide the best lessons and strategies for
their students but not being able to afford to pay much for them or pay at all.
Even with the ups and downs that come with being a small and free website they
have endured and grown in resources and popularity since their humble
beginnings in 1996. Only educators would do all the work to create and compile
all these resources and give it away to other educators for free. It inspires
me to share their website with others and continue sharing resources that I
have found and created with others.
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