New Jersey Testing Internet Based Resources

A good resource for NJ Teachers is located at The South Jersey Academy Site- http://southjerseyacademy.com  There are multiple resources and links especially for NJ educators.

Rubrics

Rubric star is an Excellent resource for Building rubrics quickly and easily. It’s URL is http://rubistar.4teachers.org

Language Arts/Writing

Persuasive Writing

• This site link leads to an entire page of resources for persuasive writing, even “Plug and Play” lessons.  http://southjerseyacademy.com/academy/persuasive.htm

• http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/searchengine.cgi?SEARCH=Persuasion+or+Pursuasive&WORD_POINTS=0,1,0,0

• http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/propagan.htm

• http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/view/convince.html

• http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang25.txt

• Writing Outline

General Language Arts/ Writing

• Interactive Resources - http://southjerseyacademy.com/new%20webpages%20to%20upload/Interactivelessons.htm

• Reading Resources -http://southjerseyacademy.com/academy/readrec.htm

• Writing resources - http://southjerseyacademy.com/academy/Writing.htm

• Speaking Resources - http://southjerseyacademy.com/academy/speakres.htm

• Media Resources - http://southjerseyacademy.com/academy/mediares.htm

• Read/Write/Think: Great Language Arts resource -http://www.readwritethink.org/

• Fun Interactive Tools - http://southjerseyacademy.com/new%20webpages%20to%20upload/Interactivelessons.htm

Younger Children

• Children’s story books online http://www.magickeys.com/books/

• Star Fall Interactive - http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/play.htm?f

• ABC Match http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/abcmatch/

• Alphabet Organizer - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/alphabet/

• Picture Match - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/

• What’s in the bag - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/in_the_bag/index.html

• Word build and bank - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordbuild/

• Word family sort - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordfamily/

• Great Lessons by Grade http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp?grade=0&strand=0&engagement=0

• Graphic Organizers for Writing

• Animal Inquiry - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/animal-inquiry/

•  Circle Plot Diagram - http://readwritethink.org/materials/circle-plot/

• Drama Map - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/dramamap/

• Persuasive Map - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/

• Webbing Tool http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=127&title=

• Story Map - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/index.html

Related Lesson Plans  

• Can You Convince Me?: Developing Persuasive Writing

• Memories Matter: The Giver and Descriptive Writing Memoirs

• Critical Literacy: Point of View

•  Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities Between Writing and Art

• The Orphan Trains

• Egyptian Hierolyphics

• Expository Escapade—Detective’s Handbook

• She Did What? Revising for Connotation